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Originally posted by: GundarkHunterQuote
Originally posted by: Rebel Scumb
I have yet to like a movie where an actor who is not retarded played a retarded person.
What about What's Eating Gilbert Grape? All opinions about DiCaprio's other work aside, I thought he did an excellent job in this one.
Good point. I forgot about WEGG (to be honest I have no beef with DiCaprio as an actor). I'm sure there a few others as well, its just that there's such a fine line between acting like you're mentally challenged, and just imitating it for laughs. Personally it doesn't seem to be all that tough an act to pull off, but maybe thats me.
Even some of the best performances of this kind like Sean Penn in I AM SAM don't really seem all that differnet then some kid at school saying "hey look at me I'm a retard". Does that make any sense?