The biography, or biopic, is an evergreen movie genre–Hollywood by no means will get uninterested in based-on-a-true-story films about well-known folks, and neither do audiences, apparently. Two of those kinds of movies–Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro–dominated the 2024 Oscar nominations, with Oppenheimer incomes probably the most nods of any movie this 12 months.
Casting an actor to play an actual, well-known individual can typically be a reasonably tall activity. We like to get hung up on the look of the individual, typically on the expense of the substance, which is unlucky as a result of fairly often the proper individual for the job does not essentially look proper for the half at first look. On the opposite hand, generally you’ve got any person like Austin Butler, who seems a lot like the actual Elvis Presley that his efficiency in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis felt like a CGI fever dream the primary time I noticed the trailer. But that film labored as a result of Butler truly delivered a wonderful efficiency on prime of simply trying proper for the half.
My level? Looks aren’t every part. But they are something–you do not often need your actor to not be recognizable because the individual they’re enjoying, except that is the precise objective of the casting. Such as with Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, during which six totally different actors performed Bob Dylan. But most biographical movies aren’t fairly as creatively formidable as that.
With that mentioned, let’s check out a number of the most notable biopic movies, and evaluate the seems of their stars with the actual folks they had been portraying of their respective movies, beginning with this 12 months’s Oscar frontrunners.
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