Robert De Niro

The two leading stars of this film, “The Intern” have benefited from comedy at some point throughout their careers. The first one, is Robert De Niro, who entered into the world of comedy back in 1999 with “Analyze This,” which became a critical and commercial success, and it earned De Niro a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. After “Analyze This,” De Niro continued pursuing and stretching his comedic prowess with “Meet the Parents” in 2000. This film also became a mass hit, both critically and commercially, and it earned him another Golden Globe nomination. After years of collaborating exclusively with Martin Scorsese, De Niro has teamed, in yet another perfect match, with director, David O. Russell. They have collaborated in Russell’s most recent projects, one of their most memorable and recent collaborations was in the comedy, “Silver Linings…

Drama Pd.3 Who’s Who: Robert De Niro Robert De Niro is an academy award winner, producer, and director. He is best known for his roles in the movies, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and The Godfather Part II. He is not only limited to just acting but voice acting as well, he played a shark in the movie, Shark Tale, in 2004. De Niro is a talented Italian American actor who plays a variety of characters in some of our favorite movies. Most people already know who this man is, and people everywhere…

In the film, Robert De Niro, a well-known actor, plays the realistic monster tremendously. De Niro’s actions time and time again in the movie display non-human characteristics to entertain the viewer. Despite James Berardinelli’s review of “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (United States, 1994)” (page. 1) , where he states “the creature seems almost the more “human “ of the two”, I personally think the monster portrays less human characteristics then Victor, as Victor shows human errors time and time…

TedTalk concerning the ideas of career anxiety and success, Alain de Botton, a respected author and philosopher, analyzed the classification of spectrum extremes in today’s capitalistic society and how it has affected our image of success. Alain found that “in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an ‘unfortunate’ — literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.” This concept of fortune was often driven by the,…

feel in your heart—your soul, the spiritual side. And you know, the worst of the two is the spiritual." Throughout Mean Streets (1973), Charlie Cappa (Harvey Keitel) places his hand above open flames over and again, as if by tormenting himself with the roaring inferno he can achieve some spiritual salvation. The same masochistic tendency can be found in Raging Bull (1980), when Jake La Motta (played by Robert De Niro) submissively takes relentless beating from his opponent yet still…

World Cinema Foundation. He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema, and has won an Academy Award, a Palme d'Or,Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award, Silver Lion, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, and DGA Awards. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt andredemption, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also notable for their depiction of…

Nouvelle vague, and lifted to an even higher level. This resulted in the presence of mystical gaze in some of Scorsese’s films, but also in characters that were not traditionally clear cut. Even though he made films which could be considered progressive for its time, his female characters are very shallow, and show very little change in comparison to the average Hollywood film. Therefore, there is the absence of the male macho gaze, when talking about the male protagonists, which was present in…

Is Robert De Niro's character in generativity, stagnation, or has he made movement from generativity to stagnation or vice versa? How do you know? What behaviors or actions lead you to your analysis? If he is generative, what types of generativity does he display (biological, caregiving, work, cultural)? (*Note: while his character is a bit out of this exact age range, it is a useful illustration.) De Niro has made movement from stagnation to generativity. At the beginning, he mentions the…

The movie, “Groundhog Day” is a successful 1993 American film that captures the interests, mind and heart of its viewers because of its astonishing, innovative, and unique storyline, and in which this requires clear mind when watching in order for it to decode and unfold its purpose and in order for it to discover how great it is. This was directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis himself and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin .It was starring by Bill Murray, Andie Macdowell and Chris…

The movie, Bourne Supremacy, is the second movie in the Bourne series, which is directed by Paul Greengrass. The Bourne series is packed full of intense action and thrilling chase scenes that keep you intrigued at all times and Bourne Supremacy is an example of the outstanding and compelling storyline that goes throughout the series. Matt Damon is the lead role as Jason Bourne, an ex-CIA assassin that got out of the system and is trying to remember who he really is, because he has psychogenic…