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I still haven't seen Blood Diamond!! I want to but I keep forgeting to go out and rent it! ahhhDohertysgirl
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I didn't really mind his accent, but I prefer him with his natural way of speaking. It was a little annoying in The Departed also, and it just interfers with his beauty and charm. 
But it also seperates Leonardo DiCaprio as a person from the character he's playing. For me, if he's playing a Rhodesean smuggler, or an undercover cop born and raised in Boston and he sounds like an actor from California it'm going to have more of a problem believing in the character. i think when an actor achieves a certain level of fame it becomes a problem because people expect to see Actor X not the character- I think Leo deals with with that well onscreen by changing his voice, his mannerisms, the way he carries himself, etc according to who he's playingDohertysgirl said:I didn't really mind his accent, but I prefer him with his natural way of speaking. It was a little annoying in The Departed also, and it just interfers with his beauty and charm.
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Yeah we just want Leo leo leo! Lol. Sorry not very cerebral but it is the truth. I have been watching the Basketball Diaries on loop for the last two months ever since Doherty's Girl lent it to me. I am sick sick.
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Can't blame you, he is all beauty in that film! Golden years. 
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Oh and the bit where Reggie is trying to get him off the heroin is soooo beautiful!
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lostgirl said:
I was talking to my friend who is from South Africa and she said that his accent is actually very true to what a Rhodesian/Zimbabwean sounds like. She was very suprised that Americans were having such an issue with it
^It is an astonishingly accurate accent when your familiar with the real thing
Anyway Leo is #5 of the Artists and Entertainers in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influentual:
Leonardo DiCaprio
By Martin Scorsese
In the early '90s, my friend Bob De Niro made a picture called This Boy's Life. He told me, "I worked with this kid. He's really good. You've got to work with him someday." The "kid" was Leonardo DiCaprio.
Then I saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape. One of the hardest things for actors to do is play someone who's mentally challenged. Very often, no matter how good they are, you can see the machinery at work. With Leo, in this performance, I didn't see the machinery. He wasn't playing the role. He had allowed the character to become a person and then to inhabit him.
I was impressed. Then when I saw him in The Basketball Diaries as Jim Carroll, in Total Eclipse as Rimbaud, as Romeo for Baz Luhrmann, as the young hero of Titanic, I realized that range wasn't an issue.
He was the actor among a generation of gifted young actors. Once he became a superstar, he had a choice. It would have been so easy for him: he could have made a comfortable home for himself in commercially viable, action-thriller roles. But he chose to go down a different, more adventurous path.
We worked together for the first time on Gangs of New York, and that was when I first witnessed his commitment to his chosen craft—a commitment that is fierce and total. Unlike many other actors, Leo will keep pushing until he breaks through to an emotional and psychological truth, no matter how ugly or childish or inexplicable.
He holds the screen, like a great silent actor. With his face, his eyes. He knows how to use them and how to use his body; he has an innate sense of how much to give and how much to hold back. I look at him, and I know he's a true actor. The camera knows it. And most important, the audience knows it.
Leo, 32, is, at heart, fiercely private. He's also responsible, in the sense that he takes his citizenship—of the world—very seriously, as seriously as he does his acting. He has used his celebrity very carefully in an effort to raise awareness, particularly among younger generations, of the environmental perils facing our planet. And like all serious artists, Leo is a passionate student. He never stops studying and learning.
The "kid" has grown up to be a man I'm proud to know and whom I feel lucky to count as a collaborator. We've made three pictures now. I can't wait until we work together again. Oscar winner Scorsese has directed more than 25 films
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616213,00.html
Anyway Leo is #5 of the Artists and Entertainers in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influentual:
Leonardo DiCaprio
By Martin Scorsese
In the early '90s, my friend Bob De Niro made a picture called This Boy's Life. He told me, "I worked with this kid. He's really good. You've got to work with him someday." The "kid" was Leonardo DiCaprio.
Then I saw What's Eating Gilbert Grape. One of the hardest things for actors to do is play someone who's mentally challenged. Very often, no matter how good they are, you can see the machinery at work. With Leo, in this performance, I didn't see the machinery. He wasn't playing the role. He had allowed the character to become a person and then to inhabit him.
I was impressed. Then when I saw him in The Basketball Diaries as Jim Carroll, in Total Eclipse as Rimbaud, as Romeo for Baz Luhrmann, as the young hero of Titanic, I realized that range wasn't an issue.
He was the actor among a generation of gifted young actors. Once he became a superstar, he had a choice. It would have been so easy for him: he could have made a comfortable home for himself in commercially viable, action-thriller roles. But he chose to go down a different, more adventurous path.
We worked together for the first time on Gangs of New York, and that was when I first witnessed his commitment to his chosen craft—a commitment that is fierce and total. Unlike many other actors, Leo will keep pushing until he breaks through to an emotional and psychological truth, no matter how ugly or childish or inexplicable.
He holds the screen, like a great silent actor. With his face, his eyes. He knows how to use them and how to use his body; he has an innate sense of how much to give and how much to hold back. I look at him, and I know he's a true actor. The camera knows it. And most important, the audience knows it.
Leo, 32, is, at heart, fiercely private. He's also responsible, in the sense that he takes his citizenship—of the world—very seriously, as seriously as he does his acting. He has used his celebrity very carefully in an effort to raise awareness, particularly among younger generations, of the environmental perils facing our planet. And like all serious artists, Leo is a passionate student. He never stops studying and learning.
The "kid" has grown up to be a man I'm proud to know and whom I feel lucky to count as a collaborator. We've made three pictures now. I can't wait until we work together again. Oscar winner Scorsese has directed more than 25 films
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100/article/0,28804,1595326_1595332_1616213,00.html
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^ I LOVE that it's written by Scorses! 
Sigh, the 'boy' has grown up.
Sigh, the 'boy' has grown up.
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THANK GOD! 
I finally saw Blood Diamond. I thought it was a great movie, and a great role that Leo played. He's always so good at playing these multi-layered characters. Such a talented actor, and actually I didn't find his accent distracting at all, I found it very believable. (Actually at some points I found myself thinking it was even sexy!)
