Robert Carlyle
man, that guy's just great. So is Peter Stormare!
So we got a corpse in a car, minus a head, in a garage, take me to it - Winston Wolf, Pulp Fiction
I agree! Both are two of my favorite actors!
shareI really like how Carlyle resisted the actor's temptation to play the Hitler role over the top (eg, by not using a Central European accent or trying to match Hitler's "public speaking" voice), this made <i>his</i> Hitler all the more scary and could make it easier for some people to concentrate on the story.
sharePeter Stormare was awesome!
Robert Carlyle was okay but I really would have expected a bit more of an accent at least from that character.
In retrospect, Carlyle's passionate performance may not be up to par of Alec Guiness, Bruno Ganz's or Anothony Hopkin's, but there is one difference: the last three actors play the same characters but in his LAST days; Carlyle, on the other hand, plays the young Hitler and how his charisma, passionate (but hateful) speeches, shrewd planning and ruthlesness rose him to the cHANCELLORSHIP while many people did not pull a finger on him, except the Jounalist, the Communists and Socialists. You cannot compare Carlyle and the others as they play a different, gloomy, and humdrum phase of his life.
It is incredible how Hitler eliminated his enemies in such a short time: in just four weeks, he made a Decree and quickly crushed all opposition before turning in on the SA; Mussolini took 18 months to acheive that feat.
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I disagree, I barely see Hitler in Carlyle at all. Hitler was thin, but he wasn't that thin. Hitler was also cooly charismatic, Carlyle, unfortunately, played the part of an over-the-top lunatic, which the script called for - it's just not the most concise representation of a young Hitler.
And his moustache wasn't bushy enough. That irked me the whole film.
I agree with you, I thought Robert Carlyle was terribly miscast. I remember thinking at at the time when the film came out.
Hitler and the regime that he promoted was one of the most evil and despotic the world has ever known. In spite of that, I find it difficult to believe that Adolf Hitler behaved so consistently as an antisocial psychopath the way Carlyle played him. He was not that one dimensional.
I found it highly implausible when crowds were standing around him enraptured while he harangued them about Jewish people. Why would anybody listen to a scrawny, ugly broken record like that. The real Hitler must have had at least some small shred of charisma.
I think the best Adolf Hitler portrayal in the history of cinema and certainly the most meaningful one was played by Charlie Chaplin. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/