What IS De Niro's best role?

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This is tough.

De Niro won Best Actor for Raging Bull. The thing is, I'm not really sure people connect De Niro with that performance. Most people today have probably never even seen it. And every time they discuss Raging Bull, all they talk about is his weight gain transformation.
He won a Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather Part 2. And he was great.

But for me, I think his best role has to be Taxi Driver. Not only was he amazing in that role, but Taxi Driver is often cited as a performance that inspired so many other actors.

I do love his performance in The Deer Hunter, and even in Mean Streets.

I think a lot of people praise other movies he's done because the movies themselves were good, but I don't think De Niro was particularly special (Goodfellas, Casino...etc)

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Travis Bickle is one of the most uncomfortable characters ever...he was always a threat and harmless weirdo how DeNiro played him

Tracis Bickle
Vito corleone
Jimmy conway
Jake Lamotta
Max Cady*

his mt rushmore

 

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[Wise]

How has nobody mentioned this?

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

How has nobody mentioned this?

Over the top deniro.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Deniro was hilarious and fantastic in Mean Streets.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

How has nobody mentioned this?

This was better than his raging bull, i’m glad you mentioned it. I forget cape fear way too much.



this is so incredibly creepy and juliette lewis deserves her flowers for this performance too

 

[Zero]

This was better than his raging bull, i’m glad you mentioned it. I forget cape fear way too much.

Ain't no way breh

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

This Boy's Life

An underrated role. He was funny af in that movie.

 

[Peter Popoff]

I’ll say Raging Bull, with his performances in Taxi Driver & The King of Comedy trailing behind closely. Prime De Niro had a hell of a run.

Wholeheartedly agree with these 3. It brings out a complexity to his role in thespianism.

With Pacino, I gotta go with Any Given Sunday, Scarface and Heat.

 

[ORDER_66]

An underrated role. He was funny af in that movie.

MAn he was dog whipping the shyt outta Leo for no reason in that movie...

And Ellen barkin was looking hot ASF in that too I was happy she got him with the bat...

 

[Ukbrotha]

Taxi driver and King of comedy.

Also loved him in Goodfellas, Godfather 2 and also thought he was great in the Analyze this movies.

I also realise I'm struggling to separate my feeling for the movie and my feeling for his performance.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

MAn he was dog whipping the shyt outta Leo for no reason in that movie...

And Ellen barkin was looking hot ASF in that too I was happy she got him with the bat...

What about me?!


When he thought he was jamming on that sax

 

[re'up]

Hard to rate solely on performance, but for me it's Heat.

The isolation, paranoia, ruthlessness, discipline, vulnerability of falling in love, even in silent scenes, coming home, putting the pistol on the table, and staring out the window. The infamous coffee shop scene, how he is almost smiling the whole time.

I liked doing this with Pacino, just watching all his roles, and seeing the evolution, devolution sometimes, and just the pure pleasure of his acting, even in less than great movies, like "Two For The Money", or just absolute garbage like "88 Minutes".

 

[I love Latina women]

The Deer Hunter

Because The Deer Hunter was more like a documentary than it was an actual movie.