Response 3 is a compare/contrast paper between two actors in different times. Students will watch one of the movies from the list below (years 1980 to now). After watching the actor in the more recent films listed below, the student will then choose an actor/film from an older film provided in the Film Response # 1 or 2 lists–years 1920 to 1979 (that you did not write about before) and watch that film.  The objective is to compose a paper comparing and contrasting the two actor’s acting style, and believability. You can do some brief cited research on the actors training if you would like but it is not necessary.  The important thing is to focus on what similarities or differences you see in each actor by watching each film.  Did you believe or prefer one actor to the other? Again, this is a comparison of the actors not the characters they portray and it is important we see you own reaction in the paper.  Minimum word requirement is 600 to 750 words, but feel free to expand if needed.  Research is not necessary but if you do include please cite properly!

new movies list 

Jason Sudaris: Kodachrome (2018)

Nick Robinson: Love Simon (2018)

Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds: A Quiet Place (2018)

Alex Wolff: Hereditary (2018)

Charlie Plummer: Lean on Pete (2018)

Yalitza Aparicio: Roma (2018)

Olivia Colman: The Favourite (2018)

Lucas Hedges: Ben is Back (2018), Boy Erased (2018)

Mahershala Ali: Green Book (2018)

Jeremy Allen White/Maika Monroe: After Everything (2018)

Adam Driver: BlackKlansman (2018)Marriage Story (2019)

Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant: Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)

Ed Oxenbould: Wildlife (2018)

Regina King: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Thomasin McKenzie: Leave No Trace (2018)

Rami Malek: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Claire Foy: First Man (2018)

Lady Gaga/Sam Elliott: A Star is Born (2018)

John David Washington: BlackKlansman (2018)

Elsie Fisher/Josh Hamilton: Eighth Grade (2018)

Zac Efron: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile: (2019)

Taron Egerton/Jamie Bell: Rocketman (2019)

Jimmie Fails/Jonathan Majors: The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Jessie Buckley: Wild Rose (2019)

Adam Driver:Marriage Story (2019)

Viveik Kalra: Blinded by the Light (2019)

Mindy Kaling: Late Night (2019)

Kaitlyn Dever/Beanie Feldstein: BookSmart (2019)

Dev Patel: Hotel Mumbai (2019)

Daniel Craig or Jamie Lee Curtis or Chris Evans or Ana de Armas: Knives Out (2019)

Da’Vine Joy Rudolph: Dolemite is My Name (2019)

Florence Pugh: Little Women (2019), Midsommar (2019)

Matthew Rhys: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)

Roman Griffin Davis: JoJo Rabbit (2019)

Cynthia Erivo: Harriet (2019)

Anthony Hopkins/Jonathan Pryce: The Two Popes (2019)

years 1920-1970 list

Lillian Gish: Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920)

Max Schreck: Nosferatu (1922)

Harold Lloyd: Safety Last (1923)

Charlie Chaplin:  The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Light (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940)

Buster Keaton:  The General (1927), Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928)

Janet Gaynor: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Louise Brooks: Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Pandora’s Box (1929)

Bela Lugosi: Dracula (1931)

Boris Karloff: Frankenstein (1931)

Joan Crawford: Grand Hotel (1932)

Paul Muni: I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Scarface (1932)

James Cagney: Public Enemy (1931), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), White Heat (1949)

Greta Garbo: Grand Hotel (1932), Ninotchka (1939)

Mae West: I’m No Angel (1933), She Done Him Wrong (1933)

The Marx Brothers: Duck Soup (1933), A Night at The Opera (1935)

Clark Gable:  It Happened One Night (1934), Gone With the Wind (1939)

Claudette Colbert: It Happened One Night (1934), Imitation of Life (1934), Since You Went Away (1944)

Louise Beavers: Imitation of Life (1934)

Shirley Temple: Bright Eyes (1934), The Little Colonel (1935), Heidi (1937), The Little Princess (1939)

Robert Donat: The 39th Steps (1935), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)

Fred Astaire:  Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936)

Ginger Rogers: Top Hat (1935), Swing Time (1936), Stage Door (1937), I’ll Be Seeing You (1944)

Robert Donat: The 39th Steps (1935), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)

Gary Cooper: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Katharine Hepburn: Bringing Up Baby (1938), Adam’s Rib (1949)

Errol Flynn: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Gentleman Jim (1942)

Cary Grant: Bringing Up Baby (1938), Notorious (1946)

James Stewart: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Destry Rides Again (1939)

Charles Laughton: The Hunchback of Norte Dame (1939)

John Wayne:  Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948)

Merle Oberon: Wuthering Heights (1939)

Lawrence Olivier: Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940)

Vivien Leigh: Gone With the Wind (1939)

Hattie McDaniel: Gone With the Wind (1939) Since You Went Away (1944)

Marlene Dietrich: Destry Rides Again (1939)

Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr: Of Mice and Men (1939)

Bette Davis: Dark Victory (1939), The Little Foxes (1941), Now Voyager (1942)

Joan Fontaine: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941)

Judith Anderson: Rebecca (1940)

Margaret Sullavan: The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Irene Dunne: My Favorite Wife (1940), I Remember Mama (1948)

Humphrey Bogart:  The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Ingrid Bergman: Casablanca (1942), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946)

Henry Fonda: The Grapes of Wrath (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946)

Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941), The Third Man (1949)

Agnes Moorehead: Citizen Kane (1941), Since You Went Away (1944), Johnny Belinda (1948)

Greer Garson, Teresa Wright: Mrs Miniver (1942)

Ethel Waters: Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Judy Garland: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948)

Gene Tierney: Laura (1944), Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Lena Horne: Stormy Weather (1944)

Gregory Peck: Spellbound (1945), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

Edward G. Robinson: Double Indemnity (1944), Key Largo (1948)

Lauren Bacall: To Have and Have Not (1944)

Barbara Stanwyck: Double Indemnity (1944), Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

Robert Mitchum: Out of the Past (1947)

Edmund Gwenn: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Barbara Bel Geddes: I Remember Mama (1948)

John Wayne:  Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948)

Montgomery Clift: Red River (1948), The Heiress (1949)

Jane Wyman: Johnny Belinda (1948)

Spencer Tracy: Adam’s Rib (1949)

Olivia de Havilland: The Heiress (1949)