In Reply to: The superiority of "old"Hollywood? The greatest collection of actors and actresses AND posted by tinear on January 21, 2011 at 18:11:28:
on whether you started out with Hollywood films or films from some other source. For people born and living in non-English speaking countries with strong cinema traditions of their own, they aren't going to think first of Hollywood when they think of iconic actors and directors.
Hell, even the British are likely to be prone to think of their own actors and directors rather than Hollywood given the strength of their cinema industry at the time of the actors you named, and the British actually speak English, not american.
Here in Australia we copped both Hollywood and Pinewood, and probably got Pinewood in a much larger dose than you did in the US so our lists would tend to include some British actors as well as the Hollywood ones.
This sort of list is always culture dependent and there are other cultures besides US american. Some are even better than US american.
David Aiken
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Follow Ups
- Depends… - David Aiken 12:39:22 01/22/11 (6)
- Thanks for your perspective. But I think, depending on your generation, that you're out of - tinear 13:02:40 01/22/11 (5)
- "…but we're talking iconic stars, world-wide, aren't we?" - David Aiken 15:07:20 01/22/11 (4)
- I meant in the past. After the heyday of Pacino/DeNiro/Nicholson, - tinear 16:08:06 01/22/11 (3)
- But...those actors are all post-studio era stars. - Harmonia 14:16:00 01/24/11 (2)
- I just don't see Depardieu quite making those guys' level. Or any other actor. Heck, I'll throw in - tinear 19:10:17 01/24/11 (1)
- Making al Pachino's level? You must mean dropping to his level. - Victor Khomenko 09:48:56 01/25/11 (0)