Matt Damon as Colin Sullivan talking to Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in a movie theater in The Departed
Jack Nicholson is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all-time, and for good reason. Jackson was a quintessential part of the “New Hollywood” movement at the end of the 1960s that saw the industry turning to more eccentric and artistic projects that pushed up against more conservative sensibilities.
9 ‘The Missouri Breaks’ Directed by Arthur Penn The Missouri Breaks was a deliberately old-fashioned western released in an era when the genre was risking becoming irrelevant due to a series of financial and critical disappointments. While it was Marlon Brando who played the lead role of an aging gunslinger, Nicholson played the critical part of a young robber who gets in trouble when he and his friends attempt to seize a train as part of an armed assault.
Nicholson has a knack for playing utterly unlikeable characters, and he does a great job at playing a sexist jerk who uses his intelligence to mask how cruel he actually is. Although it was released in an era where these sorts of counterculture films were seen as game changers, the foresight that Carnal Knowledge had on gender dynamics, educational reform, and mental health issues makes it one of the most underrated films of Nicholson’s career.
Even though Michael Keaton’s performance as Batman was ahead of its time, a majority of the film focuses on the Joker, and adds an interesting new backstory as to how he became the crazed criminal that he is. Although Mark Hamill, Heath Ledger, Joaquin Phoenix, Barry Keoghan, and Zack Galifinackis have all done something interesting with the character, Nicholson was worthy of cementing an important part of the legacy of one of the greatest comic book villains of all-time.
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