Even at 80 years old, Robert De Niro just did something new.
In January, Robert De Niro made Academy Awards history by becoming the actor with the longest span between his first and most recent nominations—49 years since winning supporting actor forin 1975. Taking over the character of Vito Corleone from Marlon Brando, De Niro also took the torch from him, becoming the most influential actor of his generation, as well as one of the most lauded.
It’s not just that De Niro’s turn as William K. Hale, the architect of what became known as the Osage Reign of Terror, is one of his best performances in years, even decades. It’s that, at 80, the veteran actor is doing something genuinely new. One might debate how long it’s been since De Niro was as good as he is here—perhaps as recently asSend me updates about Slate special offers.
For all his scheming, though, Hale is no mastermind. His plans go awry, and his henchmen fumble even the simplest tasks: faking Henry Roan’s suicide with a bullet to the back of the head and forgetting to leave the gun, or using so much dynamite to blow up Bill and Rita Smith’s house that it shatters windows throughout the neighborhood.
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