Martin Scorsese

I chose Martin Scorsese as one of the most important directors of American Cinema history because he has a very original style of film; the main topics his movies are about, is gangsters and mafia; like the GoodFellas film or Taxi Driver, both with Robert De Niro, who thanks Scorsese for making of him the actor he is nowadays.

Scorsese had never won an Oscar, although all his great movies that are ranked in the top 100 movies of all history, it was until The Departed (2007) when one of his movies won the Academy Award for best film of the year, something that sounded more like a recognition of his career than anything else.

At 1989 he made a controversial film about Christ, named The Last Temptation of Christ, which was forbidden in many countries such as Mexico. The movie gives a vision of Jesus as a human that does love and is able to hate also; that thinks of temptation and passion like any other human being.

It is said that Scorsese defined the state of american cinema during the 70's and 80's. Because of his childhood beeing raised in Little Italy, NY, he got this influence which provided the scence and inspiration that nowadays is very known for.

His latest film is called " Shutter Island " and its based on the horror/thriller novel by the same name of the movie. It's going to change the way we see him now as an evolved director who doesn't only shoots american gangster movies but without caring the theme of the movie, you'll get to see why scorsese is god for

I like Scorsese's style, he is very classy, and he has a special touch that spreads in all his movies; I can tell he was the guilty on introducing the gangster concept as the way we now know it. Eventough he's getting older by the years, the film industry will always be glad to have him among the best directors of all times.

Romeo, a better man.

Romeo is a character of one of the most acclaimed masterpieces in Drama history. It's based on William Shakespeare's novel and its the main character along Juliet. Although he is a teenager, the way he manages to deal with ''grown up stuff'' makes him take mature decision and shows how everybody no matter what age they are, how they can get more earth centered and fight for your dreams without beeing stop by people's prejudices.

He is my favorite character in this tragic novel and inspite of beeing written almost 500 years ago, keeps fresh the idea of the values of the individuality in a person who's strong enough to fight and get what he wants no matter what.

Christian Bale

Who's Christian Bale? For most of the people is an english actor and it's recently known for his acting roles as Batman and John Connor in the latest Terminator Saga. For me, it's my favorite actor.

Bale started acting at a young age, he starred in Spielberg's ''Empire of the sun" at the age of 13, and then he just popped in the film industry by appearing in more movies.

His ability of really getting in to a character is what really impressed me when i saw his films. When portraying the serial killer yet successfully Manhattan executive in the film American Psycho, Bale worked out and even tanned to really look like the novel describes character Patrick Bateman with his Olympian physique. In Equilibrium he perfectioned his serious face and even learned karate to master the fight sequences in the film. But one of his major commitments on a film I would say has to be in The Machinist , because he had to loose weight in order to portray the unbalanced character Trevor Reznik to later become Bruce Wayne and get Batman's buff physique by regaining his weight lost and working out.

Christian is a serious actor but his ability of making psychological thrillers more exiting is what makes it more spicy for my taste, adding this little extra on the films. All of the movies i previously said are my favorites ones but not forgetting one of my " Top 10 favorite movies'' The prestige where he shares credits with Hugh Jackman and America's sexiest women : Scarlett Johansson.

He will always be popular remembered by blockbusters films such as Batman, but for me as a person and role model that seriously commits on what he wants without starring on not that popular films but still enjoying what he's doing, making it my favorite actor.

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