J. Edgar

Leonardo DiCaprio is one of my favorite actors. In J. Edgar DiCaprio captured Clint Eastwood’s persona but not the depth of J. Edgar Hoover’s homosexual tensions with his companion Clyde Tolson or fully his subservient relationship with his mother. Had DiCaprio’s talent in J. Edgar been utilized as well as it had been in The Aviator in which DiCaprio portrayed Howard Hughes, it would be difficult for me to pick between him and Brad Pitt in Moneyball for an award as best actor. Overall, Clint Eastwood directed J. Edgar well as he had done in Changeling with Angelina Jolie and in The Grand Torino, another of my favorite movies, in which he also acted.