From Fast Food Nation to Wildlife, these are Paul Dano's most underrated movies.
A sensitive, thoroughly unpredictable actor, Paul Dano has steadily proven to be one of the industry’s best. It takes a lot of guts to go toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Dano proved in There Will Be Blood that he could hold his own against one of the greatest actors of all-time.
9 'Taking Woodstock' Linklater wasn’t the only prestige filmmaker that Dano got to work with during the first decade of his career; he also appeared in Ang Lee’s unusual historical dramedy Taking Woodstock. The film chronicles the incredible true story of how the young man Elliot Tiber convinced his parents Jake and Sonia to host the culturally redefining Woodstock festival.
Dano is oddly cast in a character role; he pops up as the eccentric inventor Simon Peck, who created the powerful “Zephyr” device that Miller is after. It’s a thankless role that Dano knocks out of the park, proving that he was unlikely to ever phone in a performance. The relationship between the two is compelling; Jonathan claims to be a “master storyteller,” but is really just trying to involve himself in his son’s life in any way that he can. Dano shows a sweet side to Nick, who remains optimistic, yet fearful of his father’s presence.
4 'Youth' Dano has been known for being a meticulous actor, but he also has a healthy degree of self-awareness about the nature of his craft. This was evident in the 2015 dramedy Youth, where Dano got to play the eccentric actor Jimmy Tree.Tree surprises his old friend Fred Ballinger by “completely immersing” himself in the role of Adolf Hitler by dressing up in a Nazi uniform.
2 'Meek’s Cutoff' Kelly Reichardt is one of the industry’s greatest filmmakers, and her feminist reimagining of the western genre helped prove that not all stories about the Wild West needed to be told by white men. Dano makes this point even clearer; his character Thomas Gately is a complete buffoon.
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