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Best director/actor team?

Best director/actor team?

  • Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune

    Votes: 44 24.2%

  • Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro

    Votes: 61 33.5%

  • Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart

    Votes: 10 5.5%

  • John Carpenter and Kurt Russell

    Votes: 18 9.9%

  • Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski

    Votes: 11 6.0%

  • John Waters and Divine

    Votes: 3 1.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 35 19.2%
  • Total voters
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John Dunbar

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Let's say they had to make at least three films/projects together to count.

Considering the sheer number of great films, I would say it has to be Kurosawa and Mifune, but maybe I'm forgetting someone. Wong Kar-wai also has several great collaborators, so many that I didn't know which one to choose for the poll. There's also Leone and Eastwood, of course, and Tarantino and Jackson, but there's not enough room for them either. Some others that come to mind are Hitchcock with either Grace Kelly or Cary Grant, and Elia Kazan with Marlon Brando. Seven choices is not enough for the kind of polls.
 

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Scorsese/DiCaprio

I'm absolutely biased for being the right age for when these movies came out. I admit if we're judging individual films on their merits the Scorsese/DeNiro combo wins every day of the week, and is the right choice to include on the poll imo. But I'm just a huge fan of DeCaprio's acting, and Scorsese has driven him into some of his best work.

Mifune/Kirasawa as an honorable mention. Legendary run they had.
 
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When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
 
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I voted for Kurosawa/Mifune, but I'll also throw my hat in for David Lynch & Laura Dern

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Hopfrog

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You could make a strong case for John Huston and Humphrey Bogart being included in this conversation. The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The African Queen are three classics.
 
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Kurosawa + Mifune or Kurosawa + Shimura

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Sasliquid

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Kurosawa/Mifune for the number and variety of films

Herzog and Kinski also great but suffers because Kinski was a creep
 
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Just for the fact that they didn't kill each other and made some great movies together, I vote Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski( Fuck Kinski though, piece of shit).
 

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Spielberg and Hanks.

And maybe not now, but Tim Burton and Johnny Depp in the 90's and early 2000's.
 
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Kurosawa + Mifune, there's no doubt about it.

Also, if we count his work as a producer... gotta put Lucas and Ford into consideration too.
 
Bor Gullet

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Edmond Dantès said:
Agreed. It sours Lawrence of Arabia a great deal.
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Meh.

I'm not advocating for the practice of whitewashing or browning up an actor, but Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn delivered amazing, nuanced performances. What would have been offensive is if they delivered caricatured performances, which didn't happen.

Also, the film deserves credit for casting Omar Sharrif as Sheriff Ali. Casting Arab actors in main Arab roles didn't happen back then or after until about the 2000's.
 
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James Cameron + Arnold Schwarzenegger. Bestest combo ever.

Kurosawa and Mifune is such a wonderful combo.
 
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IMO The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed are top 3 scorsese.

That's coming from a fan of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. I think Scorsese's library is extremely strong, but I've definitely enjoyed his output with Dicaprio more. They are the types of movies i can rewatch over and over. Even Shutter Island.
 
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John Dunbar

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Hopfrog said:
You could make a strong case for John Huston and Humphrey Bogart being included in this conversation. The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and The African Queen are three classics.
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That would be an excellent pick. Two others that come to mind are George Cukor and Katherine Hepburn, and Howard Hawks and Cary Grant.
 
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