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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio / Five best moments

Leonardo DiCaprio: five best moments

Adam Boult
Friday 17 May 2013 12.48 BST

Whether you think of him as the modern day Robert De Niro or an overpraised Norman Lamont-lookalike (as people used to say), you can't deny that Leonardo DiCaprio has been in some excellent films in the course of his 20 year career – and was the obvious choice to take the title role in Baz Lurhmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

We asked readers to nominate his greatest performances – and here's an attempt to narrow it down to five of the very best, with suggestions from@TomorrowsEnd, @esmehaycox, @bobbyblowdart, @BafflerMeal and@amyjkhan.

Sadly there's no room here for his film debut in Critters 3 – let us know what else you think should have made the list in the comment thread below. Warning: spoilers and adult content feature heavily in these clips.

1. The Basketball Diaries

Here's a notably chuckle-free scene from the 1995 adaptation of Jim Carroll's memoirs, charting his descent into heroin addiction. It's always nice to start these top 5 lists off with something particularly harrowing.

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2. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Leo's first pairing with Baz Luhrmann, and the point at which he went from promising young actor to teen heartthrob.

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3. The Aviator

Leonardo as serious grown-up actor in a serious grown-up film; his sympathetic portrayal of Howard Hughes in Martin Scorsese's biopic makes the protagonist's inevitable slide into debilitating mental illness all the more gut-wrenching.

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4. The Departed

Another Scorsese film, this one a remake of terrific Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. DiCaprio is a cop working deep undercover in an organised crime ring, Matt Damon is the criminal who infiltrates the police as a mole – here, the two of them face off.

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Bruce Willis / Five best moments

Bruce Willis
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Bruce Willis: five best moments

From Die Hard to the Whole Nine Yards, we seek out the best on-screen moments from the man who first teamed up 'yippee-kay-aye' with an unpublishable obscenity

Adam Boult
Sunday 17 February 2013 14.57 GMT

An action hero who's equally at home in comedy roles and straight drama, Bruce Willis has been an A-lister for 25 years. While his presence in a film isn't necessarily always a sign of quality, he's starred in enough modern classics for all but the most mean-spirited to forgive him the occasional Look Who's Talking Now.

Here are five of our favourite moments from Bruce Willis's filmography, including recommendations from @guardianfilm Twitter followers @AudreyLang_, ‏@We_Are_Conclave, ‏@dkschaeche and ‏@RalphGurnsey. What would you add to the list?

1. Pulp Fiction

If you rearranged Pulp Fiction into chronological order, this would be the final scene – Butch and Fabienne riding out of town on Zed's chopper. Who's Zed? "Zed's dead, baby – Zed's dead."

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2. Hudson Hawk

Bruce carries out a fantastically choreographed robbery to the jaunty strains of Swinging On a Star. Fans of his singing might wish to check out his much-derided solo album The Return of Bruno, featuring his cover of Under the Boardwalk, a No 2 chart hit in the UK.

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3. Moonrise Kingdom

The most recent film on our list, last year's Moonrise Kingdom, featured Bruce in typically authoritative form as, well, a character neatly summed up in this brief scene.

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4. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

Bruce plays straight man to Mike Judge's sniggering simpletons in one of the stupidest, most childish and most consistently funny animated films of all time.

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5. The Die Hard films

The most-nominated Bruce Willis moment was him reciting his sweary catchphrase in the Die Hard films. So here it is. It's probably stating the obvious, but this video might not be for you if you're offended by bad language.

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• What would you add to the list? Let us know in the comments thread below.

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