I like the whole theatrical feeling it has, we don't see the audience. Just a man on a stage. Makes it feel Shakespearian. Emphasizes it's all an act, as if he's talking to himself in the void.
Such a great scene of a man in pure torment. He's angry at himself, angry at his father, angry at his mother, angry at men and at women, all mixed up and completely melting down. His whole manufactured world is crashing down around him and there's nothing left to do but confront the pain directly. Quite possibly Tom Cruise's finest performance. He was great in Collateral and Eyes Wide Shut as well but in this film he really got to show off his intensity and emotional range.
feel like that was a mistake he made and then basically perfectly corrected in the middle of his scene. like he almost fucked up the take, but instead made his character take responsibility for it and fed it into his monologue. cool stuff
uhkingdom : That was good. I wonder if that really happened and the director liked it so much they decided to keep it in the film? Haha. Actors improvise and make mistakes all of the time. Tom was definitely "in the zone " with this character. Yowza.
The spray tan, the man bun, the giant ego, misogynistic mannerisms, prancing about to mask the insecure rage simmering beneath the surface. This is Cruise's most outstanding performance. He was totally snubbed for the Oscar.
@@PriestessAusetRaAmen What is even sadder is that the Oscar that year went to one of the most boring and lacklustre performances. Michael Caine didn't deserve it.
I will go see any movie that Tom Cruise is in. Period. You sort of have to be unique/odd or whatever to have a supernova presence on the screen like he has. Deserves every penny he ever made.
him mispronouncing heinous and correcting himself just adds so much to the character. Refreshing to see a movie when not everything is perfectly stated
the way Tom Cruise totally loses steam - his mind, for once, on other things - and so stumbles through his own rote, memorized speech is amazing. because he doesn't _quite_ allow the bravado and showmanship to slip . . . he's just *barely* able to hold onto the bluster and enthusiasm when he says "QUITE an important chapter" at 0:37. THAT is amazing acting. that's a harder, more subtle characterization than his big, Award-Nominated crying scene at the end. at least i think so.
Yes. Thank you. This might be my favorite scene in the movie because of the depth of Cruise's performance. I'm always blown away when an actor can portray a character that is fighting to feel a way other than the way they feel. (e.g. Daniel Kaluuya trying to resist the hypnosis in Get Out) The subtleties that Cruise puts into Mackey in this scene... You can FEEL how hard he is trying keep his mind on the show. At 0:16 you can see his mouth and his eyes trying to maintain a smile and then slowly just give up. At 2:14 it seems like he finally gets somewhat back into the groove, energized by the crowds cheers, but then he misspeaks about the book and the façade he was desperately trying to hold up just comes crashing down...
If you watch this out of context you'd think it's from a comedy, but this movie is like a tense and convoluted drama that keeps you absorbed from start to finish. Really great movie.
Awww, poor Karl. did someone on the internet have a different OPINION than you? Poor little baby. It's ok, mommy has some tendies in the oven for you and a juice box with a sippy straw is in the fridge.
Yeah, poor Neal. it's not that your opinion is different. It's that your opinion is ignorant and stupid and masquerading as facts. Here are some facts for you: 8/10 Imdb, 83% TOMATOMETER, 89 % AUDIENCE SCORE. The movie won multiple international awards including the Golden Bär of Berlin and is regarded as a milestone of cinema. Why don't you stick with Nickelodeon shows and leave the movie discussions to the adults?
He flipped the table because he's explaining and showcasing a personality he is not. He knows he's living s a fraud because of his mother's death and his father's absence.
Character is a lie. Fact is Cunt isuthoirty she alpha mem and omega means some women will agressively or teporarily recieve in a submissive part,. Mantis eats her mate.
Actually, he flipped the table for both of these reasons. He projects his Alpha image as far and loud as he can as a defence against the fact that he never learnt to channel his emotions. That's why the catharsis scene with his dying father at the end is so important. He's not a man until he learns to cry.
9 years after commenting on this the first time, I noticed something I hadn't picked up on before with this scene and with Tom's performance. The very last line he says, where he says the phrase, "how to fake like you are a nice and caring person". The way he delivered that line and the look on his face after he says it really resonated with me just now. Considering he's just come out of an interview where he was exposed as a liar and he's having to face the skeletons in his closet again after trying to bury them for so long, it's like that final line just took the wind out of him (maybe why he seems to say it so breathlessly), because it's dawning on him that he's been living a lie himself and has been faking who he is, not faking that he's nice and caring, but faking that he's this massively misogynistic, greasy guy, and the reality is that not only has he been faking it, but he's encouraging the guys who came to see him to fake who they are too. Like the thought dawning on him that he's, in reality, leading these guys toward potentially the same miserable life he's led until then. Leading lambs to the slaughter, if you will. It's things like this that make me really just how much of a classic scene and performance this is, when you can come back to it years later and still pick up on things you didn't notice before. And I'm still salty Tom didn't win the Oscar for this.
he might have. P T Anderson picks actors and actresses who bring more to the role. also the scene later int he film where he meets his father dying on the death bed he brought his real life emotions of when his own father had died
1.39 is the pivotal scene where he finally succumbs to the fact that he is living a complete lie. He puts his head down and just wants to let out everything he has put a brick wall up to, but knows he has to continue with this phony and degrading persona until he cracks.
It's been 20 years since this was released, and 20 years since a great year for movies came to a close. I miss 1999. It was a pleasure to go to the theater that year. Being John Malkovich, Toy Story 2, The Blair Witch Project, 8MM, Election, Eyes Wide Shut, The Dinner Game, The Straight Story, Boys Don't Cry, Fight Club, American Beauty, Rosetta. What a lineup!
I had a job as a projectionist that year. I got to screen some of the best films I've ever seen. Missing from your list is Pushing Tin. Excellent flick. Also, The Matrix.
they were great because it was genuine cinema made for a mature audience. now everything is PC bullshit and dumbed down so that chinese people can understand the movies and fork over the tendies $
That single moment of realisation of the truth, a split second change in expression which tells us that how this character fractures from within when reality stares in his face. Immense caliber only Tom Cruise can do that
Cruise has been an amazing actor for 40 years now. The man has at that rare "It" factor. I think he was phenomenal in "Born on the fourth of july". The pain of being disabled, how he was lied to, the alienation of friends when he came back home etc... underrated film "Vanilla Sky", and of course magnolia. Too many to name.
Toms performance and monologues in this film have actually inspired me to get back into acting a bit, absolutely terrific performance that would have been very difficult to pull off.
You know what I find fascinating about how this scene was filmed? In the other seminar scenes, Mackey is almost always filmed from a distance, which I interpret as PTA emphasizing the at-arms-length personality of the character, but over the course of the interview and especially in this scene, he's filmed in close-up, as if to show that Mackey's confidentiality has been compromised and his in-control persona has been rattled and shaken. Brilliant film and a perfect performance from Cruise.
Tom Cruise should have won the Oscar for best supporting actor for this brilliant performance. He played against the type which the Academy loves but apparently Michael Cain won the old man vote for The Cider House Rules.
Michael Caine didn't even deserve to be nominated that year. Chris Cooper or Wes Bentley in American Beauty,Brad Pitt in Fight Club,Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest,John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich,etc were far superior.
@@tiaaaron3278 I agree. Michael Caine as great of an actor he is, clearly didn’t deserve it that year. I personally think brad Pitt or Tom cruise deserved it, it was one of the best, or the best, performances of their careers. I’m not a fan of John malkovich as his monotone delivery in all of his roles does nothing for me and I get bored seeing him on screen
Tom Cruise is one of them classically trained actors that just so happened to work well as an action star. This whole scene is one take. Straight monologue. He must've had a background in theater or something.
Go to Going Clear right now, I want you to turn to page 18 in Going Clear.. Fuck. This is fucking BULLSHIT! I want you to go to Dianetics. Your Dianetics books. That's what I want you to go to. Go to 23 in Dianetics. The Modern Science of Mental Health.
i always thought his hair in this movie (and this scene in particular) was amazingly shiny and soft-looking. i figured he had an army of hair stylists and he probably used the best conditioner in existence.. i always wanted to know what his secret was for his hair in this movie.. who knows though it might be something really weird like egg whites.
This is all done in a single take. It may only be 3 minutes long but Cruise proves here once again that he is a superb actor. But if you had seen Born on the Fourth of July, you would already know that
I never really loved "the character" Cruise but in this film was truly memorable as Guru of sex. unstoppable and fragile.Great interpretation by Oscar for a great movie
I love reading these comments because they are all so poetic and thought out. It’s like I’m living in a world of bots where no one appreciates any Beauty. Thank you all for giving me faith.
Love him or hate him, he's one of the best in the modern era. I'm not a huge fan but he's had some great films like: The Color of Money, Rain Man, Born on the 4th, A Few Good Men... Definitely his best performance is here tho
I love this isolated scene. The facade has already been shattered and he's trying to SO hard - but..... He's been called out. He knows its over. The way Tom Cruise's eyes ride every wave of new emotion through his invented "TJ Mackey" - denial and (failed) aggressiveness and acknowledgement then anger again - is pure art.
For years I thought Cruise was a mediocre actor who was an asshole in real life. I still think he's an asshole in real life, but his performance in the movie (and especially this scene) really showed what cruise was made of and showed how much depth he actually has as an actor. Incredible performance.
You can hear that Tom has done this take many times. His voice is horse and he says "heinious" instead of "heinous, catches himself but keeps going. "One take no mistakes", but they kept this take...still brilliant....I'm not gay, but he's shockingly good looking at this stage in his life.
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Tom Cruise is such a good actor, he played Andrew Tate 20+ years before the guy started posting.
It's based on Ross Jeffries
I came on here specifically to check that someone had pointed this out.
Tom is not acting here. He is being himself
He's more believable, let alone charismatic, than Andrew Tate himself.
Andrew Tate played Frank TJ Mackey. I am convinced this is is that plague on humanity's inspiration.
_Magnolia, Rain Man, Collateral_ - Cruise always gives his best performances when he embraces his inner trainwreck.
PurushaDesa exactly
"When he embraces his inner train wreck " is the best sentence I've heard today
Tropic Thunder
Telios Abraxas they actually have PTA has talked about it before
RISKY BUSINESS
I like the whole theatrical feeling it has, we don't see the audience. Just a man on a stage. Makes it feel Shakespearian. Emphasizes it's all an act, as if he's talking to himself in the void.
This was so beautifully said
I love how the camera gets closer to Cruise as his character spirals further downward.
Never noticed it. It's like we're getting closer to his actual character.
I like it when Tom Cruise plays the villianious type of characters. He's good at adding layers to those characters
Then watch Collateral - he was outstanding as the bad guy in that movie
@@Mrjordan8 Collateral was his most vicious role. A true psychological villain.
How is this character a villain?
@@bookeblade Not really a villain, but definitely a man who is not at peace with himself.
@@reignman4529 oh ok
Such a great scene of a man in pure torment. He's angry at himself, angry at his father, angry at his mother, angry at men and at women, all mixed up and completely melting down. His whole manufactured world is crashing down around him and there's nothing left to do but confront the pain directly. Quite possibly Tom Cruise's finest performance. He was great in Collateral and Eyes Wide Shut as well but in this film he really got to show off his intensity and emotional range.
Born on the Fourth of July was also him acting on the same level.
He deserved the Oscar this scene alone.
'hey-nee-us ....heinous!'
feel like that was a mistake he made and then basically perfectly corrected in the middle of his scene. like he almost fucked up the take, but instead made his character take responsibility for it and fed it into his monologue. cool stuff
Jake is not here for the fucking nachos
I know, it's just one of my favorite moments.
uhkingdom : That was good. I wonder if that really happened and the director liked it so much they decided to keep it in the film? Haha. Actors improvise and make mistakes all of the time. Tom was definitely "in the zone " with this character. Yowza.
Shit, I scrolled down and read your comment just as he was literally saying the line in the video.
This scene as well as the scene where he confronts his father near the end of the film are simply amazing. He was robbed of an Oscar.
He won best supporting actor
@@DeadWordz - no he didn’t. Michael Caine won for Cider House Rules.
@@michaeldyer5978 I’m mistaken, it was the golden globe I was thinking of
@@DeadWordz not the Oscar, should have won but lost to Michael Caine.
The spray tan, the man bun, the giant ego, misogynistic mannerisms, prancing about to mask the insecure rage simmering beneath the surface. This is Cruise's most outstanding performance. He was totally snubbed for the Oscar.
This character fits so well to Tom Cruise's personality, or at least with what everybody thinks about him. Once in a lifetime role, perfect execution.
He was robbed
@@PriestessAusetRaAmen What is even sadder is that the Oscar that year went to one of the most boring and lacklustre performances. Michael Caine didn't deserve it.
There is nothing outstanding all redeemable of a protruding is a bigot.
Vac Aspen hm? Cruise was excellent in this you don’t have to like him but at at least acknowledge his talent
I will go see any movie that Tom Cruise is in. Period. You sort of have to be unique/odd or whatever to have a supernova presence on the screen like he has. Deserves every penny he ever made.
Him, Arnold, and Sly are the holy trinity of acting greatness
Even the pennies he gives to his cult?
@@hydqjuliilq27 it's years relax
Guitar Gangster I agree! Love them all! And I am not a movie person but I will watch the hell out of all of their movies!
him mispronouncing heinous and correcting himself just adds so much to the character. Refreshing to see a movie when not everything is perfectly stated
It also adds to the tension! So good.
the way Tom Cruise totally loses steam - his mind, for once, on other things - and so stumbles through his own rote, memorized speech is amazing. because he doesn't _quite_ allow the bravado and showmanship to slip . . . he's just *barely* able to hold onto the bluster and enthusiasm when he says "QUITE an important chapter" at 0:37.
THAT is amazing acting. that's a harder, more subtle characterization than his big, Award-Nominated crying scene at the end. at least i think so.
I mean, the crying scene hits so hard after the buildup of the entire movie, but yes, I can see how out of context it isn't as good.
Yes. Thank you. This might be my favorite scene in the movie because of the depth of Cruise's performance. I'm always blown away when an actor can portray a character that is fighting to feel a way other than the way they feel. (e.g. Daniel Kaluuya trying to resist the hypnosis in Get Out) The subtleties that Cruise puts into Mackey in this scene... You can FEEL how hard he is trying keep his mind on the show. At 0:16 you can see his mouth and his eyes trying to maintain a smile and then slowly just give up. At 2:14 it seems like he finally gets somewhat back into the groove, energized by the crowds cheers, but then he misspeaks about the book and the façade he was desperately trying to hold up just comes crashing down...
I would love a whole movie on this character.
That’ll never happen
@@GuitarGangsterArmi we all know already. Mr Negative. This movie is 21 years ago.
@@dvlarry Knock it off. It’s not my fault you can’t handle a factual statement.
@@GuitarGangsterArmi Mr Obvious.
@@dvlarry Don’t patronize me.
His best performance, so aggressive and tightly wound.
Watch Born on the Fourth of July
Iron Mahmoud Ahmad I've seen it. Again, great performance. Bit oscary.
Sucks
1qwasz12 who Cruise?
If you watch this out of context you'd think it's from a comedy, but this movie is like a tense and convoluted drama that keeps you absorbed from start to finish. Really great movie.
one of the greatest 3 hour movies of all-time
Actually this was the only story line I was interested in. And the stupid frog shit ruined the movie.
Neal M Yeah, your are stupid. Confirmed
Awww, poor Karl. did someone on the internet have a different OPINION than you? Poor little baby.
It's ok, mommy has some tendies in the oven for you and a juice box with a sippy straw is in the fridge.
Yeah, poor Neal. it's not that your opinion is different. It's that your opinion is ignorant and stupid and masquerading as facts. Here are some facts for you: 8/10 Imdb, 83% TOMATOMETER, 89 % AUDIENCE SCORE. The movie won multiple international awards including the Golden Bär of Berlin and is regarded as a milestone of cinema. Why don't you stick with Nickelodeon shows and leave the movie discussions to the adults?
He flipped the table because he's explaining and showcasing a personality he is not. He knows he's living s a fraud because of his mother's death and his father's absence.
Character is a lie. Fact is Cunt isuthoirty she alpha mem and omega means some women will agressively or teporarily recieve in a submissive part,. Mantis eats her mate.
That's deep.
Actually he flipped the table because of the news he received about his father, and it's weighing on his mind.
Actually, he flipped the table for both of these reasons. He projects his Alpha image as far and loud as he can as a defence against the fact that he never learnt to channel his emotions.
That's why the catharsis scene with his dying father at the end is so important. He's not a man until he learns to cry.
Man he was in the zone
+c christmas .... DANGER ZONE!!
c christmas auto zone
He’s always in a ‘zone’, he has nothing behind his eyes. It’s like looking into a sharks eyes, completely dead!
He's so handsome
ur body is a 10
He should have won all the awards for this role. Period.
Yes the ballon D’or
16 people were here for the nachos
Great actor who rarely gets credit for it.
But I give HIM All.the CREDIT.He is simply the best💋💓
True
he had a golden globe award for this!
Yup. One of the best and he’s been doing the damn thing since the early 80’s
9 years after commenting on this the first time, I noticed something I hadn't picked up on before with this scene and with Tom's performance. The very last line he says, where he says the phrase, "how to fake like you are a nice and caring person". The way he delivered that line and the look on his face after he says it really resonated with me just now. Considering he's just come out of an interview where he was exposed as a liar and he's having to face the skeletons in his closet again after trying to bury them for so long, it's like that final line just took the wind out of him (maybe why he seems to say it so breathlessly), because it's dawning on him that he's been living a lie himself and has been faking who he is, not faking that he's nice and caring, but faking that he's this massively misogynistic, greasy guy, and the reality is that not only has he been faking it, but he's encouraging the guys who came to see him to fake who they are too. Like the thought dawning on him that he's, in reality, leading these guys toward potentially the same miserable life he's led until then. Leading lambs to the slaughter, if you will.
It's things like this that make me really just how much of a classic scene and performance this is, when you can come back to it years later and still pick up on things you didn't notice before. And I'm still salty Tom didn't win the Oscar for this.
Should have won the Oscar, anything. This will be watched for 100 years. Cruise and his director are in perfect such. That doesn't happen often.
Cruise delivers this scene so well that it's like he improvised the whole thing
he might have.
P T Anderson picks actors and actresses who bring more to the role.
also the scene later int he film where he meets his father dying on the death bed he brought his real life emotions of when his own father had died
@@StephNuggs and you are? Unemployed?
Proves he's one of the greatest actors.
When I found out that Tom Cruise still doesn't have 1 Oscar award 2:30
Mojo Risin love your videos mate
But DiCaprio does have one
@@NomadAngie DiCaprio doesn't deserve an Oscar.
Actually he won a award for this role
Action stars rarely do
1.39 is the pivotal scene where he finally succumbs to the fact that he is living a complete lie. He puts his head down and just wants to let out everything he has put a brick wall up to, but knows he has to continue with this phony and degrading persona until he cracks.
And your pic is moonlight 🙈
Tom Cruise you are awesome man! And taking part in a performance like this is fucking brilliant!
It's been 20 years since this was released, and 20 years since a great year for movies came to a close. I miss 1999. It was a pleasure to go to the theater that year. Being John Malkovich, Toy Story 2, The Blair Witch Project, 8MM, Election, Eyes Wide Shut, The Dinner Game, The Straight Story, Boys Don't Cry, Fight Club, American Beauty, Rosetta. What a lineup!
I had a job as a projectionist that year. I got to screen some of the best films I've ever seen. Missing from your list is Pushing Tin. Excellent flick. Also, The Matrix.
I was born in 99
they were great because it was genuine cinema made for a mature audience. now everything is PC bullshit and dumbed down so that chinese people can understand the movies and fork over the tendies $
Man what happened to American cinema...
@@timbuktu777 nothing 2021 was excellent and 2022 is shaping up to be one of the best years ever
He is incredible. If you didn’t watch this movie...you don’t realize every single word is deliberate in its implementation. He deserves an Oscar ASAP.
This scene is incredible...one take. 3 minutes of vulnerability, almost like you’re watching a one man play. Tom Cruise was perfect for this role...
Table flip makes the scene work.
That single moment of realisation of the truth, a split second change in expression which tells us that how this character fractures from within when reality stares in his face. Immense caliber only Tom Cruise can do that
Brilliant performance, I never really thought of Tom Cruise as a great actor. I stand corrected, this was marvelous!
Yes mate and more importantly WATP
Tommy is the best
Cruise has been an amazing actor for 40 years now. The man has at that rare "It" factor. I think he was phenomenal in "Born on the fourth of july". The pain of being disabled, how he was lied to, the alienation of friends when he came back home etc... underrated film "Vanilla Sky", and of course magnolia. Too many to name.
Agreed on all fronts. Such a great actor. Looked at as a movie star, but is a natural born actor. Rare breed to be both
Tom Cruise really needs to go back doing more films like this.
This has to be the greatest monologue in the history of cinema
Toms performance and monologues in this film have actually inspired me to get back into acting a bit, absolutely terrific performance that would have been very difficult to pull off.
The Godfather and Network are better ones.
You know what I find fascinating about how this scene was filmed? In the other seminar scenes, Mackey is almost always filmed from a distance, which I interpret as PTA emphasizing the at-arms-length personality of the character, but over the course of the interview and especially in this scene, he's filmed in close-up, as if to show that Mackey's confidentiality has been compromised and his in-control persona has been rattled and shaken.
Brilliant film and a perfect performance from Cruise.
One. Fucking. Shot. Let that sink in
The O.G Top G
Love this whole movie....Cruise is such a brilliant actor!
Tom Cruise should have won the Oscar for best supporting actor for this brilliant performance. He played against the type which the Academy loves but apparently Michael Cain won the old man vote for The Cider House Rules.
Michael Caine didn't even deserve to be nominated that year. Chris Cooper or Wes Bentley in American Beauty,Brad Pitt in Fight Club,Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest,John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich,etc were far superior.
Philip Baker Hall should have gotten a nomination.
Tia Aaron Brad Pitt would be the leading actor not supporting
@@randywhite3947 Norton was leading not Brad.
@@tiaaaron3278 I agree. Michael Caine as great of an actor he is, clearly didn’t deserve it that year. I personally think brad Pitt or Tom cruise deserved it, it was one of the best, or the best, performances of their careers. I’m not a fan of John malkovich as his monotone delivery in all of his roles does nothing for me and I get bored seeing him on screen
Frank’s thinking: “If my own Dad doesn’t love me how can I love anyone else”
Why doesn't this have more views? No respect I tell ya...This is truly intense, awesome acting, love the character or hate him...
When you have movies like Tom Cruise in them, you cant lose
On cinema?
Tom Cruise is one of them classically trained actors that just so happened to work well as an action star. This whole scene is one take. Straight monologue. He must've had a background in theater or something.
I like to imagine this is how he advertises Scientology
Lmaoooooo
Go to Going Clear right now, I want you to turn to page 18 in Going Clear.. Fuck. This is fucking BULLSHIT! I want you to go to Dianetics. Your Dianetics books. That's what I want you to go to. Go to 23 in Dianetics. The Modern Science of Mental Health.
Indeed, you’re right on point there.
Paul knew he was perfect for this. Tom is Frank TJ Mackey. He may have a different philosophy but the attitude and charisma are the same
Best film ever made and many of the actors involved had their best performances ever, especially Cruise
I love this man
CRUISE IS LEGEND
For this scene and the one previous during the interview alone he deserves an Oscar.
One talented man!!
This was his best performance.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cruise! One of his best performances!
Tom cruise's fame as one of the biggest movie icon of all time belittles his extraordinary acting talents which are Oscar worthy
i always thought his hair in this movie (and this scene in particular) was amazingly shiny and soft-looking. i figured he had an army of hair stylists and he probably used the best conditioner in existence.. i always wanted to know what his secret was for his hair in this movie.. who knows though it might be something really weird like egg whites.
lol
It's called greasy
Tom is gonna get credit in due time. Privately he maybe crazy but hes a good actor!
Life's Journey you can’t say that when you don’t even know him privately
Gonna get credit? He has nothing left to prove. Who gives a shit if he didn’t win a stupid Oscar.
No one could have done this like him. #oscarrobbed #encore
#neverforget
“I will not apologize for who I am”- may be the BEST LINE for existence I have ever heard in my entire life … THANK YOU
Accurate -- “ I will not apologize for who I am” is my LIFE motto../ and I enjoy people who feel the same way!!!!
A great underrated actor. One of his many best performances. Hollyweirdos has robbed this excellent actor of his Oscars.
It’s rigged. Hollywood is full of shitty people.
Greatest Acting by Cruise to the end of time !
it's sad many don't consider him a great actor. The guy is so talented!
All one shot, brilliant
Cruise was gold in this movie
the greatest acting from tom cruise
Tom Cruise was absolutely brilliant in this movie. Losing to Michael Caine in Cider House Rules is one of the biggest missteps ever at the Oscars
This is all done in a single take. It may only be 3 minutes long but Cruise proves here once again that he is a superb actor. But if you had seen Born on the Fourth of July, you would already know that
Three minutes of reciting lines is a long time.
the writing of this movie is mind blowing.
I love the moment at 2:28. It's so unexpected, lol.
Oscar dont deserve tom cruise
This is the authentic performance he has ever given
Tom you are amazing here and also in tropic thunder
I never really loved "the character" Cruise but in this film was truly memorable as Guru of sex. unstoppable and fragile.Great interpretation by Oscar for a great movie
ICON
Very, very cool!
Such a landmark film
I love reading these comments because they are all so poetic and thought out. It’s like I’m living in a world of bots where no one appreciates any Beauty. Thank you all for giving me faith.
He's the true Top G
Amazing how far ahead of his time PTA was with so many themes in this film. It's like he saw the future.
That tan killed me😂
Love him or hate him, he's one of the best in the modern era. I'm not a huge fan but he's had some great films like: The Color of Money, Rain Man, Born on the 4th, A Few Good Men... Definitely his best performance is here tho
Kyle Safford how can you say that when you’re not a huge fan?
Kyle Safford He has had more than a few great films
I’m not a big fan of Tom Cruise movies but this scene is absolutely amazing!!
I love this isolated scene. The facade has already been shattered and he's trying to SO hard - but.....
He's been called out. He knows its over.
The way Tom Cruise's eyes ride every wave of new emotion through his invented "TJ Mackey" - denial and (failed) aggressiveness and acknowledgement then anger again - is pure art.
For years I thought Cruise was a mediocre actor who was an asshole in real life. I still think he's an asshole in real life, but his performance in the movie (and especially this scene) really showed what cruise was made of and showed how much depth he actually has as an actor.
Incredible performance.
Renaissance Man how is he a asshole have you met him?
this is a masterful performance...its like you could see inside frank tj mackey
TC is always on point, but this is an other level
Cruise no doubt deserves supporting actor Oscar
I can not stand Tom Cruise...but his performance in this was GOLDEN.
cuz he's too good looking for you, ugly cow
If you like this, you might like him in Collateral, along with Jamie Foxx. Watch the trailer ruclips.net/video/Pwrq3O6XDPs/видео.html
Gina Rivera how can you say that when you don’t even know him?
Really cool and candid TedX from Tom Cruise here!
Brilliant
no I don't want a microphone
This scene happened after that interview and you can see how much it got to him from the start.
The whole movie is a masterclass of art and cinema
Great act
tom cruises best performance
Tom’s Greatest Scene
You can hear that Tom has done this take many times. His voice is horse and he says "heinious" instead of "heinous, catches himself but keeps going. "One take no mistakes", but they kept this take...still brilliant....I'm not gay, but he's shockingly good looking at this stage in his life.
he should get an oscar for this
Great acting only comes from great writing. Kudos to PTA for making this feel so natural.
One of his best roles. I dont know why some people piss on Cruise. I think he's a great actor.