@@charliedallachie3539TBH I think he’s the best part of this movie but you do have quite a good crew here Cilian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, Josh Peck, and Jack Quaid
The difference between great actors and the rest of them is that you can tell if they are overreacting or not. He's channeling most of the rage through his eyes flawlessly. Other actors would probably yell and open their eyes too much overreacting a little bit. The subtlety in RDJ's performance is phenomenal.
Okay come on. You can praise RDJ's performance here as much as you want--it may even be his best--but calling it "career-defining" is so disingenuous. Tony Stark will always be his most important and recognizable role.
Let's just say it's all a matter of definitions: Tony Stark may remain his most iconic role, but Lewis Strauss, i.e. the role that will likely earn him an Oscar (🤞🏻), is by far his finest performance, the one that has defined his career as an actor, not just a pop culture giant (which he was and will always be thanks to Tony 😎) That said, I love RDJ very much ESPECIALLY thanks to his Marvel years, so I guess we have one thing in common 😉 Let's just hope together that on March 10th he will bring the gold home ✨️
He portrayed the egotistical pettniess and arrogance of people like Lewis Staruss sooooo wellll, it was super gratifying. I've seen this person before. A petty jealous person willing to destroy anyone in their way just to prove to the world that they're the best and it never ends well. All you get when you live in that sad way is people waiting for the smallest opportunity to get away from you.
Honestly, I view it much differently. On one hand, Lewis Strauss’s antagonism of Oppenheimer is what leads to the conflict of the story. And there's no question Strauss is wrong here. But, the story goes out of its way to show that it would be foolish (even a bit ignorant) to place this all on Strauss’s shoulders, and relieve Oppenheimer of his own actions. As we witness, Oppenheimer doing some very disgusting actions that we were still in the wonder whether we should look up to a guy like this or not. In my opinion, I think Nolan wanted the audience to try and make us question to who's really the lesser of two evils here.
@@osmanyousif7849 More naive than disgusting for the most part, but yeah, definitely a deeply flawed person. The movie's big flub with him is that there was no poison apple, or there is no evidence of him ever doing that. Although that scene was more symbolic of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. But it might give some people the impression that he actually tried to _murder_ someone. It was the only thing in the movie that Oppenheimer's grandson was angry about. Otherwise he's said that his grandfather was indeed a complex man who had many sides to him. Strauss was a real piece of work, though. Like wow, his takedown of Oppenheimer was motivated by pure spite.
@@squamish4244 It was driven by egotism as much as it was Robert's backwards opinions now on the nuclear arms race. RDJ was absolutely brilliant to play Lewis Strauss.
Have to give props to the actor reacting when he raises his voice too, only a brief shot in the scene but he really sells the tension and the idea that Strauss is unravelling.
Gotta be honest. When I first heard Robert was getting all the praise in the world for his performance as Strauss, I wasn't buying it. I thought people only missed him as Iron Man. And then I saw him and... Good God. Imminent Oscar fr
That's one of the big problem. He's a very good actor but many like you ( no offense) will just think other people have no taste and only praise him because they love Iron Man. But in reality the success of his Iron Man actually blinded people of how good of an actor he is and hindered people from seeing his skill in other movies during the peak of MCU.
“You know he never once said he regrets Hiroshima?” Looking back at the infamous “now I am become death” clip from a lifetime ago, I don’t think he ever had to say he regretted it; he wore it clearly and plainly on his face.
Agreed. I always thought he was one of best character actors alive and I hope he chooses more roles like this. His talent is too big for the Marvel movies.
I don't think people realized how good of an actor he is. Which is why I was so happy when I found out he was cast in this film. He got a chance to really prove it.
Its not even that, hes a very well actor but its just the fact that iron man is such a staple to the mfu that whenever rdj is on scene we will always see him as iron man
No one isn’t saying rdj can’t pull off dr doom. It’s just we don’t want to see a tony stark become dr doom. We want the real dr doom, as in victor von doom
Definitely deserved the Academy Award for his performance. Oppenheimer deserved every Oscar it won and it’s great that Christopher Nolan and RDJ finally won after all these years, with Cillian Murphy also winning Best Actor. Best film of 2023.
I believe Robert Downey Jr. gave his best performance since his last time as Iron Man in Avengers Endgame! If he can win a golden globe award for this, then he can sure win an Oscar.
I feel like a quote from this bit of dialogue will become famous. Kinder like "IVE ABANDONED MY CHILD, IVE ABSNONED MY CHILD, IVE ABANDONED MY BOY!" or "IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE!?"
Apparently RDJ is returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. From this movie I can tell he’ll be a great Doctor Doom because Strauss treats Oppenheimer kind of like how Doctor Doom treats Reed Richards
After winning an Oscar for this noteworthy performance, RDJ thought "Meh, this ain't fun enough. Where are the cheering people at?", then went straight to Comic Con 😅
His personality was the atomic bomb itself the way he delivered it was unbelievably perfect. I see why he won the awards for it. I saw this movie at a 10 pm showing and his performance made it less harder to stay up throughout that screening
"Richards wanted to own the Power Cosmic. He wanted to be the man who moved the universe. He talks about putting the cosmic genie back in the bottle. Well I'm here to tell you that I *know* Reed Richards, and if he could do it all over, he'd do it all the same. You know he's never once said that he regrets Ben Grimm? He'd do it all over. Why? Because it made him the most fantastic man who ever lived."
This was a case of the Academy getting it right. Sure, biopics are Oscar bait, but Christopher Nolan doesn't give a sh*t about Oscar bait and neither do Cillian Murphy or Robert Downey Jr. The movie deserved all the accolades it got. I just watched it again and I can't believe a movie where people talked for three hours was so incredibly engaging.
"J Robert Oppenheimer, the martyr. I gave him exactly what he wanted: to be remembered for Trinity. Not HIROSHAMA, NOT NAGASAKI!! He should be thanking me!"
I thought it might be anachronistic at first but, neat little nod to the expression "The genie is out of the bottle", as it's believed to have originated during the Cold War in reference to nuclear weapons. Not confident the inversion "put the genie back in the bottle" (heard here) is quite so old, though.
And the Oscar goes to… Robert Downey Jr.
He deserved the award for best supporting actor, an absolutely brilliant performance by RDJ
You can tell that this was the exact kind of role that he had been wanting to play after 11 years of playing Iron Man
It's a great performance. But I do think Robert Deniro was better. He was very subtle
It’s weird seeing Tony stark in this movie 😂😂
He won!! :)
@@charliedallachie3539TBH I think he’s the best part of this movie but you do have quite a good crew here Cilian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Gary Oldman, Casey Affleck, Josh Peck, and Jack Quaid
The scene that won him the Oscar.
For sure. I love RDJ, but I couldn't even see him here. Amazing transformation.
@@34LOLWTF So true. I didn't see Iron Man, I saw a vile, vindictive piece of trash from a defining historical era. Good lord.
Nah. There were much more subtle scenes that were better. The big loud speech isn't what it's about. At least it shouldn't be
@@splinter360 They work in conjunction.
The difference between great actors and the rest of them is that you can tell if they are overreacting or not. He's channeling most of the rage through his eyes flawlessly. Other actors would probably yell and open their eyes too much overreacting a little bit. The subtlety in RDJ's performance is phenomenal.
Career-defining performance. We will never see RDJ the same way we did before this monumental achievement, anymore.
That’s a fair assessment.
I don’t think he will reach these heights again and that’s why he is a sure fire choice to win the Oscar.
@@CannibalWHORE22 I totally agree!
Okay come on. You can praise RDJ's performance here as much as you want--it may even be his best--but calling it "career-defining" is so disingenuous. Tony Stark will always be his most important and recognizable role.
@@romilrh Hey pal, I respect your opinion, but calling mine "disingenuous"... It's a bit too much, isn't it 😅?
Let's just say it's all a matter of definitions: Tony Stark may remain his most iconic role, but Lewis Strauss, i.e. the role that will likely earn him an Oscar (🤞🏻), is by far his finest performance, the one that has defined his career as an actor, not just a pop culture giant (which he was and will always be thanks to Tony 😎) That said, I love RDJ very much ESPECIALLY thanks to his Marvel years, so I guess we have one thing in common 😉 Let's just hope together that on March 10th he will bring the gold home ✨️
This is THE scene for the Oscar highlight
He either died a hero as Iron Man
or live long enough to see himself
become the villain as Doctor Doom.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
@@TheProtagonist2020 Harvey Dent/Two-Face said it.
@@todoroki_2219Right.
Not really a villian more like a Dick
This is why your marvel comedy universe is mocked so much by everyone
Pretty sure this whole scene alone earned him his Oscar.
He portrayed the egotistical pettniess and arrogance of people like Lewis Staruss sooooo wellll, it was super gratifying. I've seen this person before. A petty jealous person willing to destroy anyone in their way just to prove to the world that they're the best and it never ends well. All you get when you live in that sad way is people waiting for the smallest opportunity to get away from you.
Honestly, I view it much differently. On one hand, Lewis Strauss’s antagonism of Oppenheimer is what leads to the conflict of the story. And there's no question Strauss is wrong here. But, the story goes out of its way to show that it would be foolish (even a bit ignorant) to place this all on Strauss’s shoulders, and relieve Oppenheimer of his own actions. As we witness, Oppenheimer doing some very disgusting actions that we were still in the wonder whether we should look up to a guy like this or not. In my opinion, I think Nolan wanted the audience to try and make us question to who's really the lesser of two evils here.
@@osmanyousif7849 just like with The Prestige in which there is no right or wrong answer in regard to who is worse between Borden and Angier
@@osmanyousif7849 More naive than disgusting for the most part, but yeah, definitely a deeply flawed person. The movie's big flub with him is that there was no poison apple, or there is no evidence of him ever doing that. Although that scene was more symbolic of the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. But it might give some people the impression that he actually tried to _murder_ someone.
It was the only thing in the movie that Oppenheimer's grandson was angry about. Otherwise he's said that his grandfather was indeed a complex man who had many sides to him.
Strauss was a real piece of work, though. Like wow, his takedown of Oppenheimer was motivated by pure spite.
@@squamish4244 It was driven by egotism as much as it was Robert's backwards opinions now on the nuclear arms race. RDJ was absolutely brilliant to play Lewis Strauss.
@@osmanyousif7849crazy how this has 25 likes and the nonsense comment has 400…
Doctor Doom ranting about Reed Richards
This is how Doctor Doom is gonna be when he realizes he can't win against The Fantastic Four.
Yes. It's gonna be evil Iron Man.
@@Hei_Darkfire not evil iron man he’s literally Victor von doom
Cause villains never win in fiction....
But in reality it seems they do.
Yeah 2025 version
cringe can we not mix MCU into this
This is the moment we all knew he'd win.
Have to give props to the actor reacting when he raises his voice too, only a brief shot in the scene but he really sells the tension and the idea that Strauss is unravelling.
Gotta be honest. When I first heard Robert was getting all the praise in the world for his performance as Strauss, I wasn't buying it. I thought people only missed him as Iron Man. And then I saw him and... Good God. Imminent Oscar fr
That's one of the big problem. He's a very good actor but many like you ( no offense) will just think other people have no taste and only praise him because they love Iron Man. But in reality the success of his Iron Man actually blinded people of how good of an actor he is and hindered people from seeing his skill in other movies during the peak of MCU.
I hope RDJ and Cillian Murphy will win both Oscars
It's probably gonna be tough, but we'll see.
RDJ easily but Cillian might be hard.
@@griffinholahan123RDJ is gonna win. Murphy could lose but is still the favourite at the moment.
Do it for us Irish
They just did
Strauss went full scale conspiracy theorist by the end
Oh, so this is what Doom's personality should be.
He played a good guy, a bad guy, and is now gonna be THE BIG BAD 😢
Hell yeah
and the Oscar goes to ...
“You know he never once said he regrets Hiroshima?”
Looking back at the infamous “now I am become death” clip from a lifetime ago, I don’t think he ever had to say he regretted it; he wore it clearly and plainly on his face.
Speechless, just speechless…..
Who else could see RDJ in a mask giving a monologue about Reed Richards like this lol
it was at that moment Tony Stark became Victor Von Doom
In fact, 👆 this is a preview of RDJ as Doctor Doom.
This might be the scene that made them thought RDJ could pass as a villain like dr doom.
This is Robert Downey jr's acceptance speech when he wins the Oscar
So glad RDJ escaped the MCU machine.
He gave pretty satisfying intense scenes like this in _The Judge_ (2014) but yeah, that was in the middle of his MCU days, so no one cared.
Agreed. I always thought he was one of best character actors alive and I hope he chooses more roles like this. His talent is too big for the Marvel movies.
Indeed bro they only made min crack jokes but this performance was something else
@@anupsharma8017I don’t agree, but you can keep that
I doubt he regrets it. Those put him back in motion. But he was always too good of an actor for those movies.
I don't think people realized how good of an actor he is. Which is why I was so happy when I found out he was cast in this film. He got a chance to really prove it.
All he needs is a European accent, a metallic tone to his voice, and the narcissistic arrogance dialed up to 100; and boom! There's Dr. Doom for you.
AND HE WON!! ❤❤
Ready to see this kind of RDJ acting when he’s playing Doctor Doom🤯🤯
This is evidence that RDJ can pull Doctor Doom off
Its not even that, hes a very well actor but its just the fact that iron man is such a staple to the mfu that whenever rdj is on scene we will always see him as iron man
No one isn’t saying rdj can’t pull off dr doom. It’s just we don’t want to see a tony stark become dr doom. We want the real dr doom, as in victor von doom
@hungryalmightyhe ain't portaying tony7156
Same i was here after he announced become Doctor Doom if can be a great villian 😅
There's a lot of fan art where he still looks like iron man as doctor doom but this is how I imagine he would look
Yep we don't have to worry about the Dr.Doom casting.
Definitely deserved the Academy Award for his performance. Oppenheimer deserved every Oscar it won and it’s great that Christopher Nolan and RDJ finally won after all these years, with Cillian Murphy also winning Best Actor. Best film of 2023.
Absolutely agree. This movie was incredible and absolutely deserved Best Picture
This right here absolutely fantastic scene. Thanks for sharing the exact clip.
This is why he is winning the Oscar
Just change Oppenheimer into Reed Richards and you have Doom in a nutshell right there.
Bro his anger is so raw and realistic here. Sounds like my dad getting pissed at me for something.
I believe Robert Downey Jr. gave his best performance since his last time as Iron Man in Avengers Endgame! If he can win a golden globe award for this, then he can sure win an Oscar.
And massive far cry from that mid as hell Dolittle.
I didn’t realize this was RDJ till half way through the movie, he looks so different here.
Give This Man The Oscar!
He won the oscar
I feel like a quote from this bit of dialogue will become famous. Kinder like "IVE ABANDONED MY CHILD, IVE ABSNONED MY CHILD, IVE ABANDONED MY BOY!" or "IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE!?"
"alright alright alright"
And Finally He Won the Oscar🎉❤
Dr Doom hatred against Reed Richards
OPPENHEIMER BUILT THIS BOMB FROM A BOWL OF ROCKS--IN A MIDDLE OF A F**KING DESERT!!!
This performance is hot dog, call that Oscar🔥
Ahhhh, Dr Doom.
Apparently RDJ is returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. From this movie I can tell he’ll be a great Doctor Doom because Strauss treats Oppenheimer kind of like how Doctor Doom treats Reed Richards
This is why he will be great as Dr Doom
His audition for Doctor Doom.
This is, in my opinion, the best role the RDJ has performed in a serious movie. He totally deserves to win the Oscar for this role
Victor von doom talking about reed richards
Lmao
Give daddy the Oscar
Ok… I mean… I can see a bit of Victor Von Doom here.
Yeah, his Strauss characterization does have a kind of deeply envious resentful obsession over a genius the same way Doom would be expected to.
@@briang.2218 Exactly. RDJ just literally needs to crank that characterization up to eleven and we got ourselves Victor von Doom
@@axceljulio5747the theme in the background also kinda fits doom too
I look forward to seeing this scene right before RDJ wins the Oscar for best supporting actor.
This is pure Victor von Doom energy.
Hell no. Doom is not controled by his emotions except to find his mother
I can see Doctor Doom in this
Best thing RDJ has ever done
RDJ as Doctor Doom Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars 🙌🔥
Rdj was in the running to be scarecrow in Batman begin, now he took Cillians dr doom role 😂
After winning an Oscar for this noteworthy performance, RDJ thought "Meh, this ain't fun enough. Where are the cheering people at?", then went straight to Comic Con 😅
He won! He won the Oscar!
He is jew,what did you expect ?
His personality was the atomic bomb itself the way he delivered it was unbelievably perfect. I see why he won the awards for it. I saw this movie at a 10 pm showing and his performance made it less harder to stay up throughout that screening
In fact, this is a preview of RDJ as Doctor Doom. 👀
The new Dr. Doom
And now........He Walks as Doctor Doom after dying as Iron Man
Now replace the name Oppenheimer with Richard’s and you’ve got yourself a Doom
Just found out RDJ is playing Doctor Doom in the MCU. Wanted to see if he’s got what it takes.
So what do you think? Does he deserves it ?
@@ankitnmnaik229 He does
@@ankitnmnaik229 we’ll see.
"Richards wanted to own the Power Cosmic. He wanted to be the man who moved the universe. He talks about putting the cosmic genie back in the bottle. Well I'm here to tell you that I *know* Reed Richards, and if he could do it all over, he'd do it all the same. You know he's never once said that he regrets Ben Grimm? He'd do it all over. Why? Because it made him the most fantastic man who ever lived."
Bro this is legendary and hilarious
@@melo_maniac_studio and in character.
Lewis Strauss is a number one certified HATER, right there along with A. J. Weberman
This was a case of the Academy getting it right. Sure, biopics are Oscar bait, but Christopher Nolan doesn't give a sh*t about Oscar bait and neither do Cillian Murphy or Robert Downey Jr. The movie deserved all the accolades it got.
I just watched it again and I can't believe a movie where people talked for three hours was so incredibly engaging.
Incredible acting from RDJ!
Doctor Doom
I've told after seeing movie in theatre that he'll win oscar for this role for sure. Damn it was amazing
yeah, he will be a great doctor doom
"J Robert Oppenheimer, the martyr. I gave him exactly what he wanted: to be remembered for Trinity. Not HIROSHAMA, NOT NAGASAKI!! He should be thanking me!"
Well he's not
When the Villian and the Hero both win Oscars, YOU KNOW YOU HAVE AN EPIC MOVIE. 🎉
This will be the scene the Academy shows when they list the nominees for Best Supporting Actor
So dumb how they didn’t show clips. Just actors telling them how great they are, which would be fine if they actually showed the clips
@@alexbrettw though it was cool seeing him and Sam Rockwell reunite after Iron Man 2 and Ke Huy Quan calling his name was also nice
@@ytuser_3122 yeah that part was cool. I just wish they showed the clips like they usually do
@@ytuser_3122 Im wrong actually. Oscars don’t show clips and they did this format back when Heath Ledger won
I love when RDJR does this he deserves an Oscar
HE WON 🎉❤
His acting skills are really good he deserves other movie like Oppenheimer Robert downey jr sir you are legend
Who’s here after THEE announcement
Man has range. Definitely think he can pull off Dr Doom.
Should have added some of his clips to the Oscars
He did it! He won!!!!!🎉🎉🎉
It won most awards tonight. AMAZING movie. Deserved every award.
RDJ's Audition for Dr. Doom
I thought it might be anachronistic at first but, neat little nod to the expression "The genie is out of the bottle", as it's believed to have originated during the Cold War in reference to nuclear weapons. Not confident the inversion "put the genie back in the bottle" (heard here) is quite so old, though.
nice
Dr. Doom...here is Dr. Doom
Omg thank you. There’s been so much hate for his casting lmao
He'll probably do it with a European accent and his voice echoing from that metallic mask. Not to mention the narcissistic arrogance dialed up to 100!
I can sense Doom
0:13 STEVE SMITH AND 0:22 YOUNG HAN SOLO
I felt like he was attacking me in theaters.
He do it over
He do all the same
that just be how he do sometimes
Tony Stark, Dr. Johnathan Crane, Black Widow, Fake Loki, Edwin Jarvis in a movie
Rodrick Heffley, Josh, Hughie, Freddy Mercury
Thomas Shelby
Yeah he can probably play doom
This movie show is the acting skills of Robert Downey Jr, without Iron Man.
Jarvis do me favour this is my variant?
Hey man, what version of “Fusion” did you use for this video? Is sounds awesome!
He’s good in this movie.
ngl i ve never seen a more complete solo performance than robert s
RDJ just needs to channel this level of hate for Reed Richards in the MCU as Doctor Doom and you get another Oscar worthy performance
Not to mention dial up the gravitas and narcissistic arrogance to 100!
Christopher Nolan is my 2nd favorite movie director (behind Steven Spielberg)