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Jack Nicholson is the man. There are few movie stars with a storied career like his. Watching him make movies over the years has been one of life's great pleasures.
It's no doubt that Jack N. was a brilliant performer, and he was also gifted with an incredible vocal tone that is (clearly) unmistakable. And by the way, whenever you think about it, an actor's voice (male or female) is usually a HUGE key in whether or not they end up known worldwide. Even Harrison Ford's voice is nearly unmistakable, and that's only one example of hundreds.
Good point! His voice should have been heard for a LOT more than the few seconds he gets here. This is a recent genre of YT videos that tire and bore me. The sublect and visuals may be good, but I just can't take listening to some amateur narrator for 99.9% of the video. I quit after 2 minutes.
You forgot to mention one of the most interesting stories about A few good men. When Nicolson did the “you can’t handle the truth” he performed his close ups and then came back the next day to stand in for Tom cruise during his shots, without being payed extra or taking a cut because he cared about the film and wanted Cruise to be able to perform at his best. Apparently he even delivered the lines the exact same way. What a legend. It’ll be a sad day when he goes.
Five Easy Pieces was his best film. I’m also obsessed with The Last Detail. He’s no dummy having aced the SATs which is a little known fact. When in insane situations I would ask myself “what would Jack Nicholson do”?
He can do whatever he wants. He is the greatest American actor working. He is not defined by genre like a Pacino or Deniro,& has won in either category. But most of all, started out as a screenwriter- so his adlibbing is top shelf.
Had he been alive still, my dad would've jumped at the _Reds_ mention and pulled me in front of the screen to watch... he was an extra in it and was very proud of his efforts hehe! It's actually an amazing film, if a little lengthy. RIP Dad.
I have a perception… and it’s this.. when you’re so damn good as an actor in Hollywood, you’ll know coz they won’t hire you to play an actor. They’ll ask you to play yourself. Only a small handful of actors who can do this. Ones like Ryan Reynolds, Jack Nikoles, and my girl Plaza. Once you have a special character which is yourself. They’ll just hire you to play yourself in movies haha Sam Jackson is another. They’ll ask you never play characters. They only play themselves and I love it! True character and artistry. I’m forgetting a few others who do this but Keanu is another tho his acting range is shorter than a joint. Still love him. Actors like these are truly special.
My favorite actors list: 1. James Dean 2. Heath Ledger 3. Jack Nicholson 4. Robert DeNiro 5. Dustin Hoffman 6. Al Pacino 7. Marlon Brando 8. Paul Newman 9. Burt Lancaster 10. Tony Curtis 11. Yul Brynner 12. Anthony Hopkins 13. Brad Pitt 14. Michael J Fox 15. Dudley Moore 16. Roger Moore 17. Kavin Costner 18. Sean Connery 19, Tom Hanks 20. Robert Duvall 21. Leonardo Di Caprio 22. Orson Welles 23. Timothy Dalton 25. Anthony Edwards
I liked Nicholson's performance in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The character he portrayed was the sorriest loser one can think of, yet he managed to turn himself into a winner under the most hopeless circumstances. It took Nicholson's shamelessness to pull it off convincingly. In his other roles Nicholson came across as something of a bully, in my view. That bullying mode was in full swing in The Shining, yet the character in the book was not a bully. Jack Torrance (in the book) was more like a walking apology. In the man there was a ghastly dissonance between his soft and idealistic political ideas in public and his beastly behavior at home. He was a nice guy of the worst kind, the kind who builds up anger and bottles it up, and ends up venting it on those he loves. In the film Jack's behavior is more like the behavior of a socialite and a hot shot of some kind who has been laughed out of the most important cocktail parties in town. The reasons for swinging the axe differ like night and day.
Stephen King is known to hate Stanley Kubrik's version, right from when he heard details of the script. Felt he missed the point. So you can't pin it on Nicholson, his job is to do his part in the director's vision. He was probably picked with that in mind.
This was amazing! I had no clue Nicholson career spanned SO far. Thanks for posting this was a great breakdown and especially because of how thorough it is. Also I’m now convinced Jim Carrey modeled his career after Jack Nicholson. Lol. Not quite the same success BUT still a good effort.
A great actor indeed. Also, please do some videos on classic actors like Cary Grant, David Niven, Humphrey Bogart, and maybe also on classic directors like Hitchcock.
Honestly the title and thumbnail lead me to believe there was gonna be something more interesting in this video about his life and work. Then just a full timeline of Jack Nicholson's entire work history.
Yeah the videos in this series we usually cover the entire career of an actor with a focus on a certain characteristic of it (Christian Bale being too dedicated for his roles, Daniel Day Lewis becoming the character, Edward Norton being too “passionate”). The intros go over what we cover in the video. Hope you still found some enjoyment in the video!
@@ModMax69 it’s hard to say who is number 1 between the two. They’re both fantastic and also entirely different interpretations. Mark Hammill’s many voice performances also cannot be overlooked.
I will say, as a longtime fan of Jack’s movies, even though he is entertaining in almost everything he does, it’s a bit weird when he basically plays himself over and and over and over. It works, but it hits a little too close to home. Movies like King of Marvin Gardens, Wolf, A Few Good Men and About Schmidt are pretty refreshing since he plays subdued men here who rarely smile or laugh maniacally.
Good point! And he's certainly not the only one of the "The Greats" who seem to mostly play themselves... most have only a handful of roles in their lifetimes where they did something truly truly original that broke the mold!
He is the best actor of his generation competing with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. Most of the roles he played felt like no one else could play.
You should add career timeline to the end of the title too so people know what they are getting and it'll show up in more searches. Really good video and informative on Nicholson's career as a whole!
Jack Nicholson was an awesome actor, movie star, and a living legend, but he's a f'ing a-hole. I imagine that's what made him great, his volatile personality came out in his performances. That said, when I watch entertainers, I don't care if they're a-holes, I assume they all are, until proven otherwise
I must call attention to Jack making a...controversial (Oooh, now THERE'S a big surprise for you...."Jack Nicholson makes BAAAD and 'controversial' off-the-cuff remark shocker! Grrr!) remark. SO WHAT? Free-speech is meant to be a thing in the USA, is it not? The UK doesn't have that except notionally, due to the Official Secrets Act, but we do try, we really really do! But I can totally still see the headlines that were almost identical to my little fictional one. They - i.e. The damned "Industry"! - took such a nauseating joy in denouncing and decrying the guy that they'd spent thirty years if they spent a day, doing almost nothing but laud, acclaim, and extol the endless list of his positive impact upon the entire "Industry" in Hollywood (And other places, let's face it. Some people actually make great motion-pictures outside of the L.A.-centric machinery of producing profitable films for cinema and T.V. (And now for "Electronic media spaces", or some such corporate desire for a slice of a new revenue-source they'd been slow to credit as having reach and impact...but look at the impact it had on Bill Maher...! Tragic.)) that pouncing on ONE one-line pseudo-joke - and it WAS funny even to a severe addict such as myself (Illicit pharmaceuticals, legal biological poisons, gambling, driving fast, talking dirty on the phone, you name it. Sensory stimulation, adrenaline-addiction, substance use disorder, call it what you like; just fuck off and let me do cocaine and heroin parenterally with some adjunctive support from diazepam+temazepam (Or any benzodiazepine going, let's face that too!!) and BOOOZE, for ease of availability, and for taxable revenue for the G without alienating too many supporters...of course!) for his remark about how to approach the dangers of illicit pharmaceutical chemicals in your community as a potential voter, employee, and source of taxable income; he said, "...Just say, "YES!"!, which ran counter to the narrative pimped by most administrations on Earth because they didn't dare legalise and tax products that had been demonised to the point that the lethality of ethanol was utterly forgotten, and it was fine to get all likkered up and beat your wife on Saturday night for sheer toxic masculine beta-cuck-kicks...because then you were "safe", as a mere plastic stereotypical cog in the machinery that could be excised and replaced at any point that you ever stepped out of their, not and never YOUR delineated comfort-zone, i.e. Non-revolutionary center-right pawn, 2-dimensional, cardboard cut-out with as much persona, charm, and/or danger as that same piece of cardboard only after it was left out in the rain, and became papier-mache. So I love it, and him, for the balls to say what many of us think, which is naturally, to "JUST SAY YES, PLEASE!", and to not harm others as we proceed with our sensory indulgence in an entirely anti-Puritan threat to WASP power in the states. BEWARE! Project 2025 and the fanatics that wrote it, MAGAts all, are alive and well and lurking like metastatic cancer-cells about to cause secondaries after surgery removed the discrete primary tumour. So as Governor Gavin Newsom said, "Para bellum!". Watch your ass, and be safe and be happy; pet your lovers and your pussycat and doggles, and feel everything you can, because you've only a little time left, as we all and as we all share the problem that is a mere molecular cellular biochemical conundrum, not the manufacture of a warp-drive; we can do this thing, and when we gain the complete control (More or less; "Control" - another fallacy that some actually fall for...!) of our biology, then we can colonise this galaxy....and NOTHING can stop us...unless saucer-aliens pop up, but I'm not holding my breath on that one...!
55k views on 11/13/24. I have crazy intuition and I have this feeling Jack is going to pass in December. This video is gonna be at like 890k views. This is weird and morbid I know.
@FilmStack The part where you say Jack "sat under a tree and read his book". Thats from an interview with Louis on Maron's podcast. He's not just "somebody".
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jack is a well deserved legend. He’s like al pacino, even if the movie sucks his performance is always top notch. He’s a real actor
Al Pacino was in Jack & Jill. Aside from that, I completely agree.
@ ive never seen that but i guarantee al pacino acting was still top notch
Jack Nicholson is the man. There are few movie stars with a storied career like his. Watching him make movies over the years has been one of life's great pleasures.
It's no doubt that Jack N. was a brilliant performer, and he was also gifted with an incredible vocal tone that is (clearly) unmistakable. And by the way, whenever you think about it, an actor's voice (male or female) is usually a HUGE key in whether or not they end up known worldwide. Even Harrison Ford's voice is nearly unmistakable, and that's only one example of hundreds.
Good point! His voice should have been heard for a LOT more than the few seconds he gets here. This is a recent genre of YT videos that tire and bore me. The sublect and visuals may be good, but I just can't take listening to some amateur narrator for 99.9% of the video. I quit after 2 minutes.
You forgot to mention one of the most interesting stories about A few good men. When Nicolson did the “you can’t handle the truth” he performed his close ups and then came back the next day to stand in for Tom cruise during his shots, without being payed extra or taking a cut because he cared about the film and wanted Cruise to be able to perform at his best. Apparently he even delivered the lines the exact same way. What a legend. It’ll be a sad day when he goes.
Hot take:jack is the greatest actor to ever play himself over and over
Pretty common take
What about Sam Jackson or Morgan Freeman
Bill Murray
Tom Cruise plays himself over & over. Nicholson plays an impossibly wide range of (crazy) personalities. There is a difference
Jack specialized in playing different degrees of “explosive anger.”
I love the scene in The Witches of Eastwick, the monologue in the church where he rants about women and God. Brilliant.
Five Easy Pieces was his best film. I’m also obsessed with The Last Detail. He’s no dummy having aced the SATs which is a little known fact. When in insane situations I would ask myself “what would Jack Nicholson do”?
He can do whatever he wants. He is the greatest American actor working. He is not defined by genre like a Pacino or Deniro,& has won in either category. But most of all, started out as a screenwriter- so his adlibbing is top shelf.
Had he been alive still, my dad would've jumped at the _Reds_ mention and pulled me in front of the screen to watch... he was an extra in it and was very proud of his efforts hehe! It's actually an amazing film, if a little lengthy. RIP Dad.
I know Heath Ledgers joker is legendary but my all timr favourite Joker is jacks, and watching batman 1989 got me into superhero movies
I have a perception… and it’s this.. when you’re so damn good as an actor in Hollywood, you’ll know coz they won’t hire you to play an actor. They’ll ask you to play yourself. Only a small handful of actors who can do this. Ones like Ryan Reynolds, Jack Nikoles, and my girl Plaza. Once you have a special character which is yourself. They’ll just hire you to play yourself in movies haha Sam Jackson is another. They’ll ask you never play characters. They only play themselves and I love it! True character and artistry. I’m forgetting a few others who do this but Keanu is another tho his acting range is shorter than a joint. Still love him. Actors like these are truly special.
My favorite Jack Nicholson movie is The Pledge. Sean Penn Directed and Jack Nicholson stared in it. I even like how it ended.
My favorite actors list: 1. James Dean 2. Heath Ledger 3. Jack Nicholson 4. Robert DeNiro 5. Dustin Hoffman 6. Al Pacino 7. Marlon Brando 8. Paul Newman 9. Burt Lancaster 10. Tony Curtis 11. Yul Brynner 12. Anthony Hopkins 13. Brad Pitt 14. Michael J Fox 15. Dudley Moore 16. Roger Moore 17. Kavin Costner 18. Sean Connery 19, Tom Hanks 20. Robert Duvall 21. Leonardo Di Caprio 22. Orson Welles 23. Timothy Dalton 25. Anthony Edwards
I liked Nicholson's performance in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The character he portrayed was the sorriest loser one can think of, yet he managed to turn himself into a winner under the most hopeless circumstances. It took Nicholson's shamelessness to pull it off convincingly. In his other roles Nicholson came across as something of a bully, in my view. That bullying mode was in full swing in The Shining, yet the character in the book was not a bully. Jack Torrance (in the book) was more like a walking apology. In the man there was a ghastly dissonance between his soft and idealistic political ideas in public and his beastly behavior at home. He was a nice guy of the worst kind, the kind who builds up anger and bottles it up, and ends up venting it on those he loves. In the film Jack's behavior is more like the behavior of a socialite and a hot shot of some kind who has been laughed out of the most important cocktail parties in town. The reasons for swinging the axe differ like night and day.
Stephen King is known to hate Stanley Kubrik's version, right from when he heard details of the script. Felt he missed the point. So you can't pin it on Nicholson, his job is to do his part in the director's vision. He was probably picked with that in mind.
Jack owning Jon Peters is such a boss move, he is a hero.
Absolute legend.
Deniro an “acting giant”?!?! Just because you’re featured in a lot of movies doesn’t make you good. The man had a single character
That's an outstanding legacy he leaves behind
This was amazing! I had no clue Nicholson career spanned SO far. Thanks for posting this was a great breakdown and especially because of how thorough it is. Also I’m now convinced Jim Carrey modeled his career after Jack Nicholson. Lol. Not quite the same success BUT still a good effort.
A true living legend. Wish we had more like him.
His Joker was my favorite of the Jokers. The one liners in that character! And, he was a Businessman, Gangstar, Politician, and villain 😂
Thank you for making this🎉
A great actor indeed. Also, please do some videos on classic actors like Cary Grant, David Niven, Humphrey Bogart, and maybe also on classic directors like Hitchcock.
Seconded. Such videos would be most welcome.
Honestly the title and thumbnail lead me to believe there was gonna be something more interesting in this video about his life and work. Then just a full timeline of Jack Nicholson's entire work history.
Good point, well made.
Yeah the videos in this series we usually cover the entire career of an actor with a focus on a certain characteristic of it (Christian Bale being too dedicated for his roles, Daniel Day Lewis becoming the character, Edward Norton being too “passionate”). The intros go over what we cover in the video. Hope you still found some enjoyment in the video!
Well, occasional clashes with directors and producers apart, the man just worked and watched Lakers' games.
He'll always be in my top 10!
He's in mind too with Al Pacino.
As a forty year old film lover, Jack was always there putting out classics. What a talent 👏
He’s still one of the best Jokers ever. Batman ‘89 is Kino.
Ledger a close 2nd
@@ModMax69 it’s hard to say who is number 1 between the two. They’re both fantastic and also entirely different interpretations. Mark Hammill’s many voice performances also cannot be overlooked.
I will say, as a longtime fan of Jack’s movies, even though he is entertaining in almost everything he does, it’s a bit weird when he basically plays himself over and and over and over. It works, but it hits a little too close to home. Movies like King of Marvin Gardens, Wolf, A Few Good Men and About Schmidt are pretty refreshing since he plays subdued men here who rarely smile or laugh maniacally.
Good point! And he's certainly not the only one of the "The Greats" who seem to mostly play themselves... most have only a handful of roles in their lifetimes where they did something truly truly original that broke the mold!
Easily on the greatest actor ever shortlist
Awesome career retrospective, thankyou for putting it together! I watched the whole video in 2x speed, enjoyed very much!
Great summary without being overly long. Thank you.
Jack holding the axe is so scary 😂
The shinning was the greatest thing ever in cinema history ❤ at least in my opinion
When he isn't Jack Nicholson, he'll always be Jack Napier to me.
Brando the greatest actor of all time....can be seen looking at his cue cards in many scenes from many films.
He is the best actor of his generation competing with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. Most of the roles he played felt like no one else could play.
You should add career timeline to the end of the title too so people know what they are getting and it'll show up in more searches. Really good video and informative on Nicholson's career as a whole!
Note to self: Do whatever the heck you want and you can also be, arguably the greatest actor in the history of cinema.
Nicholson after seeing his first Brando film💀💀💀💀💀💀
Amazing video
Maybe next you could do harrison ford? Or maybe john wayne
Jack in Easy Rider must be the inspiration for The Simpsons' Lionel Hutz.
11:57 That explains why his form was so good lmao.
Rip Shelly Duvall
My man also owns a private island off of the FL keys 💪💪
Thanks for this video!!
Thanks for watching!
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Jack Nicholson was an awesome actor, movie star, and a living legend, but he's a f'ing a-hole. I imagine that's what made him great, his volatile personality came out in his performances. That said, when I watch entertainers, I don't care if they're a-holes, I assume they all are, until proven otherwise
Your videos are awesome!
Good work n’ God bless ya!
SOLI DEO GLORIA
(To The Glory Of God Alone)
Father, Son & Holy Spirit
-Ronnie
( Will pisses on Stewarts shoes ) What are you crazy?
( Will ) NO! I'm just marking my territory, and you got in the way.
My favorite Jack Nicholson movie is Mars Attacks lol
when Marlon Brando does it instead💀
In The Departed, Ed Harris playing a gang boss would've been better than Jack Nicholson playing himself.
Forgot the video was about Jack Nicholson looking at those displates 😂
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Nicholson > Brando
GOAT
What if when 2001 a space odyssey never released
How is someone nominated for so many Oscars and won three by playing the same character in all his films.
Bro it's the first time i see your face, looks like Giovanni Ribisi. 😂
two minute? I got here so early
My acting idol
Wendy,, gimme the bat.
Going South is pretty good. Funny how its PG even though Mary Steenburgen gets her white dress wet and is fully see thru.
I guess I’m to young cause the only thing I know him for is playing the Joker
He has one left in him I reckon
you should hear what he did to Catherine Sheehan...
What If The Russo Brothers directed the first two Avengers films (Avengers 2012 and Age Of Ultron 2015) instead of Joss Whedon
Three Oscars? That's insulting.
How so?
@@michaelgreisinger5255 winning three oscars i meant.
@SumeetMahindroo1990 that's why I asked, how's that insulting? Is it insulting to other actors? Is it insulting to Jack for only winning 3?
Here i'll summarize it for you:
Weeeee look at me guys i'm crazy, i'm a psycho hehehehehehehehehe
Interesting...
I see Twilight Imperium on the shelf. Get that one on the table often? :)
Haha not enough! So hard to get everyone to commit a whole day to it. Only played it a few times so far
I became a homosexual because of jack 🤷🤔💪
We got face reveal❤
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
I must call attention to Jack making a...controversial (Oooh, now THERE'S a big surprise for you...."Jack Nicholson makes BAAAD and 'controversial' off-the-cuff remark shocker! Grrr!) remark. SO WHAT? Free-speech is meant to be a thing in the USA, is it not? The UK doesn't have that except notionally, due to the Official Secrets Act, but we do try, we really really do! But I can totally still see the headlines that were almost identical to my little fictional one. They - i.e. The damned "Industry"! - took such a nauseating joy in denouncing and decrying the guy that they'd spent thirty years if they spent a day, doing almost nothing but laud, acclaim, and extol the endless list of his positive impact upon the entire "Industry" in Hollywood (And other places, let's face it. Some people actually make great motion-pictures outside of the L.A.-centric machinery of producing profitable films for cinema and T.V. (And now for "Electronic media spaces", or some such corporate desire for a slice of a new revenue-source they'd been slow to credit as having reach and impact...but look at the impact it had on Bill Maher...! Tragic.)) that pouncing on ONE one-line pseudo-joke - and it WAS funny even to a severe addict such as myself (Illicit pharmaceuticals, legal biological poisons, gambling, driving fast, talking dirty on the phone, you name it. Sensory stimulation, adrenaline-addiction, substance use disorder, call it what you like; just fuck off and let me do cocaine and heroin parenterally with some adjunctive support from diazepam+temazepam (Or any benzodiazepine going, let's face that too!!) and BOOOZE, for ease of availability, and for taxable revenue for the G without alienating too many supporters...of course!) for his remark about how to approach the dangers of illicit pharmaceutical chemicals in your community as a potential voter, employee, and source of taxable income; he said, "...Just say, "YES!"!, which ran counter to the narrative pimped by most administrations on Earth because they didn't dare legalise and tax products that had been demonised to the point that the lethality of ethanol was utterly forgotten, and it was fine to get all likkered up and beat your wife on Saturday night for sheer toxic masculine beta-cuck-kicks...because then you were "safe", as a mere plastic stereotypical cog in the machinery that could be excised and replaced at any point that you ever stepped out of their, not and never YOUR delineated comfort-zone, i.e. Non-revolutionary center-right pawn, 2-dimensional, cardboard cut-out with as much persona, charm, and/or danger as that same piece of cardboard only after it was left out in the rain, and became papier-mache.
So I love it, and him, for the balls to say what many of us think, which is naturally, to "JUST SAY YES, PLEASE!", and to not harm others as we proceed with our sensory indulgence in an entirely anti-Puritan threat to WASP power in the states. BEWARE! Project 2025 and the fanatics that wrote it, MAGAts all, are alive and well and lurking like metastatic cancer-cells about to cause secondaries after surgery removed the discrete primary tumour. So as Governor Gavin Newsom said, "Para bellum!". Watch your ass, and be safe and be happy; pet your lovers and your pussycat and doggles, and feel everything you can, because you've only a little time left, as we all and as we all share the problem that is a mere molecular cellular biochemical conundrum, not the manufacture of a warp-drive; we can do this thing, and when we gain the complete control (More or less; "Control" - another fallacy that some actually fall for...!) of our biology, then we can colonise this galaxy....and NOTHING can stop us...unless saucer-aliens pop up, but I'm not holding my breath on that one...!
55k views on 11/13/24. I have crazy intuition and I have this feeling Jack is going to pass in December. This video is gonna be at like 890k views. This is weird and morbid I know.
The movie in the hotel in the shining and 1 flew over the cukoos nest where best
With The Departed being the exception, I can’t think of anything after Batman where any of Nicholson’s films were all that great.
As Good As It Gets, About Schmidt , A Few Good Men, Anger Management....he had a few lol
A predator if I ever saw one
Whadda guy
420 views lmao
Another narcissist you all love until the wold finds out about the dark secrets.
Good. Not great, not excellent - Just plain ol' "good" video. Not a "Jack Nicholson" video.
yooo 72 views lol
He just plays himself
Yeah, because Jake Gittes and Jack Torrence are so damn similar. 🤦♂️
Lets his best friend use his house to SA a little girl. Yeah sounds like a real stand up guy.
Sorry, these are not the people I look up to or admire.
Can't stand this guy..
"Somebody" offered Jack a role? That "somebody" was Louis CK and youre a coward for not saying so.
Loool what?
@FilmStack The part where you say Jack "sat under a tree and read his book". Thats from an interview with Louis on Maron's podcast. He's not just "somebody".
He is great, but his joker total joke!
Did bro just revealed his face? That's great 🤍