Who Definied Each Decade?

[bankholdup]

I thought this could make for interesting discussion. Just name any decade or two or three or whatever, and name who defined that particular decade for films.


1920s: Charlie Chaplin
1930s: Marx Brothers
1940s: Humphrey Bogart
1950s: Marilyn Monroe
1960s: Paul Newman
1970s: Al Pacino
1980s: Steven Spielberg
1990s: Tom Hanks


Those are off the top of my head. With more thought, better answers may be available.

[Hannibal21]

Off the top of my head....

1910s: Mary Pickford
1920s: Charlie Chaplin
1930s: Bette Davis
1940s: Humphrey Bogart
1950s: Marlon Brando
1960s: Paul Newman
1970s: Robert De Niro
1980s: Tom Cruise
1990s: Tom Hanks

[Michael_myers]

1920's: Chaplin
1930's: Clark Gable
1940's: Bogart
1950's: Hitchcock
1960's: Newman
1970's: Al Pacino
1980's: Jack Nicholson
1990's: Tom Hanks
2000's (so far): Kate Hudson

[Sigur509]

1920's: Chaplin
1930's: Gable
1940's: Bogart
1950's: Hitchcock
1960's: Newman
1970's: Pacino
1980's: Steven Spielberg
1990's: Steven Spielberg or Tom Hanks

[Brock-Landers]

1920's: Charlie Chaplin
1930's: Clark Gable
1940's: Humphrey Bogart
1950's: Marlon Brando
1960's: Paul Newman
1970's: Al Pacino
1980's: Steven Spielberg
1990's: Tom Hanks
2000's: Peter Jackson

[zeppelin]

1920s: Charlie Chaplin
1930s: Clark Gable
1940s: Humphrey Bogart or Orson Welles
1950s: Alfred Hitchcock
1960s: Stanley Kubrick or Paul Newman
1970s: Francis Ford Coppola or Robert De Niro
1980s: Steven Spielberg
1990s: Tom Hanks or Quentin Tarantino

[ColinM]

1920s: Charlie Chaplin
1930s: Bette Davis
1940s: Humphrey Bogart
1950s: Marilyn Monroe
1960s: Paul Newman
1970s: Robert De Niro

I think we'll have to see what time will tell on the 80s on. Tom Hanks does sound like a good choice for the 90s, though.

[docholiday_13]

60's Steve fucking McQueen
70's Al Pacino
80's Arnold Schwarznegger (how the fuck do you spell that?)
90's Tom Hanks

2000's Russel Crowe or maybe Colin Farrel.

[bankholdup]

I'm gonna bump this up. This kinda got lost pretty quickly.

[Jasonite]

1910's: DW Griffith
1920's: Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton
1930's: Clark Gable & Spencer Tracy
1940's: Humphrey Bogart, unquestionably--there'll never be another
1950's: Marlon Brando revolutionized film acting
1960's: Hmm. This is a tough decade, as so many things began to happen here..I'm not sure there is a clear singular influence.
1970's: Al Pacino, for actors. Spielberg & Lucas for influence.
1980's: Spielberg and Scorsese
1990's: for actors, it belonged to Kevin Spacey--wanna know why, just ask me. Director-wise, probably Tarantino.



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[James Logan]

1920s: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
1930s: The Marx Brothers
1940s: Humphrey Bogart
1950s: Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando and Marylin Monroe
1960s: Paul Newman and Steve McQueen
1970s: Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro
1980s: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas (through production and ILM)
1990s: Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman

2000s prediction: Colin Farrell, Ed Norton, Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Mel Gibson (as a director, perhaps?), Catherine Zeta-Jones, M. Night Shyamalan, P.T. Anderson...

[Annie Hall]

1920's: Chaplin
1930's: Clark Gable and Katharine Hepburn
1940's: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
1950's: Marilyn Monroe and Marlon Brando
1960's: Paul Newman and Audrey Hepburn
1970's: Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro
1980's: Tom Cruise
1990's: Kevin Spacey
2000's (so far): Colin Farrell

Possible predictions: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire and others

[Lazy Boy]

1920s: Charlie Chaplin
1930s: Clark Gable
1940s: Humphrey Bogart
1950s: Marlon Brando
1960s: Stanley Kubrick
1970s: Jack Nicholson
1980s: Steven Spielberg
1990s: Tom Cruise
2000s: don't know quite yet

[Ren Hoek]

1920s: Charles Chaplin and Fritz Lang
1930s: John Ford and The Marx Brothers
1940s: Alfred Hitchcock, Bogart and Bergman
1950s: Stanley Donen and Marilyn Monroe
1960s: Stanley Kubrick, Francois Truffaut, Frederico Fellini
1970s: Francis Ford Coppola and Robert DeNiro
1980s: Steven Spielberg and the triumvirate of evil: Simpson-Bruckheimer-Silver
1990s: Quentin Tarantino and John Lasseter

[Hannibal21]

I think either Nicole Kidman or Colin Farrell will have the best chances of defining the 2000's, but we'll wait and see....