"A movie star in an age without movie stars, Leonardo DiCaprio has always felt like something of an anachronism. Strange as that might be to say about an actor whose angel-kissed image once felt as endemic to the late '90s as mom jeans and the Macarena, his defining roles - even from the beginning - were predicated upon creating a palpable disconnect between the past and the present."
"Steven Spielberg seized on the actor's dreamy atemporality with "Catch Me If You Can," in which DiCaprio effectively played a boy and a man at the same time (a balancing act crucial to that movie's timeless charm and exquisite tenderness), and Martin Scorsese eventually figured out how to retain the essence of DiCaprio's screen persona as the heartthrob matured into his 30s and 40s."
Leonardo DiCaprio projects a movie-star image that feels anachronistic in a modern era without traditional movie stars. His career hinges on an atemporal persona that deliberately creates a gap between historical settings and contemporary sensibilities. Films have relocated classic material to modern contexts or cast DiCaprio as a lingering memory of another era. Directors like Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese used his dreamy, timeless qualities to embody transitions between youth and adulthood. A less vital period between 2004 and 2010 yielded weaker work, after which his momentum began to return with projects such as Shutter Island.
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