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A stiff dose of ‘weak sauce’: Paul Dano’s best films – ranked!

After Quentin Tarantino’s unfavourable comments about the actor’s performance in films including There Will Be Blood, we run through the roles that show just how potent he really is

This disquieting narrative debut from the British director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) is a kind of minor Cape Fear. Gael García Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider threatening the apparently perfect life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now looks like a dry run for There Will Be Blood, Dano is the earnest son campaigning for creationism to be taught at school, and sideswiped by the emergence of his sinister half-brother. Variety labelled the film “noxious”. It’s undoubtedly nasty, but Dano helps to lend it a pulse.

Quentin Tarantino Slams Paul Dano as the ‘Weakest F—ing Actor in SAG’ and the ‘Giant Flaw’ in ‘There Will Be Blood,’ Igniting Fan Outrage

Quentin Tarantino is drawing outrage from movie fans on social media for bashing Paul Dano on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” where the Oscar-winning director revealed his picks for the best movies of the 21st century so far. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” was Tarantino’s No. 5 pick. However, he said the movie could’ve ranked in the first or second slots “if it didn’t have a big, giant flaw in it… and the flaw is Paul Dano.”

“Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander. But it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander,” Tarantino said. “[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister. [Daniel] is eating him [alive]. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn’t need a strong foil. The movie needs it. He doesn’t need anything. It’s supposed to be a two-hander and it’s not! … you put him with the the weakest fucking actor in SAG? The limpest dick in the world?”

Quentin Tarantino Has Been Murdered by Zach Woods

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On Thursday, December 4, and Tuesday, December 9, writer and director Quentin Tarantino was fatally owned in a double-tap strike by comedy mercenary Zach Woods. Woods’s vigilante justice was a response to Tarantino’s unwarranted and reality-divorced criticism of Paul Dano on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, where the Kill Bill director called Dano “the weakest fucking actor in SAG.” The comments galvanized seemingly half of Hollywood to unite, “We Are the World” style, in support of Dano and his acting abilities, with even Daniel Day-Lewis coming out of the Reynolds woodwork to protect his boy Eli. But no one’s defense of Dano has been quite as artful and poetic as Woods’s ad hominem eviscerations of Tarantino.

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