After watching several of Dustin Hoffman's films, I have concluded
that he is a great actor with a lot of talent. He can play a lot of
different types of roles and characters. His acting is very convincing.
The film's I've watched starring Dustin Hoffman are: ¡§The Graduate,¡ ¡§
Little Big Man,¡ ¡§Kramer Vs. Kramer,¡ ¡§Tootsie,¡ and ¡§Rainman.¡
The first film I watched was ¡§The Graduate.¡ I thought that this
film was absolutely hilarious, but I'll try not to talk less about the
films and more about Hoffman's performances. He played a young man named
Benjamin who has just graduated college, but has no ambition and doesn't
make his own decisions. Everyone around him tells him what to do.
Benjamin is usually a pretty quiet and shy person and Dustin Hoffman plays
this character well. It seems like he has this blank look on his face
throughout the whole film. This was one of my two favorite films he did.
The second film I watched was ¡§Little Big Man.¡ It was hard for me
to really look at Hoffman's performance because I didn't like his character.
At first I thought that the producer of that film had casted the wrong
actor but after watching more of the film I changed my mind. His character
in this movie was probably difficult to act because of the events that took
place in the film. His character's personality and surroundings changed so
much. One minute Hoffman's character is a white Indian and the next he's a
gunfighter.
I thought that the role that Hoffman played in ¡§Kramer Vs. Kramer¡
was fairly simple, however it showed how he could play diverse roles in
different movies. In this film he played a father who's wife left him and
his son but then returns and attempts to obtain custody of their eight-
year-old son. Hoffman shows how he can act his emotions in this movie. I
was convinced that he probably is a father.
Tootsie...