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Actors Breakthrough Role Poll 🎬

  • The Graduate (1967) - Dustin Hoffman 16
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Marlon Brando 13
  • Big (1988) - Tom Hanks 38
  • Bonnie & Clyde (1967) - Gene Hackman 15
  • Conan the Barbarian (1982) - Arnold Schwarzenegger 37
  • Primal Fear (1996) - Edward Norton 23
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Leonardo DiCaprio 10
  • Saturday Night Fever (1977) - John Travolta 11
  • 2024-08-27
  • —2024-08-29
  • 163 votes
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I've been through all your suggestions from the other day and chose these eight movies for you all to deliberate over 🤔 Excited to see which movie wins 😄

Voting ends Thursday (29th) night ⛔

Comments

Tic Toc Melody

Would LOVE to see "The Graduate", would love to see "Streetcar Named Desire".....but I've never, ever seen a reaction to "Bonnie And Clyde", so that most definitely will be my choice! Also breakout role for Faye Dunaway....her even moreso! She's Bonnie!!!

N M

Fast Times at RIDGEMONT High

Robert Jewell

I'm going for...no, wait I'm picking...er, hold on a sec, it's...no, no, no, gotta go with...

Gene Hendricks

"Dawn Marie, what is best in life?" ;)

Dag Einar Bergli

Primal Fear is such a gem. And so is Edward Norton.

Yorkshire Shaft

Some good ones on this one but I've voted against conan two many times. Think it's fair I let them who have waited for that one get to see it in Dawny Vision.

JL Green

For the pure entertainment and epic scope as well as a great score it's Conan hands down! 😃

Alvin Helms

I wouldn't call it 'boring'. The sedative effect is countered by the powerful urge to bash your own skull open to escape.

Alvin Helms

To watch your movies, to see them playing before you, and to hear the lamentation of their critics.

Bob McFadden

It was a tough choice, but I voted for SNF because I thought Dawn would enjoy a peek into a bygone era filled with music and dancing. Conan is fun, though, hard to beat Arnold and James Earl Jones.

Louis Marzullo

Made its lead an int'l superstar, launched a global dance, music & fashion craze, boasts one of the best & best-selling soundtracks ever, selected for preservation by U.S. Library of Congress Nat'l Film Registry, influenced pop culture for decades, unleashed Fran Drescher's voice on the world (oops, can't win 'em all! 😄)... Not bad for a "boring" movie.

zynjams

are you kidding me? Saturday Night Fever is losing?

Elliot Nesterman

Bonnie and Clyde also has Gene Wilder in his first screen role, though The Producers was the film that made him a star.

Bartleby

FYI Dawn prefers not to have the movies spoiled for her. Hopefully she’ll forget all about your post here if and when she should watch the movie

Bartleby

Can’t help but notice there are no actresses in this breakout role poll. I think Dawn didn’t want to run the risk of being landed with a lead female character she hated. 😂

Edward Olson

And your notion is that giving massive amounts of information about a film ahead of time and how she should feel about I isn't a spoiler? Give me a break!

Edward Olson

Saturday Night Fever has too much music to edit easily for copyright, and it wasn't John Travolta's breakout role.

Louis Marzullo

Ok, I'll bite. Carrie? The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? Just please don't say Vinnie Barbarino.

Eric Janssen

Although, to go from Vinnie Barbarino to Tony Manero definitely qualifies as a breakout…

Louis Marzullo

Haha, big stretch! Didn't even have to leave Brooklyn! Just take the subway from Bensonhurst to Bay Ridge! 😄

Bill W

Yeah, I know there were at least a couple in the suggestions... Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence..

Bartleby

I suggested the movie Elizabeth for Cate Blanchett Who is criminally underrepresented on Dawn’s channel. Though she hasn’t watched even one Meryl Streep movie yet so…. (Psstt…. Note to Dawn, Check out the movie “The Bridges of Madison County” starring and directed by Clint Eastwood for your first introduction to Meryl Streep) Maybe actresses will get their own breakout role poll some time.

zynjams

you gave up nothing, the music, the gritty 70s time, working class people out for good time. its great movie, you spoiled nothing.

zynjams

also, it means nothing, she will watch Conan and trash the rest

Bartleby

I think Patrons and YouTube subscribers are more concerned about music copyrights than the YouTube reactors are. Because I’ve seen tons of channels react to all sorts of musicals all the time. From Little Shop of Horrors to Grease to The Nightmare Before Christmas. I don’t think Dawn had any idea that Saturday Night Fever featured music so prominently. She put it in the poll. It just didn’t win. And if a film does feature so much music it’s an issue, it can always be done as a Patreon Exclusive But no, Dawn has never expressed any inclination to not do music heavy movies. In fact she’s said the opposite and says she’s open to all movies.

Mark Crawford

Wow - dead heat between Conan and Big!

Greg Kipp

I am firmly in the corner of Conan! We cant let Big win 😡

Yorkshire Shaft

Difference is Dawny isn't Disney who think everything has to have a strong female lead. she understands that white men still have a purpose in film and society Lmfao!

Bartleby

Can’t express enough how happy I am Conan didn’t lose out to Big. Was close there for a second! A two way tie between Tom Hanks and Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a bad start at all for the first actor breakout role poll. Two icons of cinema so radically different from one another!

Louis Marzullo

No, not everything. But how about just one? Like this Sunday's offering. Can you handle it?