Ben Affleck's New Movie Confirms His Best Genre Is Now...Erotic Thrillers?
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for Deep Water (2022)!
With Deep Water and Gone Girl, Ben Affleck is proving that his best new film genre is erotic psychological thrillers. Although the genre’s heyday was primarily in the 1990s, Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne returned to the screen after a 20-year hiatus to helm the erotic thriller Deep Water, starring Ben and Affleck and Ana de Armas as a dysfunctional married couple who play increasingly dangerous mind-games. Relying on the performances of its leads, the mixed-reviewed conflict of Disney's 2022 movie Deep Water still proves that both Affleck and de Armas have solidified a place in modern erotic thrillers.
Considering Ben Affleck has been one of Hollywood’s top actors since the 1990s, the movie star has ventured into a variety of genres throughout this career. From dramas to war films or superhero movies, Affleck has been able to adapt his talents to different styles throughout various phases of his career, with some of his more recent successes being in roles where he plays a brooding, largely unsympathetic husband in which his real-life persona is used to elevate the character. In the past decade, two of the best examples of these fitting roles for Affleck have been in the sexually-charged psychological thrillers Gone Girl (2014) and Deep Water (2022).
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Unsurprisingly, Affleck’s role as Vic Van Allen has been compared to his performance in David Fincher’s cult classic thriller Gone Girl, in which Affleck played Nick Dunne, who was suspected of killing his wife, Amy. While Affleck surprisingly turns out to be the more sane character in Gone Girl, his persona, style of purveying an indifferent
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