...but they just came out!

aren't we all mate.

In the second and third acts, yes, but he does have his own thing going on in the first act. He's absolutely an inversion of that trope, but he's also much more fleshed out than some of the characters he's an inversion of.

Which really speaks to how lazy a lot of those writers were when it came time to flesh out their non-white characters.

Was he magic? I don't remember that bit. Or is that also inverted, the non-magic white guy.

That's a pretty big stretch for his Django character.

His archetype, you will find, is just called a "mentor"

Like Glinda, the Good Witch

I think these two particular roles had a lot of mannerism overlap. That, and it was the same director in a similarly genred historical fiction revenge thriller. In Alita: Battle Angel and Downsizing, he's playing different roles. Its just a shame the material doesn't hold up to his talent for the roles.

But I'll also note that Gary Oldman, in particular, really goes ham with the physical transformation. From slick terrorist in Air Force One to manic ex-con in Harry Potter to... Jesus Christ look at all those facial prostheses in Darkest Hour, its not just the acting but the degree to which he's willing to physically change himself to fit the part.

Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale pull this as well, to really intense effect.

Both his most famous roles have a similar way of speaking because the roles are pretty much the same. The efficient and precise German. The genre is also the same. I've seen a german comedy of his where he is completely different.

I think it's more his expressions, like the tiny details that make you feel like he's really the person he's playing on the screen. Regardless of makeup or physical change, this is noticeable in how Tarantino told him to hold back during rehearsals to really bring out his costars' reactions in the final take of various scenes. That has nothing to do with what the character is or what he's wearing or his physical condition.

I didn't even know Gary Oldman was both Sirius Black and Commissioner Gordon until like 5 years after those movies came out.

How many movies have you seen him in to make a fair comparison?

His best known roles are very similar, true, but there's more to being a great actor than just having a lot of range.

Is the actor german?

His native tongue

Daniel Day Lewis can do some compelling drama roles, but he's one of those method actors who lives as the character until the film is complete. It can make for some powerful films, but sometimes it turns out like Jared Leto's Joker. Or Christian Bale's freakout on set, where he said he was deep in character and some set guy walked through and interrupted the scene.

The duality of man

Django and... shoot, just search for 'tarantino nazi film'