Leonardo DiCaprio: Serious Fucking Business

I gotta hand it to DiCaprio: he's worked with some of the best directors in the world and is seemingly adamant about not appearing in stupid big-budget action movies like even the best actors in his echelon do (now watch, he's gonna get attached to play the villain in Spider-Man 4). He clearly takes the craft extremely seriously, and I respect that.

Nevertheless, he's essentially picked the same part to play for the last several years: these sort of earnest-yet-tough do-gooders in The Gangs of New York, Blood Diamond, The Departed, and now Body of Lies, albeit each with a different accent. And from what I can tell from the trailer of Revolutionary Road, he plays pretty much the same character in that, too.

That's all well and good--clearly he's doing exactly what he wants to do--but it just seems to me that he's unintentionally type-casting himself. I haven't seen the Aviator, so I suppose this analysis isn't exactly fair, but come on, he hasn't done anything remotely light, for instance, since Catch Me if You Can. Would it kill him to do a comedy? Not some stupid Adam Sandler thing; maybe something like the Coen brothers. I'm not saying I'm just dying to see Leo in a comedy; I just find it odd to see him year after year in the exact same role, especially since we all know, mostly from movies long ago (Gilbert Grape, Basketball Diaries, Total Eclipse, etc etc etc) that the guy's got an amazing range.