Kate and Leo: A Decade Later

Revolutionary Road is a movie everyone in their right mind should want to see. That gritty Scorsese golden-boy Leonardo DiCaprio starring opposite that brilliantly daring and fearless Kate Winslet. Two performers of that caliber automatically makes it a film worth seeing when it comes out in 2008.

I had to look at this image for a while before the significance dawned on me. These are the same two crazy lovelorn kids in that one precursor to Pearl Harbor that Celine Dion warbled all over back in 1997. That is how far both of these talented actors have come since James Cameron laid a thin love story over a real-life tragedy in Titanic.

Look at this picture. It doesn’t even remind you of Titanic, does it? And they’re even looking moony-eyed at each other, and still, it looks entirely different. Maybe it’s a Sam Mendes touch, who’s Winslet’s husband and who’s directing Revolutionary Road, a film about “a young couple trying to find fulfillment in an era of conformity,” according to Paramount. Regardless, it’s something to be thankful for, because I remember thinking Leo was a twerp back then, even with his Growing Pains cred.

Now if only Billy Zane could show up and be awesome more regularly, we’d hit the trifecta.