It doesn’t get any greener than this: Leo DiCaprio, legs pedaling furiously as he weaves his way through the London traffic. He’s probably on the way to a meeting with someone who makes wind farms for Africa, who knows? Hell, it’s green enough for the papers to pick up on it sharpish when he got snapped by paps a couple of weeks back.
Wraparound shades clamped over his dial: baseball cap underneath his helmet (an interesting look in itself – perhaps it prevents the inevitable mad hair when the hard hat comes off?).
It’s a mark of celebrity-about-town. We’re very glad that Mr DiCaprio chooses to travel round the capital on two wheels when he’s over. In fact we’re so glad, we’ve decided to make a little investigation into his film career. Come closer, conspiracy nuts.
You see, we reckon that you can draw a line from Leo’s very earliest film work all the way to the present that involves bikes. Honestly. There’s a Dan-Brown-Style mystical subtext here if you really dig down for it.
How about an easy starter: 2008’s plaudit-winning love-in Revolutionary Road. Revolution: as in, wheel going round? It’s almost too easy. Just two years earlier, Leo starred in the blockbusting ethic-fest Blood Diamond. So, is it a coincidence that the Diamond frame is the most popular layout for bikes? Is it?
Perhaps you need more. How about the Scorsese-directed historical punch-up Gangs of New Forks? Where Leo plays Amsterdam Vallon, named after Europe’s most bike-friendly city? Or 1998’s underachieving flick, Man in the Iron (Smog) Mask?
It’s obvious when you look. Next week, maybe we’ll uncover the secret connection between Rihanna and the heightened hurricane threat in the Gulf of Mexico. Umbrella, anyone?
Ed Chipperfield
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Tags: Amsterdam, Blood Diamond, Dan Brown, Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road, Rihanna
lol, Dicaprio kills it in his latest movie. I wish I’d never seen Inception! It’s such a crazy movie that I think it destroyed the chances for me to enjoy any other movie!