Movie stars -right/wrong for the part

[ComedyPilot]

Anyway, shouldn't the title of the OP be 'Movie stars'......not, 'Movie srars'?

 

[mr_hippo]

Anyway, shouldn't the title of the OP be 'Movie stars'......not, 'Movie srars'?

Correct, I only spotted the typo late last night (my time). Can any mods correct it, please?

 

[ianrauk]

I thought he was great in Leaving Las Vegas, played a drunk very credibly.

Agreed....Also great in Wild At Heart and Raising Arizona...

 

[StuAff]

I stand corrected. Still rubbish, tho'

The idea Pacino and Michael Mann had was that the character had a bit of a coke habit, and the original script made mention of it. The somewhat showboating style does make more sense with that in mind...with that exception (to some) I think the entire cast nailed it, from the big parts (even Val Kilmer) to the smaller roles & cameos (like my favourite punk renaissance man, Henry Rollins). Awesome piece of work. The shootout is to gunplay what the Bullitt chase was to driving scenes.

 

[StuAff]

Right: There are so many candidates, but....Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Managing to make an unhinged criminal terrifying, funny, strangely endearing (not to mention rather more likeable than the Bat), spontaneous yet driven, and utterly, completely, off his rocker. Such a great loss.
Wrong: Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing. I'll give him credit for having a go, and it's a decent film anyway, but.....oh dear.
Wrong/Right: Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. Compared to Brian Cox's very nuanced portrayal as Lektor (changed for copyright reasons) in Manhunter, Tony seems very showboaty and (to some) hammy. But does it work? AFAIC, most definitely. Lecter is not just supposed to be a murderous psychopath, but the kind of witty, urbane, brilliant man you'd love to meet and have around....unless you were on the menu for dinner. Or, as in Clarice Starling's case, he wanted to get inside your head. And Hopkins got that absolutely right.

 

[slowmotion]

The idea Pacino and Michael Mann had was that the character had a bit of a coke habit, and the original script made mention of it. The somewhat showboating style does make more sense with that in mind...with that exception (to some) I think the entire cast nailed it, from the big parts (even Val Kilmer) to the smaller roles & cameos (like my favourite punk renaissance man, Henry Rollins). Awesome piece of work. The shootout is to gunplay what the Bullitt chase was to driving scenes.

Jon Voight was fantastic...... even though I couldn't understand a single word he spoke.

 

[Profpointy]

Another big right is the sublime Poitier in heat of the night

Whils t can't disagree as such, this has to be Steiger's film, who also rather dominates oklahoma as "poor judd is dead"

Regarding an earlier poster's Sherlock Holmes comment, much as I rather like Robert downey's portrayal, jeremy Brett is not merely good, he is Holmes incarnate, living an breathing sraight off the page. Rather too much it tragically turned out as I gather he lost his mind and took his own life.

Another "right" is Alec guiness as George Smilley - though this also applies pretty much anything else he did too to be fair.

William H Macy in the Cooler - a quiet masterpiece of a film, with Macy conveying more in a look than many actors in a page of lines. The other two leads, Maria Bello & Alec Baldwin also excellent, but it's Macy's film all the same and can't imagine anyone else in it.

joe Pesci in Goodfellas - "you think I'm funny?" - scary or what?

or how about Tina Turner in mad max 3 - dominates every scene she's in by sheer "presence", totally in keeping with the role.

Gerald Depardieu in Cyrano - the most tragic lover of them all. a great film, with even the English subtitles in rhyming couplets.

I thin someone was being a bit harsh about Nicholas Cage - wild at heart is excellent, and he's spot on for it, although he's admittedly in a lot of rubbish too.

And greatest ever perfect casting, Katie Johnson as Mrs Lopsided in the ladykillers - bearing in ind she's alongside, Alec Guiness, Herbrt Lom, Peter Sellers and other fine actors.

Terrible casting - bit more tricky - perhaps Roger Moore's Bond?

Dick van dyke as a cockney takes some beating too

The guy playing Hamlet at the globe theatre last year was dreadfull too,

 

[Profpointy]

Wrong -Sylvester McCoy as Dr Who as was Cilin Baker who, in my mind will always be the villainous Paul Merroney in the Brothers.
Wrong but,, to me Batman will always be the slightly camp portrayal by Adam West

Cant agree with that at all. McCoy was a very fine Dr who, and it's not his fault that he was in at the fag end in some rubbish stories. He broguht much needed depth, mystery and otherness, and some real menace to the role. He's a rather good fool alongside McKellerns Lear as well, and also seen him on stage bringing soem gravitas / pomposity in the title role of the Mikado. Bearing in mind Pertwee and to a lesser extent Tom Baker were"my" doctors, i think I'm being fair and objective.

I too like Adam West's Batman - wrong but right might be fair

 

[Fnaar]

Correct, I only spotted the typo late last night (my time). Can any mods correct it, please?

Bradley? Where are you?

 

[jonny jeez]

Whils t can't disagree as such, this has to be Steiger's film, who also rather dominates oklahoma as "poor judd is dead"

Whilst I like Steigers role, I also like Poiter...but whos the best.

there's only one way to find out.

FIGHT- FIGHT.

PS, I still think Poiter steals the film but i know what you mean about Steigers performance. Perhaps because Poitiers "MR" Tibbs is the underdog I find myself rooting for him a little more.

 

[mr_hippo]

Arch mentioned Lord Peter Wimsey in an earlier post and my mind wandered off to two characters of the same era - Jeeves & Wooster and I thought of a strange combination for the roles - if they were the same age as the characters; one is an actor and the other would just need to play himself! David Jason as Jeeves and as Bertie Wooster - the art critic Brian Sewell.

 

[penguinking9]

Arch mentioned Lord Peter Wimsey in an earlier post and my mind wandered off to two characters of the same era - Jeeves & Wooster and I thought of a strange combination for the roles - if they were the same age as the characters; one is an actor and the other would just need to play himself! David Jason as Jeeves and as Bertie Wooster - the art critic Brian Sewell.

Or Boris Johnson.

(Though he's far more intelligent than he lets on)

 

[mr_hippo]

Or Boris Johnson.
(Though he's far more intelligent than he lets on)

Or perhaps Johnson and Sewell but they could quite easily fit into the Moore/Gielgud roles in 'Arthur'!