Blondie.
Posted on 11/25/2015 1:54:57 PM PST by be-baw
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Stallone [was] nominated for Best Actor for playing "Rocky" in 1977. (Peter Finch won for "Network.") He has never been nominated since then. But his work is so good now as the boxing coach for Jordan's Adonis Creed, Stallone is very likely to sweep in and surprise everyone. (This would be bad news for the many other potential nominees from "Spotlight" and other films.)
"Creed" is a total hit, a must see movie for Thanksgiving weekend. Coogler is 29 years old and this is second movie, after the wonderful "Fruitvale Station" Not only has be brought Jordan over from that film, but he’s incorporated Stallone, Rashad, and a terrific cast in a movie that feels deceptively like comfort food but is really haute cuisine.
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In “A Few Dollars More” he’s called Manco.
Clint is right.
Blondie.
I can think of two other actors. Buster Crabbe played both Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon, and Yul Brenner played Chris in two Magnificent Seven films and The Gunslinger in two Westworld movies. In both actors’ cases the different roles are really the same character.
That fits my distinction of roles played multiple times.
Rocky I is a great movie.
Probably Mel Gibson as Mad Max and Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon) and maybe Pacino as Michael Corleone and Tony Montana (except Scarface wasn’t a movie franchise), but still his best known role after the Godfather.
I guess I could add Arnold Schwartzenegger as the Terminator and Conan the Barbarian.
Jimmy Stewart - George Bailey and Jefferson Smith
***Charleton Heston (Ben Hur, Moses-—but Moses was real)***
El Cid
Michelangelo (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
Chrysagon (The War Lord)
Detective Thorn (Soylent Green)
Neville (The Omega Man)
George Taylor (Planet of the Apes)
George Taylor (Khartoum)
Major Amos Charles Dundee
Gen. Andrew Jackson (The Buccaneer)
Mike Vargas (Touch of Evil)
Jimmy Stewart's and Charleton Heston's were "one offs." Really "Sherlock Holmes" was hardly a household name series, though certainly Iron Man is.
And Yul Brenner's Chris was really ONLY known in the first movie. No one thinks of "Chris" in "Magnificent Seven" as the kind of iconic character as they do Rocky or Indiana Jones.
Stallone has now done this same character over a 40 year span. That's pretty incredible. But with Ford coming back the new "Star Wars" movie, he has too.
No, these were one-offs. None of those was a series save “Planet of the Apes.’ But really? Do you really think anyone knows that character and associates George Taylor with CH? I don’t-—I didn’t even know his name til you posted it. It’s nothing like what Stallone and Ford have done (with the help of writers).
How about Arnie?
Those are different characters, not a recurring character as with the “Rocky” films.
Well said.
I generally like to go to RT to get an idea of what critics think of a film, but I take it with a grain of salt. Any movies with a politically correct or generally leftist theme will be 'graded on a curve'. Main characters 'of color' tend to skew the ratings higher. For example: 'Selma' received a 99% positive rating from RT, while 'American Sniper' was in the mid 70's.
Anecdotal? Yes. But this pattern is a pretty consistent one at RT.
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