I suspect the film makers were less concerned with acting and more interested in getting Connery into that suspendered jock-strap costume.
Posted on 12/01/2012 6:09:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Even good actors sometimes get horribly miscast in the wrong roles. The case most often cited is this first one in which John Wayne played an odd role for him...a Mongol warrior.
John Wayne: Miscast as Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror," the Duke had to utter lines like: "My blood says, take this Tartar woman."
Susan Hayward: Co-starring as the tartar woman love interest in "The Conqueror." Yeah, an Irish chick from Brooklyn as a Tartar woman on the Asian steppes. The closest thing about Hayward to a tartar is that she had a tart tongue.
Chuck Connors: Tall, blond, blue-eyed, Connors somehow was chosen to portray an Apache Indian barely five feet tall. Does not compute!
George Peppard: I really enjoyed watching "The Blue Max." My favorite aerial movie about WWI. However, one person just did not fit the role...George Peppard as Lt. Bruno Stachel. Peppard was simply too American to convincingly portray a German. Oh, and you don't have to be a German to portray a German since two English actors in the same movie were very convincing as German officers: James Mason and Jeremy Kemp.
Laurence Olivier: Yes, even actors at the top of the acting profession can be horribly miscast as Olivier was as General Douglas McArthur in "Inchon." Thankfully very few people have seen Olivier in his completely miscast role.
Leslie Howard: I recently saw "Gone With The Wind" again for the umpteenth time and noticed that Leslie Howard was quite long in the tooth to be playing the youthful Ashley Wilkes. And did Southern gentlemen talk with British accents?
Jimmy Stewart: Stewart was almost twice the age of the 25 year old Lindbergh when he flew solo across the Atlantic. Sorry, but mere hair dye does not make one convincingly youthful in "The Spirit of St. Louis." Actually, George Peppard would have been good in the role of Lindbergh...if he mastered Lindbergh's slightly sing-song upper Midwest accent.
Richard Burton: As Leon Trotsky in "The Assassination of Trotsky."
Charlton Heston: His miscasting in "A Touch of Evil" was so horrible that it was even referenced in "Ed Wood" when Wood ran into Orson Welles at a bar and after telling Welles about being forced to miscast roles, Welles replied: "Tell me about it. I'm supposed to do a thriller for Universal. They want Charlton Heston as a Mexican."
Did you know, Simpson's name had originally been floated for the lead in Terminator, but James Cameron nixed the idea since he felt Simpson would not make a convincing killing machine.
Seriously.
Childs is a major liberal progressive and i hear his books reflect that
Is that true?
We even had a thread on this....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2875689/posts
I think Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory is probably closer to the mark.That would be Dr. Bialik, who in real life has a PhD in neuroscience.
That may have something to do with her terrific performance on The Big Bang Theory. Or maybe she's just a good actor.
Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell in “The Medicine Man”.
Too much age difference for the love interest in that film.
Apple Blossom
Maybe. There was a lot of opposition to casting Mia as Daisy.
But for many of us who saw the film, it's hard not to think of the book in terms of the movie. However awful Robert Redford may be in however many ways, he did make the role his own, at least for me.
I'm not sure about Tobey McGuire as Nick in the new version, though. Come to think of it I'm not sure about Tobey McGuire as Spiderman, though at this point it's hard to accept Andrew Garfield in the role.
Amy Farah Fowler is hilariously perfect. You may have a point.
Come to think of it, does George Washington come off well in movies or television?
Barry Bostwick, Jeff Daniels, Adam West, Kelsey Grammar, David Morse, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Graves?
I thought Peck taking a full running leap and knocking over a table of food while tackling another idiot Nazi for some offense was hilarious.
I suspect the film makers were less concerned with acting and more interested in getting Connery into that suspendered jock-strap costume.
I read the book (a couple times) before the movie. I think that Redford was already too much of an established "A-lister" and too familiar for a character who was supposed to have suddenly shot to the top from a murky, obscure past; Redford would have made a better Tom Buchanan.
You're right on about Toby McGuire. He's too much a whiney, snively brat. Carraway was something of a stoic, traditionalist with midwestern sensibilities. I'll be very surprised if he pulls it off.
John Wayne as Moses.
ditto for thinking Sean Connery could be disguised as a Japanese in "You Only Live Twice."
Elvis Presley as Rusty Wells in “Girl Happy”.
He was good in “The Fisher King”
Apple Blossom
When I saw the movie, I wasn't familiar with the actors, so it was easy for me to imagine that they were Gatsby and Daisy, Nick and Tom. Karen Black, though, as Myrtle was too over the top for me.
There was also an A&E television version. I remember it as Paul Rudd as Gatsby, which would really have been miscasting, but actually he was Nick, and wasn't awful in the role. Gatsby was Toby Stephens, an English actor who maybe did have that "came from nowhere and shot to the top" quality. Daisy was Mira Sorvino -- not quite right.
In one of my "Hollywood" readings, I remember reading about some studio suits discussing some project, and they wanted a cameo role by some big name star. "And not like that 'He truly was the Son of God' appearance crap..."
What was really irritating was the huge, comic hillbilly-type beard Sheen had. Lee actually had a much shorter, carefully trimmed beard. I never once thought that Sheen was anything but Martin Sheen with a bad beard riding a horse.
Yea but we discovered he could sing! He wasn’t so bad.
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The Black Shield of Falworth - Tony Curtis & Janet Leigh
False quotation
“The film is famous for an apocryphal line, rendered as “Yonda stands da castle of my fodda” or similar. The plot details above show that this would not fit the story: there is no “castle of my father”. The line is said to have come from a remark made by Debbie Reynolds on television.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Shield_of_Falworth
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