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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Geriatric Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen as the middle-aged leading couple in the miniseries "Winds of War." (I've been complaining about that one for 30 years now.)

Middleaged Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson in Pride and Prejudice (1940), playing characters half their age. Every character in that film was also off, but that may have been writing/direction, not actual miscasting.

Pride and Prejudice (2005), also miscast in that the leads were too attractive. Lizzie is not supposed to be the most stunningly beautiful woman in the room and Darcy should appear to have an arrogance that requires £10,000 a year to compensate. That said, Knightly hit the role, MacFadyen not so much.
But the real miscast was Mr Bennett, who has taken to his library and sarcasm in refuge from reckless marriage to incompatible spouse. His one concern is to guard Lizzie from making the same mistake he did as a foolish youth, 20 odd years ago. And they cast 70 year old Donald Sutherland!

48 posted on 12/01/2012 7:43:57 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (By doubting we come to inquiry, and through inquiry we perceive truth. -; Peter Abelard)
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To: Oztrich Boy

I thought Knightly was great in Pride and Prejudice, but you are right about Sutherland. Mr. Bennett is not supposed to be a worn out old man.


199 posted on 12/02/2012 8:47:46 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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