Posted on 03/23/2013 5:46:51 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I've always been interested in movies in which the main characters were upstaged by another character. One such movie as an example was "Giant" in which James Dean as Jett Rink completely overshadowed Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor as Bick and Leslie Benedict.
Rarely has a movie been so completely stolen by a character. While Hudson and Taylor had scenes together that bordered on producing yawns, Jett Rink completely fascinated the viewer. Even when Rink waved his hand goodbye, he did it in such a way that the viewers found riveting. Also fascinating was the transformation of the older Rink into a mean drunk. Another thing is that James Dean at least made the effort to sound like a Texan which Rock Hudson was apparently unable to do which is another reason why his Bick Benedict character was unconvincing.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”, a 1945 MGM film where George Sanders so thoroughly pocketed the movie from Hurd Hatfield that poor Hatfield didn’t even know it was being stolen from under him.
Where did you find a Korean subtitled show?
Good clip, I’ve never actually saw the movie. Is the whole movie worth watching?
Meh, It was a classic 80’s teen flick about angst in the pangst.
Opps! Wrong film.
Silverado is CLASSIC!!!!
An all time fave of mine.
Thanks for the link.
THE JERK with Steve Martin. There is a cut scene with Gailord Sartain which upstaged Martin so bad.
After Martin gets rich, various charities beg him for money.
The first: is a preacher who shows Martin photos of abused children.
Martin: OH MY GOD! (grabs for his check book).
The second: is when GAILORD SARTAIN (in an uncredited role) tries to convince Martin to give him $2,000 so he can get the seats fixed in his airplane so he can take his friends to the SUPER BOWL in the style they are accustomed to.
It has been cut and if you ever get to see it you will see why as it completely upstages martin.
The third: Still in the film, is the cat juggling scene.
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That gives me more respect for Schwarzenegger -- though he may not have known what was going on.
Some actors won't let anybody upstage them. Harrison Ford is a pretty dull guy, but when he bothers to get up from his money-filled mattress to appear in a film he doesn't let anybody steal a scene from him (so far as I know).
You could say the same about Eddie Murphy's bumbling twin brother in another Martin movie, Bowfinger.
Will do, thanks.
Grumpy Old Men - Ann Margaret in red bathing suit romping
in the snow / Walter and Jack who...?
1) Hollywood always makes its liberals bland and uninteresting. It turns conservatives into jokes or clowns or devils, but doesn't want to show the objectionable side of its liberal heroes, so it ends up saying very little about them at all. There are some exceptions, of course, but it's not the norm. So, for example, in Game Change Hollywood will "courageously take on" Sarah Palin, but refuse to even include the stuff about the Democratic candidates in its film.
2) In political dramas on the All the King's Men model, the star role, the ego-gratifying, career-expanding top role goes to the main politician, but it's a secondary character who's onscreen most of the time. Not Broderick Crawford, but John Ireland. Not John Travolta, but Adrian Lester. Not Sean Penn, but Jude Law. Not George Clooney, but Ryan Gosling. So it can be hard to say just who is the star and who's the supporting actor or who is upstaging whom. Kevin Costner recognized this and took the role of a Kennedy aide rather than JFK himself in Thirteen Days (that may have been one of the few authentic things about the movie).
Platoon. Charlie Sheens character was upstaged by almost all the supporting cast, Forrest Whitiker, Keith David, Kevin Dillion, John McKinnley,even Mr Dye I think that is his name was a better character then Charlie Sheen and of course Wilem Defoe was amazing. I know it was a total anti-war movie but it was a good movie.
Clearly the best movie to come out of Vietnam. The personal feud between Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe made the flick.
Taps was I think one of Toms best movies. He was so good in it but so were all the actors even do I dare say—— Sean Penn, flame away.
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