Piripi Waretini as Queequeg, he upstaged Patrick Stewart,
Ismael, Father Mapple, all of them.
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.
Terminator, Ahh-nold was upstaged by the formerly very hot Linda Hamilton and a liquid metal guy!
Jack Nicholson has a way of doing that. A Few Good Men is another example.
In any story the main protagonist is a complex character with much more attention paid to the detail of their development. Secondary characters are often more interesting because they are 2 dimensional representations of specific character elements.
Louis Gossett, Jr. in An Officer and a Gentleman.
I couldn't agree more. His success is simply amazing given his complete and total lack of any acting ability.
I was going to mention Tombstone and Doc as well.
I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark,
When he made Pearl Harbor.
I miss you more then that movie missed the point,
And that’s an awful lot girl.
And now, now you’ve gone away,
And all I’m trying to say,
Is Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
He was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
He’s way better then Ben Affleck.
And now all I can think about is your smile,
And that ——ty movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you
(Interlude)
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies.
I guess Pearl Harbor sucked,
Just a little bit more then I miss you.
I thought John Cazale as Fredo was the best performance of Godfather II.
Kathy Bates outshined James Caan in Misery.
The Titanic fared better than Leonardo What’s His Name!
Jonathan Lipnicky(s) trounced Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire. Even the tripods in War Of The Worlds beat Cruise.
Christoph Waltz as the Nazi Colonel in “Inglorious Basterds”. Totally upstaged Brad Pitt, whose performance as a Jewish Lt from the Ozarks was really (really) painful to watch.
Any Troy Donahue movie, in which Troy was upstaged by just about everything in the movie, including the shrubbery, city streets, and parked cars.
WEST SIDE STORY in which Richard Beymer, as Puerto Rican “Tony” , was upstaged by a fire hydrant, and an iron tenement fire escape stairway.
Good point about Dean, though, in Giant.
There are lots of interesting still photos I have in a book
taken during the shooting of the film.
Dean effortlessly upstaged just about everyone in everything he was in , including his first Broadway play, SEE THE
JAGUAR. He did it because he had less vanity than his co-stars, was more serious about his craft,and was more maladjusted. The makings of an artist!
2008 Republican Ticket...(Oh, wait. That was real!)
By the very nature of the character, the Joker HAS to upstage Batman. The actor playing the Joker will have totally failed otherwise.
In DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, Steve Martin upstaged his own lead character when he did his bit as “Ruprecht”!
He looks like a movie star should, though.
What is interesting about Silence of the Lambs, is that Hopkins took the Lecter character way beyond what was in the book and made him the evil force he was. In the novel by Thomas Harris, he is nowhere near the dominating presence. In fact Harris basically re-wrote the character in his later novels to reflect what Hopkins did with him onscreen.
I also look on Silence of the Lambs as the best example of the rare case where the movie is better than the book.
Tom Arnold upstaged Arnold in True Lies. He was hilarious!
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