And he probably would have done the same to Sam Worthington if he had been in the remake a little longer.
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.
George Sanders in All About Eve
Judith Anderson in Rebecca
Ann Savage in Detour
Sidney Greenstreet in Maltese Falcon (Bogart is hard to upstage, but Greenstreet’s character is more interesting)
Sean Connery was in ROBIN HOOD with Kevin Costner for all of 45 seconds...its all it took!
I think in the Lord of the Rings series, that Sam and Golum upstaged Frodo all the time.
Not a movie but a series, “Rawhide” Clint Eastwood played Rowdy Yates.
Small part, lasting impression: Duvall in Apocolypse Now...”I love the smell of Napalm in the morning”.
Have to agree with ya on that one.
BINGO!!!!!!!!
Weekend at Bernie’s II
Characters Larry Wilson and Richard Parker, played by Andrew McCarthey and Johnathon Silverman, are upstaged by Bernie Lomax, who never says a word and is played by Terry Kiser.
A classic movie in the Shakespearian sense, as it has love, death, occult, sex, comic relief, witchcraft, reincarnation and other aspects that any true classic needs.
I’d have to disagree, because the infamous “coin toss scene” from No Country For Old Men just blew everyone away. That one scene guaranteed Javier Bardem the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and the Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar for the movie, as well as one for screenplay and for direction.
The meeting of the killer and just an “everyman” who runs a gas station. Minimalist action, yet even without context with the rest of the movie it is terrifying, with just the projection of “incredibly hostile negative waves” from Bardem.
Everyone in the audience can imagine themselves in the place of the gas station owner. And it’s a scary place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUKq_HgQxfg
That’s very true.
In “The Dark Knight Rises”, I very much enjoyed Tom Hardy’s Bane. Nolan took the Bane character and turned him into a quasi-revolutionary leader. The scene outside the prison, where Bane is standing atop a Tumbler and hectoring the crowd/gathered media - an amazing scene. My first thought when I saw that was “Ah. A little bit of Lenin thrown into the character.”
There’s an old vaudeville axiom about child- or animal-acts - they’re routinely tough acts to follow.
Arguably, these were put in the movie to steal the show, so could be considered “main” actors. Just a few off the top of my head:
Tatum O’Neill in Paper Moon.
Margaret O’Brien in “St. Louis” or pretty much anything.
Jackie Coogan in “The Kid” (alright, too obvious)
Patty Duke in “Miracle Worker”
Jerry Mathers in Hitchcock’s “Trouble with Henry” (perhaps only now in retrospect, though, given his later fame)
Natalie Wood in “Miracle on 34th St”
Roddy McDowell in “How Green was my Valley”
A few animals while also obvious:
Lassie, Flipper, Cheetah, Arnold Ziffel, Trigger, Mr. Ed Flicka, (arguably what made cavalry charges, runaway stagecoaches, and posse-chases exciting were the galloping horses)
And he probably would have done the same to Sam Worthington if he had been in the remake a little longer.
Full Metal Jacket.
Most people I know only watch the first half, just for R Lee Ermey.
Excellent analysis of a truly legendary movie. You are a beacon of light in a dark storm.
I like James Caan, but he was very limited as an actor.
I liked the movie “Thief” even in all it’s hokey 1970’s Gumba glory.
ChaChing!!
No one ever upstaged Sean Connery LOL
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