Nah....not really, by that logic Michael Jordan in space jam would win.
Way OT. Hollywood's best castings of historical figures.
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Physical appearance and voice have only a small part of the portrayal.George C Scott neither looked nor sounded like Patton, though I loved him in the role
Patton speaks at about 1:05 on this video:
I’ve always felt Seka represented herself well in this little diddie....
I don’t mean to derail this thread, but as a classroom teacher for 40+ years, I often used a quote from Bolt’s play in mentoring beginning teachers:
More asks Richard Rich, “ Why not be a teacher? You’d be a fine teacher ....”
Rich replied, “ if I were, who would know it?
More’s classic retort: “ You, your pupils, your friends, and God. Not a bad public, that.”
Especially early in my career, those words often carried me through some tough times.
George C Scott neither looked nor sounded like Patton, though I loved him in the role
Patton speaks at about 1:05 on this video:
Thank you for sharing this as it makes me like him even more. The way he talks reminds me of Buddy Hacket.
Are there an good biographies of Patton out there that are a good read?
How about Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson? While Wooderson isn't a historical character we all grew up somewhere and there was definitely a Wooderson in that town.
Damian Lewis as Dick Winters, Band of Brothers and the actor that played Bill Guarnere
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David Bowie as Nikola Tesla (The Prestige), Andy Warhol (Basquiat). and Pontius Pilate (Last Temptation of Christ).
George C Scott neither looked nor sounded like Patton, though I loved him in the role
Patton speaks at about 1:05 on this video:
True. He did not look much or sound anything like Patton, but Patton's son once said that George C.Scott was more Patton than Patton. I'll take his word for it.
Disagree! Hated the very idea of Charlize playing that part. Why take a beautiful woman and try to make her ugly? Are there not naturally less-than-beautiful actresses out there that can use a part?
I won't say that flick is my favorite, but it's pretty high on the list, and the clip is wonderful...a cinema classic.
Here's another great line from the movie, apropos to our own day of the plague and taken from More's trial:
Death . . . comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for Kings he comes, to whom amidst all their Royalty and brute strength he will neither kneel nor make them any reverence nor pleasantly desire them to come forth, but roughly grasp them by the very breast and rattle them until they be stark dead! So causing their bodies to be buried in a pit and sending them to a judgment . . . whereof at their death their success is uncertain.
The message: we're all gonna die, and it ain't gonna be a pleasant experience.
So perhaps frantically trying to outwit the virus at the expense of our country's welfare is not a great idea.
Then again, that's just a thought in the spirit of Good Friday. I could be wrong.
Ben Kingsley - Ghandi
Tom Hulce - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tom Hulce - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mel Brooks as Gov. William J. Le Petomane.... "nuff said!
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