Chris'Plummers CHANG

[RobertScorpio]

Okay, had to finish the voyage of the movie Klingon actors..(yes I know there were others, but I thought these three were the main ones in terms of screen time)

I love Christopher Plummers Chang for many reasons..the first? Make-up. I thought his subtle Klingon make-up was spot-on. It allowed the actor to still come through the makeup, and Christopher Plummer is one of our better actors. To have lost his face in the Gamera plating would have been real bad..I have read somewhere that he demanded the make up not be so pronounced..if he did, then good for him. I thought the turtle head era got out of hand..even DORN looked better in TUC, IMO

And he hold his own with Shatner, his understudy from years past, just fine. His delivery was also subtle, but with power when he needed it. He, I believe, gives the best movie KLINGON perfomance, easily out doing Lloyd and Warner. Yes, I know many of you will counter that statement, and that is cool. But it is just my personal opinion.

So that is my run through the movie Klingons...some very interesting comments through-out this journey!!!

Rob
Scorpio

 

[A beaker full of death]

He did indeed turn in his usual fine performance. It's just a shame he was given such crap dialogue.

 

[RobertScorpio]

He did indeed turn in his usual fine performance. It's just a shame he was given such crap dialogue.

Dude....love that avatar. In fact, it looks more real than the cartoon movies we have been getting in recent years..

Rob
scorpio

 

[A beaker full of death]

Thanks!

 

[rocketscientist]

He did indeed turn in his usual fine performance. It's just a shame he was given such crap dialogue.

Dude....love that avatar. In fact, it looks more real than the cartoon movies we have been getting in recent years..

Rob
scorpio

I love it too! I loved watching The Incredible Hulk as a kid. Despite the sfx at the time (basically, next to nothing), I thought it was a very well written and acted show (even if it adhered to The Fugitive concept).

Bixby was a wonderful actor and director, just a guy you could really like and relate too. Lou Ferrigno's recent comments about him were really touching.

I remember seeing him in his yacht in Marina Del Rey when I was learning to sail as a kid.

Anyway, wrt Chang, I agree that he was the best movie Klingon. Again, I really liked the fact that the Klingons in TUC were more subtle. Plummer's make-up and costume really set him apart from the rest and his delivery was just great. He had the same flair and nastiness as Khan did. They say the mark of a good movie is oftentimes proportional on how great the villain is and, with TUC, they had another winner with Plummer's Chang.

And how can Shakespeare be "crap dialogue?"

 

[A beaker full of death]

^ yeah, great series.

It can be crap dialogue when it's thrown in gratuitously, for its own sake, with no actual regard for its contextual meaning. Meyer's literary allusions in TWOK suited the story; the constant Shakespeare in TUC was just thrown in to show off.

 

[Kryton]

Honestly, I couldn't understand a word of the quote they used over and over in the commercials. Perhaps his Klingon teeth or something.

Of course I now recognize it as "Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!" (Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", IIRC.)

But it just never aurally registered well back in the day.

 

[A beaker full of death]

^ I love Shatner's reading of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yerCiByca4

 

[Mr. Fergy]

Christopher Plummer's is just great, period. he was brilliant as Chang.

 

[Luke Lightsaber]

Yeah, that Shakespere really wrote some crap dialog.

 

[jbny67]

Yeah, that Shakespere really wrote some crap dialog.

 

[Mr. Fergy]

Yeah, that Shakespere really wrote some crap dialog.

Riiiiiight!!!

 

[trevanian]

Yeah, that Shakespere really wrote some crap dialog.

As Harrison Ford once said, "you can write this crap Bill, but you sure as shit can't say it out loud."