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Perfectly Cast

I have to argue that Harrison Ford was indeed a case of perfect casting. Indiana Jones would just not be as iconic as it was if Tom Selleck had been able to take the part.

How about Tom Cruise as Lestat? He did a phenomenal job and even managed to garner the praise of the fans that said he was wrong for the part.
 
Well, I think The Godfather is a perfectly cast film. Same with part II.

In genre, I'd argue for Reeve as Superman.
 
Charles Grodin as The Duke in Midnight Run. Great chemistry with De Niro. The studio wanted Robin Williams. I think his won big name would have sunk the film. Grodin was perfect.
 
Kirkman1987 said:
Well, I think The Godfather is a perfectly cast film. Same with part II.
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Sofia Coppola: "What about The Godfather Part III?"

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George Hamilton: "Yes, Kirkman1987, what about Godfather III?"

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They've all been stated, but...

Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman (Voice)
Mark Hamill as the Joker (Voice)
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon
Tom Welling as Clark Kent/Superman

I love Heath as the Joker -- one of the greatest screen performances of all film history; there isn't a single moment you see him as Heath, the whole time he has truly become someone else -- but I wouldn't say he was born for the role, as TDK re-invented the character in such a masterful way that had never been written before.
 
Val Kilmer- Jim Morrison, The Doors

Scott Bakula- Dr. Sam Beckett, Quantum Leap

Dean Stockwell- Admiral Al Calaviche(don't know proper spelling) Quantum Leap

Wuakeen Phoenix- Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line(agian, don't know proper spelling)

Val Kilmer- Doc Holiday, Tombstone. May have people have played the role, but Kilmer is the best. I don't imagine anyone else when I think of Doc Holiday.

Billy Bob Thornton- Any role. I have a feeling that people just write movies with him in mind.

Shartlo Coplely- Murdock, The A Team

I could go on and on, but I'll leave you with Johnny Depp- Captian Jack Sparrow, POTC. c'mon who else could play that role?
 
HunterB5446 said:
Wuakeen Phoenix- Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line(agian, don't know proper spelling)
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Jaoquin

I could go on and on, but I'll leave you with Johnny Depp- Captian Jack Sparrow, POTC. c'mon who else could play that role?
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I would go even further to say that POTC would have flopped without Depp, and certainly no 2nd, 3rd, and now 4th movie without him.
 
Frontier said:
They've all been stated, but...

Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman (Voice)
Mark Hamill as the Joker (Voice)
Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman
Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon
Tom Welling as Clark Kent/Superman

I love Heath as the Joker -- one of the greatest screen performances of all film history; there isn't a single moment you see him as Heath, the whole time he has truly become someone else -- but I wouldn't say he was born for the role, as TDK re-invented the character in such a masterful way that had never been written before.
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I'd have to disagree with your last statement. The only significantly different thing about TDK's Joker was that he wore makeup rather than having had his skin permanently colored by falling into a vat of acid (which is silly, as "classic comics" as it may be). TDK's Joker was remarkably similar to some of the most iconic Joker stories from the comics, from The Laughing Fish (for instance the hit on Commisioner Loeb and the judge had strong echoes of this story) to Arkham Asylum (Joker-in-the-nurse's-outfit had the gory lunacy of Arkham Asylum's Joker as he greets Batman and ushers him into the asylum) to The Killing Joke ("If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it be multiple choice!"), even Death in the Family (TDK's Joker beats Batman with a crowbar the way DitF's Joker beat Jason Todd to death).
 
Anwar said:
I always felt Timothy Dalton was closer to the book version of Bond than most others, until Daniel Craig.
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Definitely for his time. However, I though Lazenby was perfect in the 60s.

Connery was outstanding in the first few, back when they were faithful spy movies. When they went blockbuster, he went over the top, something that neither Lazenby nor Dalton were guilty of.
 
Lapis Exilis said:
The only significantly different thing about TDK's Joker was that he wore makeup rather than having had his skin permanently colored by falling into a vat of acid (which is silly, as "classic comics" as it may be).
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I really disagree with that. The fact that the Heath Ledger Joker wore smeared clown makeup with a Glasgow smile instead of having his skin permanently bleached white made him a radically different character. Personally, I find the classic Joker WAY scarier than someone who looks like a frat boy dressed up as the Crow for Halloween. It also led to an idiotic plot hole -- namely, when the Joker was captured by the police -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE BOTHER WIPING THE MAKEUP OFF?!? :wtf::scream:
 
It also led to an idiotic plot hole -- namely, when the Joker was captured by the police -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE BOTHER WIPING THE MAKEUP OFF?!?
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Mayor: "The clown will keep till morning."
They captured him late, and they just kind of there him in a cell, check for prints, and left him for the morning
 
Flying Spaghetti Monster said:
It also led to an idiotic plot hole -- namely, when the Joker was captured by the police -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE BOTHER WIPING THE MAKEUP OFF?!?
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Mayor: "The clown will keep till morning."
They captured him late, and they just kind of there him in a cell, check for prints, and left him for the morning
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Doing a quick wipe of his face would take even less time than checking his prints.
 
Trippy said:
HunterB5446 said:
Wuakeen Phoenix- Johnny Cash, I Walk the Line(agian, don't know proper spelling)
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Jaoquin

I could go on and on, but I'll leave you with Johnny Depp- Captian Jack Sparrow, POTC. c'mon who else could play that role?
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I would go even further to say that POTC would have flopped without Depp, and certainly no 2nd, 3rd, and now 4th movie without him.[/QUOT

Jaoqin, couldn't remember to save my life. Thanks, definately agree that POTC would not exist without Johnny Depp.
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Loved Ledger but thought Jack did a "truer" Joker. He could have played him in The Killing Joke.

Can't believe NO ONE has mentioned Robin Williams as TS Garp, John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon and Glenn Close as Garp's mother, Jenny in The World According to Garp. I saw the movie, then read the book. I've never read anything written that was made into visual media where the cast was so true I couldn't picture anything else. Except for this.
 
JonnyQuest037 said:
Lapis Exilis said:
The only significantly different thing about TDK's Joker was that he wore makeup rather than having had his skin permanently colored by falling into a vat of acid (which is silly, as "classic comics" as it may be).
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I really disagree with that. The fact that the Heath Ledger Joker wore smeared clown makeup with a Glasgow smile instead of having his skin permanently bleached white made him a radically different character. Personally, I find the classic Joker WAY scarier than someone who looks like a frat boy dressed up as the Crow for Halloween. It also led to an idiotic plot hole -- namely, when the Joker was captured by the police -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE BOTHER WIPING THE MAKEUP OFF?!? :wtf::scream:
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Eh, to each his own - I always found Joker's origin story to be very silly (why would having your skin bleached make you go insane?) and pretty much immaterial to the character though Moore did a good job coming up with a backstory that made it make sense in The Killing Joke. I liked TDK's version because there's no attempt to explain why Joker's crazy - he just is. He moves through the story not like a human character but like Insanity itself.

As for why no one bothered to wipe off his face - why would they? All the cops care about is an identity and the make up made next to difference in identifying him. If there was an identity on record I'm pretty sure you'd be able to recognize him, face paint or not. It's not exactly an effective disguise.

Mistral said:
Loved Ledger but thought Jack did a "truer" Joker. He could have played him in The Killing Joke.
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I truly can't agree with this. I saw only Jack, not the character, every minute of every frame he was in.

Can't believe NO ONE has mentioned Robin Williams as TS Garp, John Lithgow as Roberta Muldoon and Glenn Close as Garp's mother, Jenny in The World According to Garp. I saw the movie, then read the book. I've never read anything written that was made into visual media where the cast was so true I couldn't picture anything else. Except for this.
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You know, this is a very interesting case. I usually hold up Garp as an example in which the book and the movie are entirely different animals, but both are very good. I agree that the casting was perfect for the version of the story that they told in the movie, but I definitely don't see those actors when I read the book because the tone of the book is so very different from the tone of the movie.
 
Naomie Harris and Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later. And my personal favourite, JGL as the point man in Inception. I heard that James Franco was considered for the part and while I enjoy Franco's acting... it still would have been "oh, there's James Franco in a suit and tie".
 
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