Which film actors' roles remind you most of yourself?

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Ben Stiller, Greenberg
Levar Burton, pick a Trek movie
Paul Giamati, Sideways
Jacques Tati, Hulot’s Holiday
Paul Bettany, Dogville

 

[Mojochi]

Bruce Campbell, Army of Darkness
Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan
Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Roy Scheider, Jaws
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park
Keith David, Platoon
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Kurt Russell, John Carpenter's The Thing
Dan Ackroyd, The Blues Brothers

That's what kind of asshole I am

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Brian O'Halloran, Clerks
Jason Lee, Mallrats
Winona Ryder, Little Women
Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

 

[Mojochi]

I admire the hell out of RYAN's Sizemore just for his moment with Edward Burns. I love that kind of loyalty.

Scheider certainly is an exception to your ''rule.''

I love THE THING. But Russell was.....nasty. Yet he seemed somewhat religious at one point.

Thanks for responding.

Well, Scheider certainly has some of my snark lol

It's not just Sizemore in his peak moment with Ed Burns, but throughout the whole thing for me. The quiet little Vecchio church scene, where they awkwardly get giggling, the watching Mellish cry scene, while he packs dirt into his chew can, even the tobacco in itself has meaning. He only stuffs some in when they're about to get in the thick of battle, & I had to think about it, but the reason for that might be twofold. Nicotine is a stimulant that would make you sharper, & chewing it might reduce what must be the awful taste of dirt, fuel & munitions in the air, during a firefight.

Heck, even the man's post-mortem gaze has function, meaning & purpose. He imbues every scene he's in with more depth. It's the perfect foil to Hanks' captain Miller. He is legit the sleeper best performance of a movie filled with them

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just who the hell ARE you? A shoplifting vetrinarian?!? Those two bolds are the wildest potential combo since Sydow shared a film with SNL's copy-guy!

Why would you suggest Eddie Murphy being a shoplifter, because he's black?! Fuckin' racist.

Seriously, though, this is about the roles, not the actors, right? There's actually something Winona Ryder's character from Little Women and Eddie Murphy's character from Dolemite Is My Name have in common, and that element is part of what I relate to in both characters.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Sterling Hayden as Captain Martin Treleaven in Zero Hour!.

I mean, I'm not a badass military veteran or anything like that, but I usually show about as much emotion as he did.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Who stole his lines in AIRPLANE? Robert Hays, I guess?

Robert Stack.

I was incredibly amused that AIRPLANE! literally lifted some of its funniest lines from ZERO.

The creators of Airplane! actually bought the rights to Zero Hour! so that's why they were able to use the dialogue word for word.

Watching ZH is quite the surreal experience....

 

[Kai "the spy"]

That's as it's meant to be, yes. Murphy's just the vetrinarian, just not in your movie. Ryder shoplifted in reality. I picked a different Murphy movie because, not having seen DOLEMITE, I found your mix with Ryder to be a bit like Embeth Davidtz appearing in SCHINDLER'S LIST and ARMY OF DARKNESS within the same year. In short, a mind-blower. I didn't know what else to speculate. Please don't tell my biracial nieces I'm racist.

I know, that's why I made it a joke. By the way, it's been about two decades since either of those, yet they don't seem to be able to live these events down.

Ryder's character in Little Women, Jo March, is a writer waiting for her big break, Murphy's Dolemite is a guy feeling creative greatness in himself and, since nobody gives him a chance, decides to go at it himself.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

The Bridges of Madison County - Clint Eastwood
bIG - tOM hANKS
Three Days of Condor - Faye Dunaway
Castaway on the Moon - Jung Ryeo-won & Jung Jae-young

 

[Push The Button]

Ron Livingston in Office Space.

I have TPTP and TCAF forms that I have to fill out for my job. I also have four different managers that I report to. I am not making this up.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

And also sometimes i'm Ron Burgundy playing the Jazz-Flute...

 

[Jayson1]

Not in terms of looks or size but Donnie from "The Big Lebowski."

Andy from "40 Year Old Virgin." also not in terms of looks. Good God how much of me that is in him is amazing.

Angus from "Angus."


Jason

 

[Timewalker]

Jodie Foster in Contact. I don't have Elly Arroway's mathematical abilities, but I identify with her in every other way (that scene with young Elly and her dad and the telescope could have been my dad and me, though I was a bit older when I was given my first telescope).

 

[Nyotarules]

None

 

[auntiehill]

None

Ditto. I don't think there's a single movie character that's anything like me. Then again, if there was one, it would make for one boring-ass film.

 

[auntiehill]

Both of those sentences strike me as impossible. Even though I know you as well as August snowfalls.

I appreciate the vote of support but I am truly boring as hell. A fat old woman typing on her computer or sitting on her couch for hours while watching TV hardly makes for riveting cinema.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I appreciate the vote of support but I am truly boring as hell. A fat old woman typing on her computer or sitting on her couch for hours while watching TV hardly makes for riveting cinema.

Oh, I envision Kathy Bates making that movie right now on her phone while sitting at home during lockdown, and she'd get Oscar noms for writing, directing, and Best Actress in a Leading Role.

 

[Jayson1]

I appreciate the vote of support but I am truly boring as hell. A fat old woman typing on her computer or sitting on her couch for hours while watching TV hardly makes for riveting cinema.

Nobody is boring. Everyone has a interesting life story in them. It's just about finding what genre your life story belongs into. I think I fall into the eccentric loner with a tragic backstory who searches for the meaning of life only to find out it was all for nothing. Life has no purpose. Sad ending.


Jason