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  • Do white-bread, type-cast actors ever resent it?

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 20 16:16:51 2022
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator, something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 21 10:51:32 2022
    On 10/21/2022 10:32 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <g_x4L.71286$SqO3.27110@fx02.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Then there's "Double Indemnity"...

    ?

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to pwallace@moviepig.com on Fri Oct 21 14:55:44 2022
    In article <Vly4L.432535$wLZ8.221392@fx18.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/21/2022 10:32 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <g_x4L.71286$SqO3.27110@fx02.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Then there's "Double Indemnity"...

    ?


    Fred MacMurray: Bad guy.
    Edward G. Robinson: Good guy.
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to RichA on Fri Oct 21 10:26:20 2022
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator, something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to pwallace@moviepig.com on Fri Oct 21 14:32:49 2022
    In article <g_x4L.71286$SqO3.27110@fx02.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.



    Then there's "Double Indemnity"...
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From trotsky@21:1/5 to moviePig on Fri Oct 21 10:35:32 2022
    On 10/21/2022 9:26 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick.  I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Actors do what interests them. It's not complicated. (To "Rich it
    probably is.)

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 21 15:15:10 2022
    On 10/21/2022 10:55 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <Vly4L.432535$wLZ8.221392@fx18.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/21/2022 10:32 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <g_x4L.71286$SqO3.27110@fx02.iad>,
    moviePig <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Then there's "Double Indemnity"...

    ?


    Fred MacMurray: Bad guy.
    Edward G. Robinson: Good guy.

    Oh, right. Good one.

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to trotsky on Fri Oct 21 15:20:28 2022
    On 10/21/2022 11:35 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 10/21/2022 9:26 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick.  I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Actors do what interests them.  It's not complicated.  (To "Rich it probably is.)

    That, too, is true. And, indeed, if most high-end acting today is
    "method", one might choose to bypass certain roles/mindsets...

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to pwal...@moviepig.com on Fri Oct 21 20:32:26 2022
    On Friday, 21 October 2022 at 10:26:24 UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator, something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.

    Harrison Ford played a murderer, in among his salt of the Earth characters.

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  • From trotsky@21:1/5 to RichA on Sat Oct 22 04:20:20 2022
    On 10/21/2022 10:32 PM, RichA wrote:
    On Friday, 21 October 2022 at 10:26:24 UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator, something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick. I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.

    Harrison Ford played a murderer, in among his salt of the Earth characters.


    Harrison Ford was a carpenter before he was an actor so maybe he has a different mindset.

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  • From trotsky@21:1/5 to moviePig on Sat Oct 22 04:18:41 2022
    On 10/21/2022 2:20 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 10/21/2022 11:35 AM, trotsky wrote:
    On 10/21/2022 9:26 AM, moviePig wrote:
    On 10/20/2022 7:16 PM, RichA wrote:
    Why can't Hanks, who is a decent actor, play a child-predator,
    something like that?

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7405458/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

    Because that would be a vanity-project/parlor-trick.  I.e., the same
    reason Cary Grant never played Quasimodo.


    Actors do what interests them.  It's not complicated.  (To Eunuch "Rich" it
    probably is.)

    That, too, is true.  And, indeed, if most high-end acting today is
    "method", one might choose to bypass certain roles/mindsets...


    That's certainly the way I see it.

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