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Post by 博:Dr.BLΔD€:锯 on Oct 18, 2019 9:51:05 GMT
Which (or is it what) for you are the most craziest, incongruous, ill-advised and oddest casting you recall. I.e. John Wayne once portrayed. ........Genghis Khan . |
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Post by marth on Oct 19, 2019 1:13:04 GMT
Weird casting: Laurence Olivier in Othello   Bad casting: You know...  |
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 1:14:32 GMT
The answer to end all: Vince Vaughn in the Psycho remake.
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Post by marth on Oct 19, 2019 1:49:12 GMT
The answer to end all: Vince Vaughn in the Psycho remake. Totally second this.
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 1:55:25 GMT
The answer to end all: Vince Vaughn in the Psycho remake. Totally second this. Who wouldn’t?  |
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 2:00:39 GMT
I think they chose Vince Vaughn because they wanted to switch the psycho from the Perkins type to the John Gavin type.
By 1998, the nerd rules Hollywood (how many movies was Kevin Spacey triumphant in?).
I am amazed Vaughn had such a normal role in the Lost World Jurassic Park.
He saves the expedition by calling for help as well as preventing Roland from shooting the tyrannosaur by tampering with his gun (ridiculously left for him to do so).
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 2:21:03 GMT
I think they chose Vince Vaughn because they wanted to switch the psycho from the Perkins type to the John Gavin type.By 1998, the nerd rules Hollywood (how many movies was Kevin Spacey triumphant in?). I am amazed Vaughn had such a normal role in the Lost World Jurassic Park. He saves the expedition by calling for help as well as preventing Roland from shooting the tyrannosaur by tampering with his gun (ridiculously left for him to do so). But Norman Bates isn’t meant to be like that. Anthony Perkins sold it completely fine as the naive and scrawny young man. I think it contrasts well from John Gavin’s Sam Loomis. One of the biggest problems with Vince is that he’s too damn big. |
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 19, 2019 2:29:07 GMT
But Norman Bates isn’t meant to be like that. Anthony Perkins sold it completely fine as the naive and scrawny young man. I think it contrasts well from John Gavin’s Sam Loomis. One of the biggest problems with Vince is that he’s too damn big. But that's what I mean. In the original, it was the nerdy scrawny guy who was the killer-and Loomis comes in and stops him. It's traditional, except the killer is not what you expected, you assume its a scary domineering witch-like mother (which is also traditional).
Into the 80s and 90s the big guy is usually a fool or a jerk (i.e. Biff or the cop in FALLING DOWN who insults Duvall about his wife). They likely did not want to cast a skinny guy because it runs counter to "beta power" theme which was rising by the late 1990s (reaching a ridiculous extreme in Transformers the Movie where not only does the nerd get a model girlfriend but also defeats the giant robot by himself!).
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 2:35:44 GMT
But Norman Bates isn’t meant to be like that. Anthony Perkins sold it completely fine as the naive and scrawny young man. I think it contrasts well from John Gavin’s Sam Loomis. One of the biggest problems with Vince is that he’s too damn big. But that's what I mean. In the original, it was the nerdy scrawny guy who was the killer-and Loomis comes in and stops him. It's traditional, except the killer is not what you expected, you assume its a scary domineering witch-like mother (which is also traditional).
Into the 80s and 90s the big guy is usually a fool or a jerk (i.e. Biff or the cop in FALLING DOWN who insults Duvall about his wife). They likely did not want to cast a skinny guy because it runs counter to "beta power" theme which was rising by the late 1990s (reaching a ridiculous extreme in Transformers the Movie where not only does the nerd get a model girlfriend but also defeats the giant robot by himself!).
Fair enough. But maybe that makes him even more predictable now. It also doesn’t exactly help that the movie is literally shot-for-shot, so if you’ve seen the original before this, you know exactly what’s gonna happen. |
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 3:25:27 GMT
The answer to end all: Vince Vaughn in the Psycho remake. Not just the casting, but the whole re-make itself. The one thing I give credit to is that at least the cast tried their best. Wasn’t their fault they were given a copy-and-paste script to work with.
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Post by James on Oct 19, 2019 3:30:27 GMT
The one thing I give credit to is that at least the cast tried their best. Wasn’t their fault they were given a copy-and-paste script to work with. I thought Anne Heche does well. I thought the best part was William H. Macy. He was perfect as Arbogast.
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Post by mecano04 on Oct 19, 2019 12:01:02 GMT
Weird casting: Laurence Olivier in OthelloA challenger for the title:
Charlon Heston in Touch of Evil.
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