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Post by Prime etc. on May 5, 2020 8:02:43 GMT
Had trouble coming up with the right title for this-the idea I am thinking of is movies where someone is cast probably because it was intended as a homage or callback to another role they did. Obvious examples like Cape Fear 1991 using three cast members from the original.
Or Mia Farrow being cast as the nanny in the Omen remake.
Not so obvious might be Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando being in Superman the Movie as rivals on the Krypton council where the latter has mutinous intentions (since they had done a Mutiny on the Bounty film).
Another one I didn't catch on to was the casting of Felton Perry and Robert DoQui in Robocop probably being inspired by them having portrayed cops in Magnum Force and the Walking Tall films. That might be reaching a little but that's my assumption.
Geoffrey Rush in the remake of The House on Haunted Hill had to be intentional because of a Vincent Price resemblance!
Other examples that may be obvious or subtle or just coincidences?
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Post by cynthiagreen on May 5, 2020 10:01:18 GMT
Patty Duke played the Bancroft role in the remake of THE MIRACLE WORKER
Joanne Woodward as the shrink in SYBIL (she won oscar as the patient in multiple personality shocker THE THREE FACES OF EVE)
Jean Simmons, who played young Estella in 1946 GREAT EXPECTATIONS played MISS Havisham in the 1989 one
Faye Dunaway had a bit as a psychiatrist in the THOMAS CROWN remake
Vanessa Redgrave played Anne Boleyn in the 1966 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS and Alice More in the 1988 one.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 5, 2020 10:55:14 GMT
Oh I got a couple more: Andrew Robinson and Reni Santoni in COBRA (obviously cast due to Dirty Harry) Rosemary Harris and Cliff Robertson in SPIDER-MAN 2002 she was the mother of a cloned kid in THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL while he was the subject of an experiment in CHARLY
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The Puppet Masters 1994 - Maybe it is just a coincidental casting but given that the story is about an alien invasion,
Donald Sutherland was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Keith David was in the Thing, Yaphet Kotto was in ALIEN.
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Post by marianne48 on May 5, 2020 11:50:23 GMT
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Martin Balsam all appeared in the original Cape Fear and also showed up in the remake.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 5, 2020 12:36:36 GMT
Donald Sutherland was in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Keith David was in the Thing, Yaphet Kotto was in ALIEN.
In that 1978 remake, Kevin McCarthy does a cameo as the man who shouts, "They're here already, you're next" through Sutherland's car window, echoing his Miles Bennell character from 1956. There's also James Cagney as George M. Cohan, doing a soft shoe with Bob Hope's Eddie Foy in The Seven Little Foys. And Marlon Brando, channeling Vito Corleone, as Carmine Sabatini in The Freshman. Bela Lugosi as a ham actor masquerading as Count Mora in Mark Of the Vampire. Perhaps more in-joke than homage casting is the first minute or so of Spencer Tracy's appearance in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, in black suit and rumpled fedora with his left hand thrust conspicuously into his coat pocket, a reference to his character in Bad Day At Black Rock. Lee Patrick in George Segal's The Maltese Falcon satire, The Black Bird, as Effie, now belligerent and combative (and contemptuously referred to by Segal as Godzilla). Could it be said that both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were representative in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, not as homages to specific roles but to entire careers?
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2020 14:43:44 GMT
Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in the Superman TV series, appeared in the 1978 movie. Jack Larson, Jimmy Olsen in the TV show, appeared in Superman Returns.
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2020 14:48:42 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2020 15:16:41 GMT
Melvin Dummar appeared in Howard and Melvin.
Jim Garrison appeared in JFK.
James Dickey appeared in Deliverance.
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Post by mikef6 on May 5, 2020 15:28:35 GMT
In "Sleuth" (1972), Michael Caine played Milo to Sir Larry's Andrew. In the 2007 remake (terrible, with dialog rewritten by Harold Pinter), Caine took Andrew to Jude Law's Milo.   |
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Post by mikef6 on May 5, 2020 15:35:55 GMT
Lloyd Bochner starred in the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" (S.3, Ep.24, 1962).
In "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear" (1991) during a panic scene, Bochner runs through a room of screaming people yelling, "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!"
When I saw that in a theater back in '91, I think I was the only person in the audience who nearly died when he heard that.
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2020 15:38:33 GMT
I could only find this in Spanish. I guess it's Cinqo de Mayo.
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Post by marshamae on May 5, 2020 16:37:21 GMT
Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as the Duke brothers now street bums in Coming To America
Joana Barnes , the original mean girlfriend in Parent Trap ( 1961) playing the new mean girls mother in the Lindsay Lohan remake. Lindsay hums a snatch of Let’s Get Together, hails mills hit from tge original. Btw, Lohan was enchanting in this film, makes me very sad to see how wasted her adult life has been.
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Post by teleadm on May 5, 2020 17:47:46 GMT
James Garner who played the original Bret Maverick in the TV series, played another character in the 1994 movie Maverick:  |
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Post by mattgarth on May 5, 2020 17:49:50 GMT
Actually Garner played Maverick's pa -- the one he himself would often refer to on the TV series -- "As my Pappy once told me ..."
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Post by teleadm on May 5, 2020 18:04:38 GMT
Actually Garner played Maverick's pa -- the one he himself would often refer to on the TV series -- "As my Pappy once told me ..." Didn't want to give away that spoiler...
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Post by mattgarth on May 5, 2020 18:06:15 GMT
You mean I spoiled it ... like you did with yesterday's snacks?  |
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Post by President Ackbar™ on May 5, 2020 18:16:11 GMT
 The War of the Worlds (1953) WAR of the WORLDS (2005)
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Post by Prime etc. on May 5, 2020 19:12:16 GMT
Lloyd Bochner starred in the classic Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" (S.3, Ep.24, 1962). In "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear" (1991) during a panic scene, Bochner runs through a room of screaming people yelling, "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!" When I saw that in a theater back in '91, I think I was the only person in the audience who nearly died when he heard that. lol I missed that!
I was going to say Airplane! and Hot Shots Part Deux! have many examples of this--like Richard Crenna spoofing his Rambo 3 speech--but since they are comedies it is so obviously a homage. That's why I am most curious about the subtle ones or situations where it may well just be a coincidence.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 5, 2020 20:05:41 GMT
And of course Patrick McGoohan in ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 5, 2020 20:09:38 GMT
The Real Chris Gardner appeared at the end of Pursuit of Happyness  |
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