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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 20, 2018 13:21:46 GMT
Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West Tom Hanks - Road to Perdition |
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Post by Nora on Sept 20, 2018 14:00:56 GMT
Jim Carrey Truman Show
Tom Cruise Tropic Thunder
Adam Sandler - Punch Drunk Love
althoufh Jim and Adam examples are more against their stereotypical casting not type as much.
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Post by vegalyra on Sept 20, 2018 14:39:50 GMT
I would say Al Pacino in Jack and Jill but then I'd have to burn my computer and the internet.
I'll go with James Caan in Elf. DeNiro was still his tough guy persona in Meet the Parents so I don't know if it counts.
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Post by politicidal on Sept 20, 2018 14:46:10 GMT
I would say Al Pacino in Jack and Jill but then I'd have to burn my computer and the internet. I'll go with James Caan in Elf. DeNiro was still his tough guy persona in Meet the Parents so I don't know if it counts. Perhaps his bit in Stardust (2007). |
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 20, 2018 14:52:13 GMT
I would say Al Pacino in Jack and Jill but then I'd have to burn my computer and the internet. I'll go with James Caan in Elf. DeNiro was still his tough guy persona in Meet the Parents so I don't know if it counts. Perhaps his bit in Stardust (2007). Or Mad Dog and Glory or Awakenings |
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 20, 2018 14:59:09 GMT
DeNiro was still his tough guy persona in Meet the Parents so I don't know if it counts. I thought all that did was help to undermine the movie. I mean he's still this Brooklyn-accented tough guy but in this case he's the patriarch of this upper-crust WASP family. Anyway I'll go with... Dean Jones - Beethoven Donald Sutherland - Eye of the Needle John Goodman - Barton Fink James Garner - Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
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Post by koskiewicz on Sept 20, 2018 15:03:41 GMT
Edmund Gwenn, who played the lovable Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street" also played a murderous assassin in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent"
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Post by ravi02 on Sept 20, 2018 15:38:51 GMT
DeNiro was still his tough guy persona in Meet the Parents so I don't know if it counts. I thought all that did was help to undermine the movie. I mean he's still this Brooklyn-accented tough guy but in this case he's the patriarch of this upper-crust WASP family. How does that undermine the movie if he's meant to be this tough patriarch and the humor is in seeing Ben Stiller's bumbling guy try to win his respect? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 20, 2018 15:46:21 GMT
ok.. maybe not exactly "successful" but ….
Julie Andrews in S.O.B.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Although known for Julie Andrews topless appearance, it's not her first topless film. She was seen briefly topless in "Darling Lili", also directed by her husband Blake Edwards.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 20, 2018 16:08:21 GMT
Burt Reynolds is quiet and unassuming in Starting Over – haven't seen it in almost 40 years though. Stallone is the same in Cop Land, until the last ten minutes when he goes Rambo.   Jack Weston and Richard Crenna play petty criminals in Wait until Dark, though they are former cops as I recall.  |
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 20, 2018 16:23:21 GMT
Brad Pitt plays serial killer Early Grayce in Kalifornia, and quite well too.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 20, 2018 17:17:55 GMT
Robin Williams very successfully flip-flopped between comic/ manic persona and serious teacher types and occasionally creepy, villainous roles. Serious usually required growing a beard but not every time (One Hour Photo (
Comic Whoopie Goldberg in The Color Purple.
Usually comic Jackie Gleason in The Hustler !
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 20, 2018 17:23:24 GMT
I thought all that did was help to undermine the movie. I mean he's still this Brooklyn-accented tough guy but in this case he's the patriarch of this upper-crust WASP family. How does that undermine the movie if he's meant to be this tough patriarch and the humor is in seeing Ben Stiller's bumbling guy try to win his respect? Well I just thought he was badly miscast in the role. You know DeNiro's this obviously Italian-American New Yorker with a thick accent, and the other family members were these very stereotypical WASPs. I thought DeNiro felt as out of place among them as Stiller did. Someone like Steve Martin would have been better suited for that role. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2018 17:39:16 GMT
Marlon Wayans in Requiem for a Dream
Humphrey Bogart in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Post by teleadm on Sept 20, 2018 18:26:30 GMT
1942 The Spoilers and Pittsburgh Randolph Scott and John Wayne reversed their roles as good guy and bad guy in one each, The Spoilers Randolph Scott was the bad guy and in Pittsburgh John Wayne was the bad guy. Both movies ended in long fistfights, and it's unusal to see Wayne as a heel and loosing both a fistfight and the heroine.  The Spoliers 1942, good guy Wayne vs bad guy Scott  Pittsburgh 1942, Wayne as the bad guy, who loses both the heroine and a fistfight, won by Scott. |
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Post by Reggie_Stration on Sept 20, 2018 21:42:46 GMT
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast
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Post by eplay on Sept 20, 2018 21:55:23 GMT
"The Minus Man" was early in Owen Wilson's career, but it was a fantastic, creepy performance and unlike anything else that preceded or followed.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 20, 2018 22:09:22 GMT
Robin Williams - Insomina/One Hour Photo
Michael Keaton - Batman
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Post by fangirl1975 on Sept 20, 2018 22:12:11 GMT
Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 20, 2018 22:14:07 GMT
Ultimate British suave fellow Claude Rains playing a hard-nosed Brooklyn detective in They Made Me a Criminal.
Though you did say 'successfully', and though I found Claude entertaining as all get-out in the role, I'm not sure successfully is the word I'd use to describe his handling of it.
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