Post by Nalkarj on Sept 5, 2017 1:08:56 GMT
I originally posted this several months back in the "Classics" board, but it may be more apt here, so--if you're interested, here goes! 
Just had an idea for something of a game in which some of the folks here may be interested.
Basically, the concept is "recasting the classics," as the subject line says. You pick any movie in which you think some other actor or actress could have done the role better and then put down the actor you'd like in the part and the actor who was actually in the part (or the other way around). It has be someone who could have actually taken the part--i.e., no "Brad Pitt in Gone with the Wind" kind of scenario, breaking the temporal barrier. Besides that, I'm fairly lax with the rules.
Someone else told me this hypothetical recasting choice, so it's nothing clever on my part (indeed, it's what gave me the idea for this game):
The great Edward Everett Horton
instead of Ernest Truex
as Roy V. Bensinger in Howard Hawks's otherwise perfect (IMO) His Girl Friday. (Horton had played the role in the earlier adaptation, Lewis Milestone's The Front Page.)
(By the way, I think of Bensinger every time I see Gil Chesterton in reruns of Frasier-- )
OK, who wants to keep this going?
Just had an idea for something of a game in which some of the folks here may be interested.
Basically, the concept is "recasting the classics," as the subject line says. You pick any movie in which you think some other actor or actress could have done the role better and then put down the actor you'd like in the part and the actor who was actually in the part (or the other way around). It has be someone who could have actually taken the part--i.e., no "Brad Pitt in Gone with the Wind" kind of scenario, breaking the temporal barrier. Besides that, I'm fairly lax with the rules.
Someone else told me this hypothetical recasting choice, so it's nothing clever on my part (indeed, it's what gave me the idea for this game):
The great Edward Everett Horton
instead of Ernest Truex
as Roy V. Bensinger in Howard Hawks's otherwise perfect (IMO) His Girl Friday. (Horton had played the role in the earlier adaptation, Lewis Milestone's The Front Page.)
(By the way, I think of Bensinger every time I see Gil Chesterton in reruns of Frasier--
)OK, who wants to keep this going?
