Films where they got exactly the right actor

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  1. Jazzmonkie

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    Sabu as Mowgli in Jungle Book (1942) and as the young general in Black Narcissus (1947). It's a shame Hollywood chewed him up and spit him out.
     
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  2. Scowl

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    Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross. I can't think of any other actor who could portray a character so complicated that I liked him, I hated him, I rooted for him, and then I enjoyed what happened to him in the end. What other actor could do that fake smile and phony cheerful voice so convincingly?
     
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  3. Honey Bunches of Sadness

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    Agreed that his Lecter is a bit hammy in Silence of the Lambs. I thought Brian Cox was very effective playing the same character in Manhunter, albeit in a much smaller role. No reason Cox couldn't have done it in Silence, too.
     
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  4. Sordel

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    The Coens had, I think, the advantage that they would have seen what Buscemi could do in Reservoir Dogs before writing the Fargo role. He was, of course, very good in both.
     
  5. MrCJF

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    Every actor in Reservoir Dogs- known or unknown- delivered big time for an unknown writer/director.

    I agree Buscemi gave a "top of the CV" performance in RD that inspired the Coens to write to his strengths.
     
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  6. Sordel

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    It's an interesting thought experiment but of course Jonathan Demme & Michael Mann have a very different aesthetic and the two actors served their visions.
     
  7. GregM

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    I think you've both got your timeline a bit wrong. Reservoir Dogs (1992) was later than both Barton Fink (1991) where the Coens cast Buscemi as a bellboy named Chet and Miller's Crossing (1990), where the Coens cast Busciemi as Mink. The Coens were well aware of what Buscemi could do independent of Reservoir Dogs.
     
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  8. Warzawa

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    Before the first hunger games movie I had read the book before hand and when i was reading it I always had envisioned Haymitch looking like Woody Harrelson , he so nailed that role. As well as Lenny Kravitz nailing the role for Cinna
     
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  9. Steve Baker

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    The entire cast of "Rob Roy" except for Eric Stoltz (awful)

    Lee Marvin as Walker in "Point Blank"

    Sean Connery in "The Untouchables"

    Jeff Daniels as Joshua Chamberlain in "Gettysburg"

    Earth Kitt as Catwoman

    Peter O'Toole as "Lawrence of Arabia" (honorable mention Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Taii")

    Steve Buscemi as Mr. Pink in "Reservoir Dogs"

    Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Agustus McCrea and Woodrow Call in "Lonesome Dove"

    Jeff Bridges in "Wild Bill"
     
  10. MrCJF

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    I stand (sitting really) corrected.
     
  11. polchik

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    gerard butler - 300

    i really cant imagine another actor in this role ..... he really was perfect for this film
     
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  12. First movie and actor that came to mind when I read the title of the thread.
     
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  13. citizensmurf

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    Surely someone has said Being John Malkovich already. Can't get much more perfect casting than the title actor to play "himself".
     
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  14. Hoyt

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    Robert Blake— In Cold Blood.
     
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  15. polchik

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    jack nicholson in 'one who flew over the cuckoo's nest' .....

    the whole cast really!
     
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  16. applebonkerz

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    John Houseman as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in The Paper Chase
     
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  17. Honey Bunches of Sadness

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    Thread winner here. Disappointed I didn't think of this one myself...
     
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  18. MrCJF

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    It has to be said that Muhammed Ali was the wrong choice to play Muhammed Ali in The Greatest. They really needed an actor in that role.
     
  19. applebonkerz

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    I was surprised myself getting to the thread this late, that he hadn't been mentioned already. Houseman was the first person that came to my thoughts seeing the subject title.
     
  20. Claus LH

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    A Swiss and two Germans:

    Bruno Ganz as Hitler in "Downfall". After so many attempts at him, Ganz's version became the gold standard.

    Jurgen Prochnow as the captain in "Das Boot". Unforgettable, they can put that one on his tombstone.

    Gunther Lamprecht as Biberkopf in "Berlin Alexanderplatz". Carrying that monster series the way he did would be worthy of any award. Extraordinary work.
     
  21. PNeski@aol.com

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    Martin Sheen Badlands
    Orson Welles Kane
    Jack Nicholson Chinatown
    Peter O'Toole Lawrence of Arabia
    Peter Sellers x 3 Dr Strangelove
    Walter Matthau The Odd Couple
    ect............
     
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  22. Sterling Cooper

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    It's difficult to image any actor playing Indiana Jones' father other than Sean Connery.

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  23. jawaka1000

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    Wow, and Gottfried John as Reinhold Hoffman aswell.
    Oh, and Hanna Schygulla! What about Hanna Schygulla?
    In like every Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie?
     
  24. guyfromscene24

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    Nicholson in the Shining
    Hoffman in Rain Man
    Pacino in Scent of a Women
     
  25. Kaskade10729

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    Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in ------

    Oh, wait.

    No, that was the complete opposite of what this thread was focused on. Nothing to see here.
     
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