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Post by Head Mutant on Feb 1, 2009 15:41:12 GMT -5
Today's discussion question is something I've noticed quite a bit -- when I go back to watch older movies, particularly ones I haven't seen for a while, sometimes I notice actors and actresses who've gotten a LOT more famous since that role. A lot of "HEY! It's THAT dude or dudette!"
For example, last year I rewatched Tombstone, and realized that the cowardly mayor of the town is also the same guy who plays John Locke in Lost. More hair, back in the Tombstone era, but still, same guy.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon?
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Post by DARTHMADLER on Feb 1, 2009 22:16:50 GMT -5
Seeing Harvey Keitel in Taxi Driver, not to mention Robert De Niro and discovering they weren't born old.
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Feb 1, 2009 23:19:26 GMT -5
Christopher Lloyd in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That guy must have been born looking 80 years old.
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Post by PoolMan on Feb 2, 2009 10:18:18 GMT -5
I saw Fistful of Dollars for the first time the other day, and I couldn't believe how powerful Clint Eastwood looked 35 years ago. I'm used to seeing him as a man who, while tough, looks brittle and dry enough to burn as kindling.
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Post by BlackCatWhiteCat on Feb 2, 2009 10:51:14 GMT -5
I saw Fistful of Dollars for the first time the other day, and I couldn't believe how powerful Clint Eastwood looked 35 years ago. I'm used to seeing him as a man who, while tough, looks brittle and dry enough to burn as kindling. Ditto. I saw Two Mules for Sister Sara the other day. I don't ever watch westerns, so this was the first time I'd seen him young. Wow. |
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Post by Al on Feb 2, 2009 13:41:16 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Feb 2, 2009 13:50:29 GMT -5
George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Good job, but it's weird to see him.
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Post by Head Mutant on Feb 2, 2009 16:26:03 GMT -5
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Post by dex on Feb 2, 2009 17:07:12 GMT -5
Itty bitty Stiles quoting Gibson: Overload of Awesome! |
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Post by StarOpal on Feb 3, 2009 10:49:48 GMT -5
This happens all the time. I think Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie) is probably my personal favorite for this since there are so many people who went on to do other things in it. Hackers would be my close second. Al I see your Old Navy commercial and raise you Aerosmith's Cryin' video for Josh Holloway (he's the purse snatcher). And watching Solar Babies post Heroes - it's so weird to see Nathan Petrelli about age twelve (roughly) with crazy eighties hair. And when I was a kid I saw a movie called The Silver Brumby. Later I found a dusty copy of it for rent and decided to take a stroll down memory lane. You know who's in it? Russell Crowe. Seriously? Also every Viggo Mortenson movie pre-A Perfect Murder. Viggo was Lucifer (a particularly scaring the crap out of me, you'd think I'd remember him better, Lucifer)?! Viggo was the skeavy guy in Albino Aligator?! Viggo was the guy who shot Al Pacino in Carlito's Way? Crimson Tide?! You kidding me?! As for "they weren't always old?" Donald Sutherland in The Dirty Dozen is so young it's weird. And if when you think Robert Mitchum you think the crazy old guy off Scrooged or the guy who narrated Tombstone, you have to see some of his earlier movies. And Leslie Nielsen pre-Airplane! did dramas, the driest most dramatic dramas, and a handful of Westerns, kinda ruins the effect when all you can hear in your mind is "It's a big white building with sick people, but that's not important right now." Loyd Bridges was once young, and good at acting in things other than Comedy, it's shocking. |
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Post by jman912 on Feb 3, 2009 10:55:52 GMT -5
another great one from Crimson Tide is James Gandolfini.
my favorite older movie of his being True Romance: "Yup, I can definitely see that guy getting stabbed in the foot with a corkscrew becoming one of the biggest TV stars ever"
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Post by pfrsue on Feb 3, 2009 11:13:51 GMT -5
Television related and not nearly as high-caliber, but can I just say that David McCallum (the chatty Dr. "Duckie" Mallard from NCIS) used to be my secret crush from his Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Great Escape days?
Uhm . . . which I watched in the 80's. Because even I wasn't alive yet for most of the 60's.
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Post by Al on Feb 3, 2009 12:18:59 GMT -5
Those who want to bleed from their eyeballs can check out teenaged Denise Richards and Paul Walker on Youtube in Tammy and the T-Rex. |
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Post by drew on Feb 3, 2009 18:52:52 GMT -5
The Twilight Zone is full of either "before they were famous" and "before they were Jurassic" actors: Burgess Meredith, William Shatner, Martin Landau, Jack Warden and Ted Knight, to name a few.
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Feb 3, 2009 19:36:48 GMT -5
Who can forget old Patrick Bat(e)man dancing and singing his ass off in Newsies and not to mention his early role in Empire of the Sun?
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