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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on October 31, 2007, 12:30:07 pm ---I read that, too. I think the answer is that this particular movie is being marketed incorrectly. I almost went to it on Sunday, though even then I really didn't know what it's about.
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I don't know what it's about, either. My children (ages 19 and 16) saw it and couldn't tell me what it was about! LOL
--- Quote ---Serious adult movies, IMO, are still in too short supply. I think the problem financially is that serious adults rarely see a movie more than once or twice (BBM aside ;D), whereas kids are more likely to see movies several times.
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True. But we do rush out and buy the DVDs!
--- Quote ---Oh yeah, the bad guy. I was wondering about that, too, and for some reason I'd forgotten all about the bad guy. I think Ryan Gosling, talented though he is, seems too sympathetic an actor to play a guy that evil. Even Mark Wahlberg might not be abhorrent enough. I was thinking the cop.
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I haven't read the book but apparently he plays "the father" of (I think) the girl who is murdered. There was some thought that Ryan Gosling wouldn't look old enough to play the father which is why he gained weight and grew a beard but Peter Jackson didn't like the beard and weight. Probably Wahlberg is more age appropriate, in general.
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notBastet:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 31, 2007, 12:38:07 pm ---I haven't read the book but apparently he plays "the father" of (I think) the girl who is murdered. There was some thought that Ryan Gosling wouldn't look old enough to play the father which is why he gained weight and grew a beard but Peter Jackson didn't like the beard and weight. Probably Wahlberg is more age appropriate, in general.
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Hmmnnn. I don't really remember the role of a cop, but I think I can (sort of) remember a role for the father. But I do think you're right about Wahlberg being more age appropriate... on the other hand - sometimes make up can do a lot for age-appropriateness (thinking of older Jack/Ennis Jake/Heath), but I guess for an entire movie of this genre you'd rather not have to make someone look older...
(maybe I'll like the movie since I don't seem to remember much about the book! I went to see The English Patient right after I finished reading the novel, as in same day. Was completely unimpressed with the movie at that juncture... though I did eventually come to appreciate the movie on its own accord.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 31, 2007, 12:38:07 pm ---I haven't read the book but apparently he plays "the father" of (I think) the girl who is murdered. There was some thought that Ryan Gosling wouldn't look old enough to play the father which is why he gained weight and grew a beard but Peter Jackson didn't like the beard and weight. Probably Wahlberg is more age appropriate, in general.
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Ryan Gosling, according to imdb, is 27, so it is a stretch to see him as father of a 15-year-old. It makes more sense to cast someone closer in age.
Then again, Heath Ledger at 24 convincingly played the father of a 19-year-old, even without the beard and weight!
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on October 31, 2007, 01:44:48 pm ---
Then again, Heath Ledger at 24 convincingly played the father of a 19-year-old, even without the beard and weight!
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Yes. Another one that comes to mind is Anne Bancroft in "The Graduate." She and Dustin Hoffman were less than 6 years apart in age but look how much older her character was supposed to be, compared to Benjamin Braddock.
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serious crayons:
Right! It probably didn't hurt that Dustin Hoffman was 30. At 36, Ann Bancroft's age was probably closer to her character's than his was (Benjamin Braddock would be about 22, right? And Mrs. Robinson, mother of a girl still in college, who told Ben she "had" to get married, could plausibly have been under 40).
BTW, in fact-checking this on imdb, I noticed that Dustin Hoffman appeared on an episode of "The Match Game" in 1968!!
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