Casting Against Type: Odd Roles for Favorite Actors

[BurtWorm]

Bill Murray in Mad Dog and Glory, playing against his usual smart-assed slacker, plays a tightly wound gangster who is actually frightening.

Any others come to mind?

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. Ed O'Neil as a serious guy

forgot what movie

[BurtWorm]

2. Was it the one about Popeye Doyle?

That didn't quite work for me. ;)

[Richardo]

7. "Dutch"?

:D

[Nailzberg]

10. He's played quite a few serious roles.

Some have worked out for him. I liked him in Prefontaine.

[mouse7]

3. Samuel L. Jackson in Star Wars

I love Samual L. Jackson, but he's just all wrong without uninterrupted streams of profanity coming from his characters. There were probably 5 scenes in Star Wars II that were ruined because you're imagining what a Samuel J. Jackson character would REALLY say.

Christopher Lee should have been told, "Go fuck yourself.", more than a couple of times.

[BurtWorm]

4. Mary Tyler Moore as a Jewish mother in Flirting with Disaster

was actually one of her best roles! That's a great movie if you haven't seen it, by David O. Russell who made Spank the Monkey and Three Kings.

[BurtWorm]

5. Dick van Dyke in the Gin Game

Foul mouthed murderer. Definitely his best role since the Dick van Dyke show.

[noonwitch]

6. That is one of the funniest movies-everybody was well-cast

George Segal, Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin were all great, too.

MTM in "Ordinary People" was the real shocker. From "Mare" to cold hearted bitch.

[LynneSin]

8. Tim Robbins playing a neo-conservative folk singer in Bob Roberts

I mean there isn't anything neo-conservative about Tim Robbins. The songs in that movie are hilarious and Robbins refuses to release a soundtrack for the movie for fear neo-cons will use his songs out of context.

[Arbustosux]

9. I loved that movie!

and my love is deepened by the fact I know Robbin's true political leanings.

It was also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever watched.

I really would love to have the soundtrack...it was awesome.

[LynneSin]

11. He won't sell it

He was worried that real right-wing nut jobs would use his soundtrack as a rallying cry for neo-conservatives everywhere


A soundtrack album was due for release on Warner Bros. Records, but it was not released because Robbins didn't want the songs played outside of the movie's context.

[ima_sinnic]

12. Robin Williams as the film-developing psycho in One Hour Photo

eewwww--that was a creepy character!