Give me one good reason that James Spader couldn't have played Padme in Casablanca?

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I've argued this since forever, and never heard a compelling argument against it.

x(

[MrScorpio]

1. Because he wasn't born when they filmed the movie

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4. I said a *good* reason

:eyes:

[MrCoffee]

2. There isn't one. If anyone could pull it off, Spader could.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Darn right!

He should be in everything. And retroactively put into everything he isn't in yet.

[leeroysphitz]

9. Exactly right. He should be digitally inserted to replace Burt Lancasters entire body of work. n/t

[hedgehog]

3. Michael Shanks would have done it just as well for less money.

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6. Shanks is Canadian. He couldn't have played Padme.

:eyes:

[rcrush]

19. Michael Shanks would have done it BETTER for less money.

[Zomby Woof]

7. Because he likes the foley work in Ron Howard films

You're slipping!

[PVnRT]

8. Because he was in Bikini Girls From Space, released the same year

Duh.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Fool. You're thinking of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Beach Blanket Bingo

[MrCoffee]

11. It was an odd casting decision to put him in the role of the Beach Blanket

His performance, however, was sublime.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. He captured the whole existential dilemma of swimming in a world so rife with suffering,

and in which only the most blond, tanned and muscled guy can get the most beautiful girl. And what does it mean, anyway, "the most beautiful girl"? Aren't we all just going to die in a war of peasantry against the rich anyway? Sands in time, stuck in a blanket under teenagers. Suffering and violence summed up in the immobility of the mute object.

Sublime indeed.

[MrCoffee]

14. Yeah...

I was thinking more of the ability to remain still during the filming of the "I Think You Think" duet between Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, rather than leaping up and eviscerating the entire cast and crew in a frenzied rampage.

But that whole suffering and violence thing was good too.

[PVnRT]

15. LOL Did you fall off the truck yesterday?

Dostoyevsky was in Beach Blanket Bingo 2: The Night Of The Nerds. Rico Suave was in Beach Blanket Bingo, and it's a moot point anyway, since that came out in 1871, as anyone who knows anything about film would know.

Besides, James Spader was Uwe Boll's third choice for the role (Boll began directing the film, but had to bow out when he got a tragic case of brain parasites). Keanu Reeves was originally considered, followed by Joe Don Baker.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Godless n00b, passing silly Internet rumors around. Boll was in a Japanese internment camp in Iowa

from 1925 to 1847 during World War II and preceding the Three Stooges gut-wrenching celluloid interpretation of Hemingway's A Moveable Feast done with discarded paste and eyelashes of the lonely.

Your 'theory' has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked by scopes since at least 1962, which you'd know, if you knew anything about computers or science.

p.s. Rico Suave was in Beach *dropcloth* Bingo, the cheap Ayn Randian interpretation of the Book of Exodus. That "Rico Suave in Beach Blanket Bingo 2" meme's so old it's laughable, if it wasn't such a cruel indictment of your failure to engage your brain in any gear other than "reverse".

[Beetwasher]

13. The Queen Of Naboo Was In Casablanca?

Was Jar Jar there too?

[retread]

16. His time machine is low on fuel?

[Dr. Strange]

18. James Spader?

Please tell me you meant David Spade.

[Rabrrrrrr]

20. No, David Spade should have played Dr. Zaius in Casablanca

[Dr. Strange]

21. You maniac! You played it again, Sam!

Damn you! Damn you all to Paris!