BS: Worst MISCAST ever.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:54 PM

Speaking of Popeye, whoever played J. Wellington Wimpy in that movie didn't grasp the character at all. Wimpy was a cultivated gentleman (he would have you know) who was just temporarily strapped for cash. And he talked exactly like W. C. Fields. The actor who played Wimpy missed all that.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:58 PM

I saw Blazing Saddles for the first time just this year and thought it was awesome. Cleavon Little's Sheriff was the only person in the whole story who had anything resembling a lick of sense.

My favorite miscast is Reba McEntire as Annie Oakley in Buffalo Girls. The Annie Oakley I have read about was not red-headed, nor did she have an Oklahoma accent, since she was from Ohio. I thought the whole point of "acting" was to look and sound like the person you're portraying. Boy have I ever been deludinated.

I hear she's now in Annie Get Your Gun, which really affrights me.

A lot of people didn't like Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee in Gettysburg, and I have to admit, I was skeptical, but I think he did all right.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 03:59 PM

Correct, Don. Wimpy was the one character in that movie who was not played true to type.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 10:15 PM

"Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler was Groucho Marx! And we wonder why writers don't get no respect in Hollywood!

180 degree about face: how about miscasting that worked out fine? I'm thinking of the "voice-acting" job that Eddy Murphy did in "Schrek". Whoever would have expected that he could portray a talkng jackass so well?

(Truth is: I loved it, but that line was too much to resist.)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: GUEST,--seed
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 03:51 AM

Peter, about the old men cast as romantic leads in Audrey Hepburn movies...did you see her at 60 or so as an ingenue in _The Other Side of Midnight_?

--seed

How about Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo?

Or Richard Chamberlain as Anjin-san in _Shogun_?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: bob jr
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 01:03 PM

a second vote for the insufferable tony curtis in taras bulba where i am sure he is a cossack and not tartar....its bad enough that his thick brooklyn accent makes hash of the dialogue but he is also suppose to be the son of YUL BRYNER ....now spot the family resemblance between those two (yul does at least look a little bit russian) and while i am on the subject how about all those movies where sean connerey plays a soviet? is he from a part of minsk known as "little glasgow"?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: LR Mole
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 03:57 PM

Oh, yeah... Toby McGuire is going to be Spiderman. Will it be called "The Spider-House Rules"? But, to contemplate the other side of the street, was anything ever more perfectly cast than "Barney Miller"?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 04:10 PM

Hawk...."The Ragman's Son" isn't just good, it's a really excellent book where so many autobiographies are not.

Kim.....You've just seen "Blazing Saddles" for the first time??? Geez, I hope you saw the uncut version, it's much funnier!

AND....Regarding Annie Oakley.....Yes, she was from Darke County, Ohio and was a beautiful woman. She was an avid reader and very "refined" outside of her performances. She was also, in her private life. way outfront on the equality issues. Neat lady......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 04:59 PM

How about Diane Keaton as "Kay", Michael Corleone's wife in the Godfather? (I thought she was dead wrong and horrible in that role.)

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:05 PM

Wally Cox as Hercules, and Paul Prud'homme in the Dom DeLuise Story. Terrible!

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 10:44 PM

What about Larry David playing himself in his own show?

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:29 PM

Two that I've heard are possibly forthcoming, but thankfully have not been done yet, are Julia Roberts as the female lead in a remake of "Casablanca," and Nicholas Cage as "Superman." However, we should all realize that this is a very subjective topic. Found many I can't agree with. Some of today's "best actors (male and female)," are really just personality products who got lucky by being in the right place at the right time. Some of the best have never had "boxoffice" appeal. Sometimes good books, good music and good films make the top ten/best seller/blockbuster status, and too frequently mediocrity receives as much if not more attention. Being fans/performers/afficionados of the sort of music discussed here at Mudcat, many of us no doubt realize that the best stuff out there never gets much in the way of public acclaim.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 14 Aug 01 - 11:30 PM

Well, a loong time ago Chuck Connors did a technicolor, 6'5" blue-eyed Geronimo.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: RangerSteve
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:34 AM

A remake of Casablanca? I'll start boycotting the theaters now.

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:55 PM

Chuck Connors as Geronimo?????? Truly unbelievable. Even Bob Dylan as Geronimo would hardly be less appropriate. Thankfully, that has not been attempted.

Come to think of it, Bob's been very badly miscast as himself on the odd TV appearance here and there. I suspect he just didn't really want to be there.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 12:56 PM

A remake of Casablanca??? OY!

Casablanca was a very low-budget movie (cardboard airplane in the background, that sort of thing). Hollywood could spend two-hundred million on a remake and it still wouldn't come close to the original.

I think one of the major problems Hollywood has had within recent years is too much money to work with. Instead of creativity and ingenuity, they just throw money at the screen. Cripe! They can't even come up with new stuff, they have to remake the classics.

('Scuse me, I get worked up sometimes)

Best movie I've seen in recent years was The Sixth Sense. Highly original premise, excellent acting, and a brilliant build-up to the "McGuffin." I didn't get it until they wanted me to get it. (Just my opinion).

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 01:00 PM

I agree entirely, Don.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 01 - 02:10 PM

Heehee! I had the Chuck Connors Geronimo! I think we unloaded it at our last yard sale.

The Blazing Saddles I saw was whatever they had on the shelf at Hollywood Video.

The sheriff is near!

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Bugsy
Date: 16 Aug 01 - 01:55 AM

Gotta be John Wayne as the Centurian in "The Greatest Story Ever Told." where, in the final moments, he ruined the whole film with his one line "Truly this man was the son of God."

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 02:41 AM

John Wayne in just about anything

Subject: RE: BS: Worst MISCAST ever.
From: Trevor
Date: 17 Aug 01 - 07:10 AM

How about Dick van Dyke as a lovable cockney chimneysweep (or was it bad acting rather than bad casting?)

'Woi Moiry!'