Matt Deckard
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Who would you choose for his leading lady?
Charlize Theron? Rachel Weisz?
Charlize Theron? Rachel Weisz?
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If you were to put George Clooney in a remake of North by Northwest
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Not a fan of "George".
If the movie were to be remade, perhaps someone other than George could be found. Hollywood does have a few really decent male actors. Sadly most of the real "greats" are no longer among the living. (just my opinions).
If the movie were to be remade, perhaps someone other than George could be found. Hollywood does have a few really decent male actors. Sadly most of the real "greats" are no longer among the living. (just my opinions).
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Young Lenny Dicaprio is the only one coming up after him with that traditional, Hollywood leading man quality carried over from the 40s. I enjoy both much more than the majority of performers out there these days.
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Cate Blanchett.
She would do nicely.
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Quentin Tarantino...??
Edward
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It would be intersting to see Scarlett get something decent to work with again, rather than just a whole slew of 'eye-candy' roles. Can't recall why Cate Blanchett would be wrong for the role on grounds of age.... but then I hate the Hollywood convention of casting men who are about a million opposite girls young enough to be their own granddaughter and expecting us to take a romantic plotline between them seriously.
I'd love to see that. He seems to be a bit of a Marmite director - personally I love him - but I don't think anyone could fairly argue that he doesn't have a knack for using an offbeat choice in a way you couldn't have otherwise imagined. Look at the depth he gave Bruce Willis, or how he reinvented John Travolta (of course, TRavolta threw it all away again by appearing in some appalling tripe after Pulp Fiction, but there you go). The only other such revelation I've seen borne of a creative director's casting someone against type was Christopher Walken in Hairspray.
I'm going off age as well as look and feel. George is within about 3 years of Cary Grant when he played the role and Eva Marie Saint was 35. Scarlett would be a closer fit physically and I think would play that kind of character better than Cate who I see more in the realms of a Katherine Hepburn.
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If that's the age spread we need, here's your girl. Claire Danes. 52-35.
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If memory serves, she actually played Hepburn in The Aviator.
Jinkies, no. Dreadul woman, utterly fails to convince in anything. I'd cast her ahead of Jennifer Aniston, but that's like saying a kick in the teeth is better than one below the belt.
If that's the age spread we need, here's your girl. Claire Danes. 52-35.
Wasn't she the female lead in Romeo + Juliet and My So-called Life?
