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Favorite "Cast Against Type" performances

post #1 of 20
6/26/04 at 5:11pm
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Even if the film's content is questionable, I'm always willing to give an actor the benefit of the doubt that he/she can do something totally 180. This list also applies to TV performances as well.

My favorites are:

Henry Fonda-Once Upon a Time in the West.

Robin Williams-Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent

Rita Hayworth-Lady from Shanghai

James Woods-Virgin Suicides

Tom Sizemore-Saving Private Ryan

Morgan Freeman-Street Smart

Ben Kingsley-Sexy Beast

Andy Griffith-Face in the Crowd
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post #2 of 20
6/27/04 at 2:12pm
Humphrey Bogart-Treasure of Sierra Madre
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post #3 of 20
6/27/04 at 3:18pm

Re: Favorite "Cast Against Type" performances

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Originally posted by GET AIDS NOW!
Andy Griffith-Face in the Crowd
Yes, yes.

Also Stallone in Cop Land.

Taylor Negron in The Last Boy Scout.

Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People.

Jack Nicholson in Ironweed.

Meg Ryan in Hurlyburly.

Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts.

Gabriel Byrne in Mad Dog Time.

William Hurt in I Love You to Death.
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post #4 of 20
6/27/04 at 3:36pm
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Muncie Girl-

Dunno if you watch The Sopranos, but Frankie Valli played a pretty unsavory character this past season.
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post #5 of 20
6/27/04 at 8:15pm
Joey Pants and Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento
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post #6 of 20
6/27/04 at 8:20pm

Re: Favorite "Cast Against Type" performances

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Tom Sizemore-Saving Private Ryan
I didn't see this as being "against type" in the least. Giovanni Ribisi not portraying a nutfuck was, though.
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post #7 of 20
6/27/04 at 8:50pm
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Before I saw Saving Private Ryan, I knew Tom Sizemore to be a psycho, double-crosser, and a cold hearted thief in such movies as Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, and Heat. Being a loyal compassionate solider in Saving Private Ryan was the first decent character I saw him play.

Joey Pants in Memento...I don't know if that was an "against type" role for him.

Other performances:

Cameron Diaz-Being John Malkovich

Dan Ackroyd-Grosse Point Blank

John Candy-JFK

Jon Lovitz-Happiness
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post #8 of 20
6/27/04 at 8:59pm

Re: Re: Favorite "Cast Against Type" performances

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Also Stallone in Cop Land.
This I TOTALLY agree with. Brilliant performance by Stallone.


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Tim Robbins in Bob Roberts.

Gabriel Byrne in Mad Dog Time.
These, not so much - because I regard these two guys as pretty f'n good if not great actors, I don't really subscribe to them having a "type." Byrne maybe a little less, but what's Robbins' archetypal role - Nuke LaLoosh? Merlin in Top Gun? The Player? the dude in Shawshank Redemption?
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post #9 of 20
6/27/04 at 10:50pm
I don't know if this goes against type but it was a change for this actor:

Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love
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post #10 of 20
6/27/04 at 10:52pm
Just thought of another one:

Charlize Theron in Monster
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post #11 of 20
6/27/04 at 11:18pm
This may be a bit obscure, but Peter Stormare in Dancer in the Dark.
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post #12 of 20
6/27/04 at 11:19pm

Re: Re: Re: Favorite "Cast Against Type" performances

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Originally posted by Chavez
These, not so much - because I regard these two guys as pretty f'n good if not great actors, I don't really subscribe to them having a "type." Byrne maybe a little less, but what's Robbins' archetypal role - Nuke LaLoosh? Merlin in Top Gun? The Player? the dude in Shawshank Redemption?
It's not so much that they get typed in the most obvious sense, it just seems to me like Tim Robbins almost always plays a character that's at least a little clueless, be it in Cadillac Man, The Hudsucker Proxy, or Jacob's Ladder. This was the first film he did (that I knew of) in which his character was clever (and evil) enough to fool people. Then again, I thought that Bob Roberts came out before The Player, and looking at IMDB I see that I'm wrong.
Byrne I chose for pretty much the opposite reason, he seems to play characters most of the time that know a little more than the other guys--wiser and more reserved, usually. And in Mad Dog Time he was just this blustering fool. Did you know that that film is supposed to be an allegory for the Apocrypha?
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post #13 of 20
6/27/04 at 11:20pm
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Muncie Girl-

Dunno if you watch The Sopranos, but Frankie Valli played a pretty unsavory character this past season.

Oh my goodness. I've been deliberately staying away from that series because I know it's exactly the sort of thing that I'll love--and it's such a huge investment of time and money! And now I have another reason to want to see it. Damn!
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post #14 of 20
6/27/04 at 11:57pm
Ronny Cox, who used to play nice guys, turned out some great evil preformances for Paul Verhoven in Robocop and Total Recall.
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post #15 of 20
6/27/04 at 11:59pm
Steve Martin in The Spanish Prisoner

Michael Keaton in Batman

Leslie Nielson in Airplane, Police Squad/ Naked Gun movies (although now he's typecast in these types of roles)
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post #16 of 20
6/28/04 at 12:02am
...and Will Smith in 6 Degrees of Separation
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post #17 of 20
6/28/04 at 12:44am
Robert DeNiro in Analyze This.

Jim Carrey in The Truman Show.

George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Robin Williams in Insomnia.
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post #18 of 20
6/28/04 at 12:51am
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Originally posted by E.C.
Robert DeNiro in Analyze This.
I'll say De Niro as well but in Midnight Run instead.
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post #19 of 20
6/28/04 at 12:58am
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Robin Williams in Insomnia.
And definetly One Hour Photo. Possibly in The Final Cut, as well, coming out in September.
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post #20 of 20
6/28/04 at 4:21am
Brad Pitt - Kalifornia/12 Monkeys... take your pick.. broke the pretty boy mold, for the good of all mankind
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