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When Casting Nailed It... Examples? (Films)

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    #32
    is_that_so
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    Margaret Hamilton in the Wizard of Oz


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    #33
    Stop moaning ffs
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    Viggo Mortensen and Ian Mckellan In Lord of the Rings are both perfectly cast.


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    #34
    touts
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    Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct!


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    #35
    Cetyl Palmitate
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    Yalitza Aparicio in Roma


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    #36
    Quandary
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    Sam Rockwell was amazing in Moon.

    Robert Patrick as the T1000 in T2. I can't imagine a better antagonist.

    Samuel L Jackson was flawlessly cast as Jules Pulp Fiction. Honourable mention to John Travolta as Vincent.

    Jack Nicholson as the joker in original Batman

    So many more I can't think of right now.


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    #37
    timthumbni
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    Joaquin Phoenix in Joker. I know it isn’t out yet but I am sticking my neck out and saying he will be epic.

    Otherwise Tim robbins in shawshank and that Spanish guy in Pan’s Labyrinth that plays the army captain.


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    #38
    topmanamillion
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    Jaoquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
    Jack Nicholson as Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew over the cuckoo's nest.
    Arnie in the first terminator film

    To be fair I think great actors make the part not the other way around. Saying that its hard to imagine another actor playing the likes of Harry Callahan.


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    #39
    walshb
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    Eastwood on the Spaghettis..


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    #40
    Patser
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    Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws (also honourable mentions to Dreyfuss, Scheider and Murray Hamilton as the mayor)


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    #41
    RasTa
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    Ronald Lee Ermey - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman


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    #42
    banie01
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    Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck in Dune.

    Terrible movie, but he is exactly how I imagine Gurney everytime I read the books.
    Brash, verbose and Shakespearean ;)


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    #43
    TerrorFirmer
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    Leslie Nielsen in 'The Naked Gun'.


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    #44
    BailMeOut
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    Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.


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    #45
    Peatys
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    bullpost wrote: »
    Michael J Fox - Back to the Future

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_j78zftkg


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    #46
    Sandor Clegane
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    hugh jackman as wolverine.


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    Charles Ingles
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    John Wayne in the Quite Man


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    #48
    SaltSweatSugar
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    Tommy Wiseau as Johnny in The Room :p

    But seriously, Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-n-Furter in Rocky Horror
    Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing
    David Bowie in Labyrinth
    Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice
    Kathy Bates in Misery

    I’m sure there are many more I haven’t thought of.


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    Keplar240B
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    correction wrote: »
    Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild

    Paul Dano     in There Will be Blood

    Ryan Gosling in Drive

    Ed Norton in American History X

    Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

    Heath Ledger in Lords of Dogtown

    Jack Black in School of Rock

    Sylvester Stallone in Rocky

    Jake Gyllenhaal in Donnie Darko

    Colin Farrell in Phone Booth

    Gary Oldman in The Professional

    Adrien Brody in Detachment

    I could go on forever but I'll stop there. :D


    Such a classic actor.


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    Mam of 4
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    Sigourney Weaver in Alien /Aliens .

    Linda Hamilton in the Terminator films .


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    #51
    Charles Ingles
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    Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee


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    Ipso
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Viggo Mortensen and Ian Mckellan In Lord of the Rings are both perfectly cast.

    And Christopher Lee. Also him in Prince of Darkness.


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    AmberGold
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    Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in Sideways.
    Clooney in the Descendants.
    Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds.


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    #54
    squawker
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    Richard E Grant for Withnail and I

    And the whole cast of Clints Eastwood's majestic "Unforgiven"


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    #55
    silverharp
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    Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    Agent Coulson
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.


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    #57
    SaltSweatSugar
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    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.

    Clark Gregg as you...

    ...I’ll get my coat


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    #58
    quickbeam
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    Zorya wrote: »
    Carole Lombard in Gone With The Wind

    No.


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    byte
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    byte


    Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. I thought he portrayed that role well.


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    #60
    Patser
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    John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons

    John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich


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    #61
    Stop moaning ffs
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    squawker wrote: »
    Richard E Grant for Withnail and I

    And the whole cast of Clints Eastwood's majestic "Unforgiven"

    Oh wow!!

    Grant is fantastic in that role! Nobody else could have done it!
    A masterpiece and a brilliant performance.


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