Typecasted Actors and Actors Playing Against Type

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headphonics

#21 May 18, 2008, 07:07:08 pm

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wasn't kikuchi's character in babel just very lonely/in need of human contact? i guess it's sort of a stretch but that could be viewed as LOVE ME/NEED ATTENTION which is definitely one of the stereotypes i associate with female roles.

also i never saw walk the line but i didn't know witherspoon's was cast as a lead character!

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#22 May 18, 2008, 07:12:20 pm

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Quote from: headphonics on May 18, 2008, 07:07:08 pm

wasn't kikuchi's character in babel just very lonely/in need of human contact? i guess it's sort of a stretch but that could be viewed as LOVE ME/NEED ATTENTION which is definitely one of the stereotypes i associate with female roles.

It could be viewed that way, I guess. I always looked at it as... a little more than that, though.

Quote from: headphonics on May 18, 2008, 07:07:08 pm

also i never saw walk the line but i didn't know witherspoon's was cast as a lead character!

Co-lead with Joaquin Phoenix, so I should've put her in the co-lead category. She doesn't have nearly as much screentime as he does, though.

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#23 May 18, 2008, 07:40:25 pm

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Yes, yes... perhaps a PHILISTINE would interpret it that way, but *I* got... a little more out of it.

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#24 May 20, 2008, 01:19:05 pm

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Man, I also have to say that I don't think Robin Williams is a typecast actor. Not unless you are an idiot who only watches Family movies anyway. If you look at the comparison over such a long period of time of his roles in Dead Poet Society, Goodmorning Vietnam, Death to Smoochy, One Hour Photo. The films he's been doing have been going on 20 years or more? And he's done such a broad range of roles over that entire period of time. It's not like he suddenly said I'VE BEEN DOING JUMANJI AND FLUBBER FOR 20 YEARS, NOW IT'S TIME TO DO ONE HOUR PHOTO.

He did Goodmorning Vietnam long before he did Jumanji or Flubber or any of the other shitty Family Movies he's done and in all the time he's done a really really broad range of characters. Robin Williams is WAY less typecast than someone like Sam Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino or even fucking HUMPHREY BOGART dare I say it.

I think now would be a good time to inject that Dead Poet Society really made me cry and I think it is the only film that has got that kind of reaction out of me since like, the original cut of Fox and the Hound.... Yeah.

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#25 May 20, 2008, 03:14:46 pm

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Quote from: scubacoaster on May 20, 2008, 01:19:05 pm

Robin Williams is WAY less typecast than someone like Sam Jackson, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino or even fucking HUMPHREY BOGART dare I say it.

Samuel L Jackson doesn't play characters in movies. He plays SAMUEL L MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON in every single fucking movie. Jesus Christ, he is the most annoying actor in existence.

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#26 May 20, 2008, 03:41:08 pm

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I'm not sure if Kate Beckinsale has been in more movies like Underworld but I would say that was against the usual.. Oh shit I just remembered she played that same type of character in Van Hellshit?

Didn't Meg Ryan do something out of the norm and play some freaky suicidal chick in a horror or I don't know?

That guy who used to be in Charmed and is now doing Niptuck, the guy who was Dr Doom or something in Fantastic Four, I forgot his name, he changed completely from Charmed to his character in Niptuck which I think he did pretty well... Julian McMahon!! that's it haha.

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#27 May 26, 2008, 07:38:36 am

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Man Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock are HORRIBLY typecasted actresses.

The thing is, I don't think they're good drama actresses, though. All their attempts to break out of type have been sort of bad.

Meg Ryan in Proof of Life and In the Cut. Just two mediocre performances in two mediocre-to-bad movies.

Sandra Bullock in Murder by Numbers, The Lake House and Crash (2004). The first two are really wooden mediocre performances and well, I'll give her a little credit for her role in Crash as YELLING WHITE WOMAN. But still, not enough.

Did you guys know Leslie Nielsen was a serious actor before Airplane?

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#28 May 26, 2008, 05:25:18 pm

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Quote from: Strangeluv on May 26, 2008, 07:38:36 am

Did you guys know Leslie Nielsen was a serious actor before Airplane?

Yeah I knew that. I haven't seen any of his serious movies but honestly I think I could see him doing serious roles.

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#29 May 27, 2008, 10:28:45 pm

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Quote from: Strangeluv on May 18, 2008, 01:10:50 am

Cage playing lonely depressed characters isn't unfamiliar territory for him, though. He's played the depressed types in Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas and The Weather Man.

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#30 May 31, 2008, 07:47:42 am

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i don't usually give much of a shit about actors who get typecast(usually they were deserving of it in the first place) but the only example of BREAKING THAT that i ever really cared about was humphrey bogart in treasure of sierra madre. i think his role has a little extra value if you're aware of the rest of his career, mainly because he was never ever THAT GOOD in anything else, so watching the movie you kinda believe that bogart IS ACTUALLY LOSING IT

also i guess alec guiness in a passage to india where he broke through that nasty habit of everyone type casting him as NON-INDIAN CHARACTERS. it's too bad nobody much seems to remember this movie. it's not david lean's most AWE-INSPIRING MOVIE visually but i think it manages to tackle some exceptionally difficult subject matter in the best way possible.

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#31 June 01, 2008, 10:11:04 am

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I don't know why you've listed Viggo Mortensen there, he's not a typecast actor at all imo.

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#32 June 01, 2008, 05:13:01 pm

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He's not typecast but I figured he was a really easy target for typecasting because of his Aragorn character in Lord of the Rings. Even his next movie, Hidalgo, sort of reminded me of it.

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#33 June 04, 2008, 11:26:19 am

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Awesome thread, really liked the first post. I agree with nearly all of them.

I'd like to point out Joesph Gordon-Levitt in a role playing against type. He's best known for his roles in 3rd Rock from the Sun, 10 Things I Hate About You, Treasure Planet, H20 and pretty much silly stuff in general. He did a few semi-serious roles but nothing on a big level. I sorta wrote him off as another generic young actor until I saw Mysterious Skin, and holy shit did he destroy all my misconceptions with that. It was nothing like his other roles, he played a teenage gay hustler/male prostitute who was abused as a child (and enjoyed it). I thought it was incredible how he worked the character, from the accent to the personality and the overall challenge of the role itself.

He's gone on to do more serious stuff which is good.

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#34 June 04, 2008, 05:04:07 pm

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Yeah, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is more of a serious actor nowadays, who stars in those independent films now. He's also done Brick and The Lookout, which you should see if you haven't if you want to see him play good serious roles. In Brick, which was like a modern film noir with high school teenagers, he imitated actors from the film noir genre and he did it pretty good! In The Lookout, he played a guy with Tourette's coaxed into a bank robbery and he played it fine enough for me.

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#35 June 04, 2008, 05:29:05 pm

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Quote from: Strangeluv on June 01, 2008, 05:13:01 pm

He's not typecast but I figured he was a really easy target for typecasting because of his Aragorn character in Lord of the Rings. Even his next movie, Hidalgo, sort of reminded me of it.

Hidalgo was a good movie.

Anyway, I think that's just Viggo's personality and acting style coming across. His roles in LotR and Hidalgo were very different, but the way he acted in each were not.

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#36 June 04, 2008, 07:21:27 pm

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I dunno Robin Williams seems to be playing nothing but crazy guys now and I think now he's been typecasted as that it's kind of annoying

Also Tom Cruise wasn't acting out of character when he played a crazy guy in Collateral lolol

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headphonics

#37 June 04, 2008, 07:31:11 pm

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man brick was such a cool movie, it's a shame no one ever talks about it! it came on and i looked it up on imdb and was like OHHHH GOD THIS IS GONNA BLOW but it totally didn't!

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#38 June 05, 2008, 03:40:51 am

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Someone just pointed this out on deviantart, and I realized I had totally forgotten about it: Bryan Cranston as the lead in Breaking Bad, as opposed to his role as the bumbling father Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. Seriously, such a huge gap between the two roles that I actually had no idea it was the same guy until I wikied the show.

I guess it's television instead of movies, but I think it works about the same.

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#39 June 07, 2008, 11:23:02 pm

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Quote from: WunderBread on June 05, 2008, 03:40:51 am

Someone just pointed this out on deviantart, and I realized I had totally forgotten about it: Bryan Cranston as the lead in Breaking Bad, as opposed to his role as the bumbling father Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. Seriously, such a huge gap between the two roles that I actually had no idea it was the same guy until I wikied the show.

I guess it's television instead of movies, but I think it works about the same.

fuck yes

also wtf he was in ARMITAGE III

Edit: Oh shit he was in a lot of anime

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#40 June 09, 2008, 05:25:39 am

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