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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #320 on: July 04, 2013, 03:33:14 PM »
Going older, Walter Brennan

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #321 on: July 04, 2013, 04:08:29 PM »
The ultimate answer would probably be John Cazale.

Not when one of the criteria is "Someone with a lot of credits".

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #322 on: July 04, 2013, 05:49:21 PM »
What movie cemented this person's reputation for you?

Thomas Mitchell - Only Angels Have Wings
Ernest Borgnine - Emperor of the North

Does Claude Rains fit the bill? I love everything he's in.

I forgot about him, one of my all time favorite character actors.  :-[
Claude Rains - Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Going older, Walter Brennan

100 demerits for Rio Bravo, otherwise another solid choice. I loved him in My Darling Clementine. Marshalling....... in Tombstone??
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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #323 on: July 04, 2013, 07:18:41 PM »
Marie Windsor took some warming up. I wasn't used to her rhythms when I saw The Killing, but after The Narrow Margin I agree. Gloria Grahame is a good choice too, with Oklahoma being a large exception.

I like Thomas Mitchell, who I don't remember in Gone With the Wind or High Noon, but won't forget after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. My brain sometimes mixes him with Edmond O'Brien who left his mark on me with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

Walter Brennan is a great pick. I underestimated him until I saw The Westerner and learned soon after he'd won 3 Oscars. I have similar regard for Walter Huston. I don't know if Huston is more of a leading actor, but I know him more from Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Yankee Doodle Dandy than Dodsworth.

That reminds me of another great that always gets me excited... Barry Fitzgerald. Ever since Going my Way I've been happy to see him in And Then There Were None (with Huston), The Naked City, The Long Voyage Home, The Sea Wolf, How Green Was My Valley, and of course, The Quiet Man.

You could sub-question this in regards to the John Ford players. Always enjoy seeing them, especially Hank Worden, whose never had more than a cameo except in The Searchers.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #324 on: July 04, 2013, 09:21:48 PM »
Peter Mullan is probably the correct answer. Children of Men, HP7, Trainspotting, etc.

Plus he has modest lead work in Tyrannosaur, directing cred for Magdalene Sisters and TV cred for Top of the Lake.
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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #325 on: July 04, 2013, 10:38:10 PM »
Peter Mullan

Good answer.

directing cred for Magdalene Sisters

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #326 on: July 05, 2013, 01:40:19 AM »

Who is your Stanton and/or Walsh?
Someone with a lot of credits.
Rarely if ever the lead.
You get way more excited than anyone else to learn they're in the film.



First one that popped into my head cause I've watched a few things recently where he shows up is Christian Berkel .

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #327 on: July 05, 2013, 09:47:13 AM »
I'd never heard of him, but he's certainly got a nice list of credits. I recognize him as the bartender from the basement scene in Inglourious Basterds.

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Re: Movie Questions For You to Answer
« Reply #328 on: July 05, 2013, 09:54:32 AM »
Ward Bond for me. Most recently in The Maltese Falcon.
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Movie Questions For You to Answer - Your Life in 10 Movies
« Reply #329 on: January 25, 2015, 01:42:04 PM »
Patton Oswalt released a book about his cinema addiction called Silver Screen Fiend. Promoting it he named 10 Movies that Changed His Life. What titles fit these descriptions for you?

1. Your earliest movie that probably started your love of movies?
2. The film that defined your generation?
3. The great film your parents didn't want you to see?
4. The great shocking film your parents didn't even know existed? One you came across on your own.
5. The film that you closely identify with your career or what it is you wanted to be?
6. A genre breaker, that opened up narrow definitions of that genre?
7. An unsafe comedy from the classic era?
8. A comedy about a subject that shouldn't be funny?
9. A modern movie that proves they still make 'em like they used to?
10. A film that made you rethink your life?

Patton's Answers:
1. Nosferatu
2. Star Wars
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Female Trouble
5. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
6. Cabaret ("It's using the form of a movie musical in this almost sort of sardonic, mocking way to comment on this absolutely awful subject.")
7. It's a Gift
8. Aaltra ("it's a Belgian movie about these two assholes that become paraplegic and end up traveling around the country in their wheelchairs.")
9. Big Fan
10. Ikiru!, Groundhog Day and After Life