He was, P-C, but it was all before your time.
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
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Lee - Oct 05, 2004 1:39:36 pm PDT #4382 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2004 1:45:02 pm PDT #4383 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is Bob Hoskins ever not evil?
Roger Rabbit, young grasshopper.
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2004 1:54:51 pm PDT #4384 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Roger Rabbit, young grasshopper.
HEY FUCK YOU I LOVE THAT MOVIE.
But oh yeah, not evil.
Scrappy - Oct 05, 2004 1:56:15 pm PDT #4385 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also "Last Orders," where he is quite charming.
Invisible Green - Oct 05, 2004 3:18:44 pm PDT #4386 of 10001
And there was the Mario Bros. movie. (I actually liked that one.)
Polter-Cow - Oct 05, 2004 4:12:20 pm PDT #4387 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
See, I was thinking of that one, but I thought he played the bad guy. But you're right, he was Mario. Who was the bad guy? Dennis Hopper? He's evil a lot too.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2004 5:45:01 pm PDT #4388 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Evil...annoying...he makes it hard to tell the difference.
DavidS - Oct 05, 2004 7:07:44 pm PDT #4389 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Evil...annoying...he makes it hard to tell the difference.
Dude, you're evil and you're hardly ever annoying.
Thomash - Oct 05, 2004 10:05:24 pm PDT #4390 of 10001
I have a plan.
What they didn't mention is that Courtney Cox was in Masters of the Universe.
So was the guy who played Tom Paris on ST Voyager.
Kathy A - Oct 05, 2004 10:14:03 pm PDT #4391 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of Morgan Freeman, I bought and viewed the 10th anniversary special edition DVD of The Shawshank Redemption today. Excellent release, with lots of great extras. A few things I learned:
- One of the reasons Darabont changed the title from "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" was that they were actually getting resumes coming in from actresses who wanted the role of Rita Hayworth, thinking that it was a biopic. The agent of an unnamed supermodel, who was trying to branch out into acting at the time, actually told the producers that she thought that the script was the best thing she'd ever read, and that her client would be perfect as Hayworth.
- The "silent silent partner," Randall Stevens, was Peter Stevens in the novella, but because there was a prominent accountant in LA named Peter Stevens, Darabont decided to change the name. He picked "Randall" as a reference to another Stephen King character, Randall Flagg.
- One of the biggest things that Darabont emphasizes in the commentary is the work of the production designer, who he feels was unfairly shut out of an Oscar nom. The prison they used was in horrible shape inside, so the production team had to practically rebuild a lot of the interiors. Also, the cell block was a completely soundstaged set, created at a warehouse a few miles from the prison in Ohio.
There are two very good docs on the second disc, as well as a recent Charlie Rose segment with Darabont, Freeman, and Robbins, and a fairly amusing parody called "The Sharktank Redemption" starring Freeman's son (who posed for Red's mug shots in the feature film, as well as appeared as one of the taunting convicts in the opening scene, "reeling in" the fresh fish).