After a little digging, I see that the play was in 1939 (and Kate played the role there) and the movie came out in 1940. The play was written for her, too. How can she be too old to play a role that was written expressly for her?
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Glamcookie - Dec 07, 2006 12:57:38 pm PST #6328 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
bon bon - Dec 07, 2006 1:00:30 pm PST #6329 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Sparky, the first one that comes to mind is Three Kings. I haven't seen Black Hawk Down, but maybe others can comment.
ETA: there's a movie that came out recently about the search for, I think, Radovan Karadzic or some other Serbian war criminal, except it was lightly fictionalized. About a bunch of journalists that looked and realized he was pretty easy to find, I think. Haven't seen it.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2006 1:02:30 pm PST #6330 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sparky, you need all of the new BSG, it looks like. For torture and Star Trek you need ::lemme google:: the "Chain of Command" episode of TNG. Much of DS9 deals with war and war crimes too.
Moviewise, The Siege with Denzel Washington comes to mind.
dcp - Dec 07, 2006 1:05:01 pm PST #6331 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Sparky, I think The Killing Fields fits in that list.
Amy - Dec 07, 2006 1:06:38 pm PST #6332 of 10001
Because books.
I loved that movie! That's why I called whatzerface on Angel "The Little Girl Who Lived Up The Elevator Shaft."
I love it, too! (It's actually in my NetFlix queue because I caught the last fifteen minutes on some channel one night recently.) It just left me with a kind of squick for Martin Sheen. The book is good, too. I just love the idea of Rynn being that resourceful and calm at that age, even if it does mean doing some fairly creepy things.
bon bon - Dec 07, 2006 1:08:06 pm PST #6333 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hangmen Also Die deals with occupation and war crimes. But might be boring.
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2006 1:12:01 pm PST #6334 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
In the script, it has always seemed to me that she should be young to be divorced, that they were very much kids when they were married. Also, the age of her sister, and the lack of siblings in between, implies, to me, that she should probably be on the younger side of 30.
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:13:40 pm PST #6335 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
She was 32.
*I'M* 32.
Am I too old for that part????
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2006 1:14:03 pm PST #6336 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
Aims - Dec 07, 2006 1:18:01 pm PST #6337 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Arguing whether or not Kate Hepburn was too old for the lead in The Philadelphia Story.
Debet is eating the paste, while GC and I are right in saying that she was not.