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Post by gato on Mar 21, 2022 8:02:54 GMT -5
Because actors typically seek out diverse roles to show off their chops, we get a melting pot of characters to mix and match. So, what if we take an actor's role from one movie he's in, and transplant it to another one of his works.
For instance, remember The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman? What if Mrs Robinson is attempting to seduce Hoffman's Rain Man character. She's doing her best, but the object of her advances keeps rearranging fish sticks on his plate, and reminding the seductress that it's almost time for Judge Wapner.
Hey, what's going on in that tent pitched on Brokeback Mountain, between Jake Gyllenhaal and The Joker?
Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke has always had a green thumb, which is why she welcomes The Thing (James Arness), the vegetable alien, into the Long Branch. He's gonna destroy his opponent in every quick draw encounter, until he comes up against a bad guy with a flame thrower.
Apollo 13 is in more trouble than Houston thought, with Forrest Gump in charge aboard the endangered spacecraft, who shares insights from his mom: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
Whatcha got? Remember: the actor has to appear in both of the movies / tv shows.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 21, 2022 10:55:10 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson: In "As Good As It Gets", obsessive-compulsive Melvin Udall tries his hardest to be charming around love interest Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt) to no avail when Henry Moon's personality ("Goin' South") breaks through and says "I wouldn't take you to a dog-fight if you was the defendin' champ!".
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 21, 2022 11:06:33 GMT -5
In "Of Mice and Men", Lon Chaney Jr.'s "Lenny" character begs, "George...tell me about the rabbits". Unfortunately, Burgess Meredith's character, "George", waxes a bit too eloquent in his description of "the place we'll get, someday". By the he gets around to describing "the rabbits", the sun has set, the full moon has risen and "Lenny" has become "Larry Talbot" who morphs into "The Wolfman" and attacks George viciously.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 21, 2022 11:25:15 GMT -5
During the filming of "The Godfather", Brando's "Vito Corleone" character shows up on set in the persona of psychopathic bounty hunter "Lee Clayton" from the western, "Missouri Breaks". Wearing a beaded buckskin jacket, he holds court in his dimly-lit, wood-paneled office, granting audience to a procession of supplicants who beg for favors or protection. Instead of pledging to grant their requests in exchange for "something you will perhaps be able to do for me one day", he taunts them sarcastically in an exaggerated Irish accent and shoots knicknacks off the office shelves with his silver-plated Colt revolver.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 21, 2022 11:53:15 GMT -5
"Elvis" from "Clambake" turns up as "Elvis" in "King Creole".
Nobody in the audience notices...
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Post by modbus on Mar 21, 2022 11:55:54 GMT -5
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cybernetic assassin sent back in time from an apocalyptic future to whip a kindergarten class into shape, while teaching them colors and shapes. Terror and hilarity ensue in "Kindergarten Terminator".
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Post by modbus on Mar 21, 2022 11:57:46 GMT -5
"Elvis" from "Clambake" turns up as "Elvis" in "King Creole". Nobody in the audience notices... Along those lines, John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn as Genghis Khan.
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Post by gato on Mar 26, 2022 10:30:15 GMT -5
Remember "Bridges of Madison County," with Clint Eastwood? Roaming photographer Clint Eastwood takes up with married Meryl Streep while her family is out of town on a trip. A tragically doomed romance story. So, instead, it's trucker/prize fighter Clint who woos the lonely housewife, along with his pet orangutan, Clyde. The only thing that saves the couple from the Black Widow motorcycle gang is that there isn't enough parking available at the house.
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Post by modbus on Mar 26, 2022 11:21:57 GMT -5
Billy Bob Thorton as a recently released mentally challenged ex-murderer who takes a job as a mall Santa in Phoenix, all the while enjoying french fried taters from the food court and large derriered women in the fitting rooms.
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Post by gato on Mar 26, 2022 15:35:12 GMT -5
Billy Bob Thorton as a recently released mentally challenged ex-murderer who takes a job as a mall Santa in Phoenix, all the while enjoying french fried taters from the food court and large derriered women in the fitting rooms. "........ ummmm I lahk your voice ... ummmm"
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 26, 2022 16:51:04 GMT -5
"White Heat"/"Yankee Doodle Dandy" mashup:
When psychopathic killer and mama's boy Cody Jarret (James Cagney) is cornered by police at a industrial plant, the exertion of climbing to the top of a massive storage tank filled with volatile chemicals triggers one of his migraine headaches. The severe pain thereof causes him to hallucinate that he is actually Vaudeville hoofer George M. Cohan. Once atop the storage tank, he breaks into frenetic dancing, the friction generated by his tap shoes creating heat sufficient to ignite the chemicals in the tank, which blow just as he shouts "top o' the world, Ma!"
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 26, 2022 17:12:53 GMT -5
"Gran Torino"/"Rawhide" mashup:
Retired ramrod Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) becomes disgruntled when a family of Hmong immigrants moves in next door. Rowdy's temper flares when his new, teenaged, Hmong neighbor, Thao, tries to steal the restored, meticulously-maintained chuck wagon parked in his garage. However, Yates eventually warms to the lad and takes him under his wing, teaching him how to rope, brand, scout the trail ahead and make really bad coffee and flapjacks. Probably due to the early onset of dementia (though we are never told) Yates often demands that Thao call him by another name (sometimes "Wishbone" and sometimes "Mr. Favor"). Eventually, Yates is ambushed and killed by a band of renegade Comanches who have been attempting to get Thao to join their tribe, but Thao does wind up getting the chuck wagon.
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Post by modbus on Mar 26, 2022 18:13:00 GMT -5
Dustin Hoffman as a crossdressing soap opera star who breaks up his ex-girlfriend's wedding after investing in plastics and getting seduced by an older woman.
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Post by gato on Mar 27, 2022 6:07:15 GMT -5
Barbara Billingsley returns from Detroit aboard an Airplane, and stuns her TV family of Ward, Wally and the Beaver because she now speaks Jive.
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Post by modbus on Mar 27, 2022 7:57:03 GMT -5
Paul Newman plays the Sundance Kid, who after his latest crime spree of cutting the heads off parking meters finds himself in a Florida prison camp. While there, he is titillated by a car wash, and eats 50 eggs to sustain himself over a long weekend of getting his dirt out of Boss Kean's ditch.
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Post by gato on Mar 27, 2022 8:41:52 GMT -5
Yul Brenner, fresh from his role in the King and I, gathers his Magnificent 7 dancers to dazzle Mexican bad guy Calvera. They could have danced all night, but the sight of Charles Bronson in a ball gown and pumps, causes the villagers to revolt.
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Post by modbus on Mar 27, 2022 9:36:48 GMT -5
Burt Reynolds is in a race against the clock, trying take a shipment of Coors beer down a remote river by canoe, before the river is dammed. Along the way, he picks up a beautiful young runaway bride, and his bumbling sidekick Otis picks up a couple of admirers as well.
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 27, 2022 10:27:33 GMT -5
"The Fugitive"/"Star Wars"/"Men in Black" mashup:
Dr. Richard Solo (Harrison Ford) falsely accused and convicted of having murdered Princess Leia on the Ice Planet of Hoth, escapes from the Death Star while being transported to the execution to which he has been sentenced. Solo is then chased relentlessly by "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) and "J" (Will Smith). The innocent doctor must evade his black-suited pursuers while simultaneously tracking down the true killer, "Edgar" (a farmer [Vincent D'Onofrio] whose body has become inhabited by an alien named Jabba the Hutt). Inexplicably, great swarms of giant Chickenroaches (also known as "Palmetto Bugs in Florida) spew out of random places on the set at unexpected intervals throughout the movie, adding to the overall confusion between the scripts. David Prowse makes a cameo appearance as "Darth Vader" who, in addition to breathing heavily through a COVID mask and speaking in a exaggerated, upper-class British accent, also has inexplicably lost an arm. After what seems to the audience to have been an interminable run time, the movie ends with The Rebels' triumphant destruction of the Death Star.
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Post by gato on Mar 27, 2022 12:25:27 GMT -5
"I'm your buttercup," says Val Kilmer's Batman character to Johnny Ringo, during the climactic showdown in Tombstone. Earlier, a drunken Batman had faced off with Ringo at the Faro table, each spouting pig Latin at the other.
"Our-yay ama-may o-say at-fay...." (your mama so fat...) "-I'may ubber-ray and-ay ou're-yay ue-glay" (I'm rubber and you're glue)
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Post by gato on Mar 28, 2022 8:00:14 GMT -5
Daniel La Russo quits his Crossroads guitar gig, and travels across the country with his single mom who is chasing a job offer.
In their new apartment building, Daniel discovers Mr. Miyagi in his workshop, trying to teach himself to play an old Stratocaster from a book of ukulele chords. Daniel learns that the old duffer is Okinawan and supplements his meager meals by catching flies with chopsticks. He takes Miyagi under his wing and soon has the would-be rocker shredding power chords and parroting things like "capo on - capo off" and "this amp goes to eleven."
In the climactic street competition scene, busker Miyagi is pitted against an accordion player with an extra thumb, but goes all John Entwhistle on the dude, doing an eye catching "windmill", before destroying his axe against a lamp post while screaming, "Banzai! Banzai!"
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Post by gato on Mar 29, 2022 7:04:43 GMT -5
No one expected the takeover of Die Hard's Nakatomi building by a gang of over-the-top gun thugs, but then no one expected bad boy Bruce Willis from Pulp Fiction to show up, with a ball gag in one end and his dad's pocket watch in the other. And then the Gimp showed up to play charades with the hostages.
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Post by gato on Mar 30, 2022 4:46:05 GMT -5
Fresh from his gig as a naked body builder / Terminator, Arnie surfaces in the jungles of Saint Sweats-Alot. He is joined by the ex-governor of Minnesota and Apollo Creed, heavy weight boxer, still stinging from getting owned by Rocky Balboa. They all clamber off the black helicopter to smoke cigars and share ribald jokes, but then Arnie gets serious and tells them, "come with me if you want to be stalked by a murderous invisible alien, with a bad facial tic, who isn't Sylvester Stallone."
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Post by MoJoe on Mar 30, 2022 5:47:06 GMT -5
The American Friend Tom Ripley turning around Easy Rider's final scene with a garotte somehow. Alternative ending, The Shining's Jack Torrance appearing from under a blanket on same pickup bed, axing away.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 30, 2022 7:41:41 GMT -5
A few years ago I was watching a daytime soap opera with my wife. One of the characters pulled a gun on another person. An actress in the scene was played by the woman who played Kevin's mother on The Wonder Years.
I expected her to say, "Don't shoot. It'll go on your permanent record."
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Post by gato on Mar 30, 2022 7:47:48 GMT -5
Rocky "eats lightning and craps thunder" according to his trainer, Mickey The Penguin. But he keeps chocolate donuts next to his turtle tank in order to seduce women with low self esteem. Colonel Trautman says that Rambo is "a man who's been trained to eat things that would make a billy goat puke". But he also beats up on cops who survive on a diet of donuts.
Apparently Rocky and Rambo are both movies that are, on a subliminal level, about food. Which raises the inevitable question: what exactly makes a billy goat puke, and would Adrian let Rocky keep one in his apartment after she moved in?
Note: Does Adrian know about Rocky being Rambo, or is this a Lois Lane situation?
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Post by orrk01 on Mar 30, 2022 8:18:07 GMT -5
Leonard Smalls grabs H.I. McDonough in an attempt to collect the bounty money for the kidnapping of Nathan Jr. in Raising Arizona. H.I. turns on the 'warthog from hell' but now he's Johnny Blaze (AKA Ghost Rider). He gives Smalls the 'penance stare' and Smalls shrinks in horror because, let's face it, he's done some bad things in his lifetime. Johnny hops on Smalls's motorcycle, which becomes surrounded by hellfire as H.I. rides off to find Ed (Holly Hunter) and Nathan Jr.
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Post by gato on Mar 30, 2022 12:59:22 GMT -5
Good morning Mrs. Doubtfire! You thought you could dodge the Vietnam draft, by pretending to be a dowdy housekeeper by day, and half of the onstage comedy act of Mork and Mindy by night. But you were outed by Captain Hook. Nanu-Nanu.
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Post by gato on Mar 31, 2022 11:10:42 GMT -5
Michael Douglas flees to Colombia to get away from the Fatal Attraction of Glenn Close, only to wind up being pursued by Danny DeVito, who desperately wants to be Romancing the Stone in his package.
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Post by gato on Apr 1, 2022 5:15:12 GMT -5
Richard Dreyfuss has had it with Quint and his obsession with raking his fingernails down a blackboard at Amity town hall meetings, and telling people "how I make a living."
He goes back to New York, only to discover that Marsha Mason has taken over his apartment. She has two girls, one of whom she turned into a hamster. They reach an agreement: he will be allowed to play naked guitar, but each morning as Mason leaves for work, he has to say, "goodbye, girl."
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Post by gato on Apr 2, 2022 10:35:31 GMT -5
Charles Bronson is on lockdown in a prisoner of war camp, with Steve McQueen, James Coburn and others. They all meet up on the camp playground every day to plot their "Great Escape." All the details are sorted out, including storing McQueen's motorcycle in the tunnel they've been digging with soup spoons. But dang it ... every time they're about to start the countdown on their dash for freedom, some German guard makes a rude comment about New York City. Bronson freaks out, pulls a revolver he got from a land developer in Arizona and guns down the guard. It's like he has a Death Wish. Von Luger, the camp Kommandant, gets his lederhosen in a twist and everyone gets sent to bed without supper. Again.
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