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Seeing people out of context is a big factor too, though I suppose that wouldn't apply in NYC or LA where you expect to see famous people a bit more often. But if someone famous walks by you on the street you're more likely to think 'heh that guy looks just like Celebrity' than to actually recognise them, I reckon.
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Same goes for people you interact with regularly. Like once I in the south of Spain (visiting from the Netherlands) at a small market in a random tiny village and saw my neighbours from a few houses down the street. Super random coincidence. At first it's like heh, they look like Peter and Amanda and you take a second look and it still takes a weirdly long rear end time for your brain to process that it's actually them.
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Aug 4, 2021 20:52
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I’ve had people I worked with 48 hours a week be completely unrecognizable when they weren’t in their EMS uniforms.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:03
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I thought I was having lunch with Tom Cruise once but it was just David Mitchell.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:20
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Hell I went to my doctor to get some help with my depression and his advice was to go see my own show.
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HopperUK posted:Seeing people out of context is a big factor too, though I suppose that wouldn't apply in NYC or LA where you expect to see famous people a bit more often. But if someone famous walks by you on the street you're more likely to think 'heh that guy looks just like Celebrity' than to actually recognise them, I reckon. Taeke posted:Same goes for people you interact with regularly. Very very much this. As my new favorite example: my parents live literally around the corner from me. We see each other daily. Yesterday I went to grab lunch while masked up and on my way back I saw my mom standing at a stop light waiting to cross the street. She was fumbling in her purse and ended up having a facemask fall out of it. I called out to her "Mom! You dropped your mask!" and while she looked up at me, then saw where I was pointing, she never recognized her masked-up son sitting in his car 20 feet away from her in broad daylight. I called her a few minutes later to chat and she was surprised it was me.
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When I was in highschool I was walking around my town with a friend when my dad walked out of the nearby radioshack and stood next to me at the cross walk waiting for the light to change. I turned to him and said hi and he just looked at me for like 5 seconds before realizing who I was and said hi back and then walked away. Of course my dad is a loving weirdo.
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Aug 4, 2021 21:31
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Tony hawk weeps at your not-recognizing-celebrities stories
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HopperUK posted:Seeing people out of context is a big factor too, though I suppose that wouldn't apply in NYC or LA where you expect to see famous people a bit more often. But if someone famous walks by you on the street you're more likely to think 'heh that guy looks just like Celebrity' than to actually recognise them, I reckon. It’s all about context, I’ve met hundreds of famous people and unless they have something that really sets them apart I just have this vague ‘I should know who this is’ feeling.
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Aug 4, 2021 22:44
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Push El Burrito posted:Hell I went to my doctor to get some help with my depression and his advice was to go see my own show. I know this is a Pagliacci joke, but my brain read it in Larry David's voice
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Aug 4, 2021 23:01
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I walked past Marc Warren in front of the Bellagio when Hustle was still on the air, 100% sure it was him. But I couldn't remember his character's name, much less his actual name, so I didn't make it weird. Checked later, he was in Vegas for his birthday. Years later, I awkwardly shuffled past Evanna Lynch while deboarding in Scotland.
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My friend was at a wedding for a Ribisi sibling and Giovanni was in the reception line. He introduced himself to my friend who was like "yeah, I know."
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Aug 4, 2021 23:17
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I stopped Tony Stark's cave doctor from going up the suite elevators because he didn't have his key and had to help Magnum PI stop trying to drunk keying every door to find his room.
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Aug 4, 2021 23:20
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I have a few IIMM's with the Reeve Superman movies but Christopher Reeve is not one if them. Dude was born to play Superman and the bar he set for the role has been one of the main reasons most of the movies since then haven't worked as well or been as well received.
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ilmucche posted:Tony hawk weeps at your not-recognizing-celebrities stories That's the British comedian who did that Stutter Rap parody song back in the late 80s, yeah?
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Nah, I think it was the guy from dead poet's society
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BiggerBoat posted:I have a few IIMM's with the Reeve Superman movies but Christopher Reeve is not one if them. Dude was born to play Superman and the bar he set for the role has been one of the main reasons most of the movies since then haven't worked as well or been as well received. I thought Brandon Routh's portrayal in Superman Returns was fine. I actually liked Henry Cavill as Supes in the Snyderverse, but honestly both of them were stuck with some real dogshit scripts. IMO Reeves was great because Clark was written in those movies as an actual character. Clark had to do actual things & interact with people like Lois, Jimmy, and Perry. Too bad neither Brandon or Henry had the opportunity to try something along these lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaF0QKtY0c I haven't seen any of the TV versions of Superman so I can't comment on that.
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My best friend is a bodybuilding fanatic, and I recall him gushing over that scene as the pinnacle of physical acting because of how well Christopher Reeves simply changing his posture worked to transform the character on-screen. It's a fine bit of acting for sure, but bodybuilders are usually huge dorks and just like looking at bigger people.
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Wasabi the J posted:My best friend is a bodybuilding fanatic, and I recall him gushing over that scene as the pinnacle of physical acting because of how well Christopher Reeves simply changing his posture worked to transform the character on-screen. A great bit of "physical acting" as you describe it is the way David Boreanaz completely changes his mannerisms and posture when he changes from Angel to Angelus. And I am not talking about the silly vampire make up. There are a few scenes I remember where he just changes his posture, and you can tell he is acting as a different character.
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If we're talking about this sort of thing, the best example I know is from Dollhouse which was all about the actors becoming different people each week. No, not any scene with the "star" of the show because she couldn't act her way our of a wet paper bag. There was a scene where Enver Gjokaj had the mind of the chief scientist, played by Fran Kranz, downloaded into him so he could repair some tech which had broken. Now Gjokaj and Kranz look nothing alike, but he played the scene so well it was like watching the other actor. Then the other actor's character arrived and the two of them played the same person in the same scene and it was amazing.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:If we're talking about this sort of thing, the best example I know is from Dollhouse which was all about the actors becoming different people each week. Dollhouse is a show that I can never admit to liking publicly because the premise is really skeezy and it was written and produced by King Skeeze, Joss Whedon, but at the same time a lot of it is really, really good. I loved the season 1 finale where they thought they were being canceled so they just did an end-run into the social and economic consequences of the technology which caused an unfettered apocalypse. Then they got renewed and season 2 started leading up to that point with more and more sidelong references, before resolving the season 1 finale in another flash-forward. IIRC there were also some pretty decent comic books that took place in the lead up to and aftermath of the apocalypse but it's been easily a decade since I read them on a whim after finding them in a library.
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One movie I’ve never been able to recommend to anyone is Happiness (1998) The cast and their performances are fantastic: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Jon Lovitz, Lara Flynn Boyle, Camryn Manheim, Jared Harris The writing and direction also But it is brutally frank about its depiction of ordinary people who are deeply hosed up
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Keith Atherton posted:One movie I’ve never been able to recommend to anyone is Happiness (1998) The ending: A pre-teen young boy masturbates to completion whilst standing on a balcony perving on a sunbathing woman below. Then comes in to cheerfully, and innocently, tell his mother and her sisters, "I came". And that is not the darkest thing to happen in the film. To that character even. Such a good movie, but not a cheerful or uplifting one.
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Rockman Reserve posted:Dollhouse is a show that I can never admit to liking publicly because the premise is really skeezy and it was written and produced by King Skeeze, Joss Whedon, but at the same time a lot of it is really, really good. I loved the season 1 finale where they thought they were being canceled so they just did an end-run into the social and economic consequences of the technology which caused an unfettered apocalypse. Then they got renewed and season 2 started leading up to that point with more and more sidelong references, before resolving the season 1 finale in another flash-forward. IIRC there were also some pretty decent comic books that took place in the lead up to and aftermath of the apocalypse but it's been easily a decade since I read them on a whim after finding them in a library. Worth noting is that episode wasn't aired on tv. It was DVD exclusive. The only good point if s1 that actually made me interested in the show and you didn't see it without buying the DVD or piracy. quote:On April 9, 2009, Whedon rebutted speculation that Fox was set to cancel the show. Producer Tim Minear explained that the "missing" 13th episode (titled "Epitaph One") would be on the DVD release of the season. The reason Minear gave for that episode being dropped from the broadcast run was that the Fox network was counting the original first episode ("Echo"), which went unaired, as part of the original 13-episode order; in contrast, the Fox production company was required by contract to have a minimum of 13 completed episodes for international and DVD releases. According to both Minear and Whedon, the producers felt that the original first episode, having been subsequently scrapped entirely and having had its footage reused for other episodes throughout the season, should not be counted as a completed episode as part of their own 13-episode orders for international and DVD distribution but rather as a DVD extra, and thus Whedon produced a new 13th episode on a lower budget to fulfill the contractual requirements for the international broadcasts. The episode was screened at Comic-Con on July 24, 2009.
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 It was there when I saw it on Netflix, back when you had to throw a disc into your PS3 to stream stuff.
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Rockman Reserve posted:
Which still wasn't aired on tv and counts as home release
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One of my favorite performances where you can tell an actor is a different character mainly by how they carry themselves is James Nesbitt in Jekyll. He does wear contacts and they change his hairline and a few subtle other things when he becomes Hyde, but he also carries himself completely differently.
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David Tennant also pulls that off very well in the third season of the Who reboot, in Human Nature. Actors are magicians basically.
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Keith Atherton posted:One movie I’ve never been able to recommend to anyone is Happiness (1998) "Haha yeah man, it's like how I can't recommend Evangelion..." BrigadierSensible posted:The ending: "Ok, wait. Is this Evangelion?"
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BrigadierSensible posted:A great bit of "physical acting" as you describe it is the way David Boreanaz completely changes his mannerisms and posture when he changes from Angel to Angelus. There's a show called Counterpart where JK Simmons plays 2 characters. Despite them looking identical, you can instantly tell which of the characters he's playing simply by the way he moves (one is confident, the other not so much), it's amazing.
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Orphan Black was great for this sort of thing.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I thought Brandon Routh's portrayal in Superman Returns was fine. I actually liked Henry Cavill as Supes in the Snyderverse, but honestly both of them were stuck with some real dogshit scripts. How about Batman talking to Bruce Wayne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCkmUS1IYI
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Again: the world needs campy Batman again.
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IIMM: It's really a shame that Princess and the Frog drags so much in the middle, because the beginning and end are a lot of fun. The setting is great too - 1920's New Orleans, except magic is real and people are just like "yeah that makes sense". It also follows the classic Disney tradition of having a great villain song, along with a classic (?) brutal villain death (he's dragged to hell along with his implied-to-be-sentient shadow while voodoo dolls and floating heads sing his own theme song back at him) Oh, another one: It has both a terrible side character (the loving firefly) and a great one (the gator who really just wants to play jazz). oldpainless posted:Also reminder that Jason Stathams cameo in Collateral is meant to be the Transporter.
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Pilchenstein posted:Orphan Black was great for this sort of thing. YES
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Sunswipe posted:How about Batman talking to Bruce Wayne: That was great. Damned if that wouldn't have been a perfect Police Squad! gag too.
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Adam West is one of the few other actors I think could have worked as the lead in Police Squad, provided he played it straight like Batman and not hamming it up like some of his later stuff. Not that there's anything neccessarily wrong with hamming it up, it just wouldn't work for Police Squad.
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Sunswipe posted:Adam West is one of the few other actors I think could have worked as the lead in Police Squad, provided he played it straight like Batman and not hamming it up like some of his later stuff. Not that there's anything neccessarily wrong with hamming it up, it just wouldn't work for Police Squad. West did this in the pilot for Lookwell (1991), which is pretty good: https://youtu.be/IraqNhvvpUU
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Zero_Grade posted:IIMM: It's really a shame that Princess and the Frog drags so much in the middle, because the beginning and end are a lot of fun. The setting is great too - 1920's New Orleans, except magic is real and people are just like "yeah that makes sense". It also follows the classic Disney tradition of having a great villain song, along with a classic (?) brutal villain death (he's dragged to hell along with his implied-to-be-sentient shadow while voodoo dolls and floating heads sing his own theme song back at him) Nah it's actually fine and Ray isn't even that bad.
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