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1clareborn
Août 28, 2007, 5:33 pm

Here's a completely impromptu top five from me:

1. Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.
2. David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
3. Joan Hickson as Miss Jane Marple.
4. Jennifer Ehle as Miss Elizabeth Bennet.
5. Colin Firth as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

2readafew
Août 28, 2007, 5:45 pm

1. Alan Rickman as Professor Snape
2. Maggy Smith as Professor McGonagall
3. Kenneth Branagh as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart
4-5 James Phelps as Fred Weasley
Oliver Phelps as George Weasley

3clareborn
Août 28, 2007, 5:48 pm

readafew:

1. - Definitely on my top five of all-time bests!
2., 4., 5. - I don't have much of an opinion on these, except that it's always nice to see Maggy Smith.
3. - Really? I hated him so much! He goes on my worst casting list.

4readafew
Août 28, 2007, 5:56 pm

Kenneth Branagh as Professor Gilderoy Lockhart -

didn't like the character but I thought he did an excellent job portraying Lockhart, pretty much how I envisioned him.

5clareborn
Août 28, 2007, 6:01 pm

I viewed him as young and pretty, with a thin, weak face, and gorgeous locks of blonde hair. Like a very young, very blonde Julian Sands?

6inkdrinker
Août 28, 2007, 6:16 pm

It's not out yet and this may turn out to be wrong, but I think that casting Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter in THE GOLDEN COMPASS is perfect. It's like she'll be playing her cold bitchy self.

7KimarieBee
Août 31, 2007, 1:58 am

1. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
2. Orlando Bloom as Legolas
3. Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf
4. Sean Bean as Boromir
5. Andy Serkis as Gollum

8clareborn
Sep 2, 2007, 7:31 am

Yes, the LotR casting was generally good, wasn't it? Is it Liv Tyler as Arwen that everyone is so miffed about? Who would have been a good choice?

(I've never been a huge fan of the books, so I'll leave the decision up to the real experts and purists.)

9dancerinthedark
Modifié : Sep 2, 2007, 9:52 pm

The ensemble of actors in Atonement is perfect.

I didn't mind Liv Tyler as Arwen UNTIL I saw the special edition DVD. In the featurette interviews, she sounded so dumb, and she obviously hasn't read the book.

10Editrixie
Sep 2, 2007, 11:16 pm

Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy.

11flissp
Mar 6, 2008, 8:54 pm

1) Alan Rickman as Professor Snape (absolutely! He should NEVER play romantic leads, but he's great at villans/unlikable people!)

2) Gerard Depardieu as The Count of Monte Cristo (Seriously, how? The Count of Monte Cristo is supposed to be thin, pale and insipid with being in jail for so long, which Gerard Depardieu is definitely not, but he's completely convincing!)

3) Richard Armitage as John Thornton in the BBC version of North and South (OK, so that's a little bit down to the 'Darcy factor')

4) Colin Firth in "Bridget Jones' Diary" (well, who else could you have as Mark Darcy?)

5) Anthony Andrews as the Scarlet Pimpernel, or Glen Close in Liason Dangereuse (I have to admit, I haven't yet read that last, but she's fantastic nontheless...)

...and re message no.1 I wasn't really convinced by Jenifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett - she's a bit too modern - the previous BBC version (1980's? was a lot more old fashioned, but had a much better Lizzie). Agree with the Agatha Christie characters though... Not sure about Gilderoy...

12Phantasma
Mar 17, 2008, 8:31 pm

Colin Firth as Fitzwilliam Darcy has to be the absolute best casting choice for a role.

It was one of the best adaptations of a book I've ever seen.

13Nickelini
Mar 18, 2008, 10:51 am

#12: re Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy

Yes! And he was also wonderful as Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary (a role written for him).

14stefferjo
Avr 19, 2008, 2:37 pm

#11 - What are you referring to when you say Alan Rickman should never play a romantic lead? I love him as Snape and Judge Turpin from Sweeney Todd, but I also loved him as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility.

15flissp
Avr 21, 2008, 2:09 pm

#14 - argh, sorry stefferjo! That's exactly the one that winds me up - I find him truly slimy (he leers at Marianne!) and miscast as Colonel Brandon - I love Sense and Sensibility - generally, I thought that this was a fantastic adaptation, the biggest exception being Alan Rickman (who I agree is normally a great actor)!

16Kegsoccer
Avr 21, 2008, 2:22 pm

Haha I totally disagree. Rickman's portraying a man who is enthralled with this beautiful, musical creature (Marianne). He's utterly devoted to her and it shows, and I always want to throttle her for ignoring him in favor of Willoughby! But to each his own :)

17QueenOfDenmark
Modifié : Avr 21, 2008, 4:19 pm

#1 - I agree completely with your 1 & 2, it's unthinkable to me now that anyone else could fit so well into those two roles.

Mine are:

1: Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
2. Tim Curry as Pennywise the Clown in IT.
3. Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With A View.
4. Antony Hopkins as Hanibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
5. Kate Beckinsale as Flora Poste in Cold Comfort Farm.
6. Emma Watson as Pauline in Ballet Shoes (but the other two girls and what the BBC did to the story were not right at all).

18Ruth72
Modifié : Avr 28, 2008, 10:35 am

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain - they didn't look like the characters were described in the book, but they really made those parts their own - both absolutely fabulous (and deserved the Oscars which they didn't win).

19GreenieGirl
Juil 23, 2008, 7:26 pm

Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander, the Far Side of the World. He is perfect. Paul Bettany is not Stephen Maturin, but the horrid picture Patrick O'Brian paints of his beloved doctor--there is no one on earth who looks that unpleasant.

20almigwin
Modifié : Juil 27, 2008, 5:21 am

1: Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff, as Henry V in Henry V, as the nazi in marathon man, As Darcy in the Aldous Huxley adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in Hollywood in the 40's , As Max in Rebecca
2. Tony Curtis as the saxophone player using the Cary Grant accent in Some Like it Hot
3. Marilyn Monroe in everything : Some Like it Hot, The misfits, Gentlemen prefer Blondes, The Prince and the Showgirl, and singing Happy Birthday Mr. President
(No one has ever been more suggestive and what a dress!), etc.
4. Merle Oberon as Kathy in Wuthering Heights
5. Cary Grant in Bringing up Baby, Arsenic and Old lace, Notorious and Suspicion
6, Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Notorious
7. Greta Garbo as Ninotchka and Anna Christie
8. Audrey Hepburn as Natasha in War and Peace
9. Emily Watson as Jacqueline Du Pres in Hilary and Jackie
10. Elaine May as Henrietta, the confident botanist in a New Leaf
11. Denzel Washington as Malcolm x
12. Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in the Color Purple
13. Maggie Smith as Miss Brodie in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
14. Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in the Philadelphia Story
15 Moira Shearer, Leonid Massine and Anton Holbrook in the Red Shoes
I agree with the above mentioned ones, except that I loved Alan Rickman in Sense and Sensibility, and as Mr. Slope in Barchester Towers, and I never saw Ballet Shoes so I can't agree or disagree about Emily Watson.

21Prop2gether
Août 15, 2008, 6:16 pm

To cast this inquiry back a few decades:

The entire cast of The Women (which strictly speaking is a play, but okay)
Claude Rains in The Invisible Man
Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous
Freddie again with C. Aubrey Smith in Little Lord Fauntleroy
Ingrid Bergman and Robert Donat (absolutely wrong size and ethnicity, but so what) in The Inn of The Sixth Happiness

And I love Alan Rickman in Sense and Sensibility, especially since I don't find Kate Winslet particularly appealing in anything.