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Post by meiju on Nov 28, 2006 9:56:39 GMT
Hmmm, let's see
From classics I would love to see Rufus as Brick (the Paul Newman role) in the "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" - ok, he's not southern or even american, but otherwise that would be great with Scarlet Johansson as Maggie the Cat.
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Post by meiju on Nov 28, 2006 10:23:43 GMT
I still think we haven't seen Wuthering Heights yet.. I'd like to see someone like Jane Campion direct Rufus in it.. I think she'd get a powerful performance out of him .. I'd have to agree with that, although I suppose he would not do it. Anyway it would be so wonderful to get a really superb Wuthering Heights film. At the moment i think Kate Bush song is still the best adaptation of it, no film reaches the atmosphere so well. |
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Post by pendarim on Nov 28, 2006 18:51:08 GMT
I know it's a difficult film to watch, but I'd like to see Rufus play Archer in either version of Scum. Ray Winstone is one of my favorite actors, btw.
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Post by fee on Nov 29, 2006 10:31:46 GMT
Some like it hot, with Rufus as Joe, oooh, I'd pay good money to see that!
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Post by Shecreature on Nov 29, 2006 10:54:52 GMT
Some like it hot, with Rufus as Joe, oooh, I'd pay good money to see that! They'd have to dig up Marilyn though.. no one could replace her in that film..  |
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Post by sevensisters on Dec 6, 2006 18:01:07 GMT
Rufus as Mr. Darcy (the recent one) I read somewhere that Rufus had played Darcy on stage, but I haven't heard any of you mention it. Is that right, did he play in the role? He would be perfect! Right age, right look, right voice, right....well, you get the idea. Of course, I loved Colin Firth in the role, too (if it's not heresy to mention that - just being fair!) |
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Post by mcr5137 on Dec 6, 2006 22:45:59 GMT
I love the idea of Rufus as Mr. Darcy!
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Post by sevensisters on Dec 9, 2006 15:46:41 GMT
Do you remember a television mini-series called The Thornbirds, taken from the book of the same name? Okay, it's not great literature, but can't you just see Rufus as Father Ralph de Bricassart? All that intensity and driving ambition and suppressed sexuality. And tenderness, too. A great range of emotions, what Rufus does so well. And he'd be very handsome in a cassock, as well. Beautiful settings, in Australia and the Vatican. Of course, it was well-played by Richard Chamberlain but with Rufus I think it would be even better!
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Post by mcr5137 on Dec 9, 2006 17:03:54 GMT
OOoooo, I never thought of that...........great choice, 7! He would be great in that role!
I also would like to see Ruf do "AHnold's" role in Terminator......that is one of those things I can't see him doing at all, so I'd like to see him be the bad one in Terminator 1 and the good one in Terminator 2.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 9, 2006 20:41:07 GMT
Do you remember a television mini-series called The Thornbirds, taken from the book of the same name? Okay, it's not great literature, but can't you just see Rufus as Father Ralph de Bricassart? Yes, yes, yes!!! You know, I nearly suggested that myself when this thread began, but the mini-series was so cheesy and awful, I thought everyone would laugh! When I read the book (ages before it was filmed) I was blown away with the intensity of the story. It was the first - and, actually, only - book that I sat up through the night to finish. I remember vividly reading the last 70 pages through floods of tears! I can't even begin tell you how massively disappointed I was at the casting - Chamberlain as Father ralph was bad enough (he's a good actor, but not good enough for this role), and as for Rachel Ward as Meggie...totally, totally wrong. Rufus in this would be absolutely perfect casting. I doubt if he'd do a remake, but if he did...  ! |
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Post by sevensisters on Dec 10, 2006 4:31:50 GMT
Do you remember a television mini-series called The Thornbirds, taken from the book of the same name? Okay, it's not great literature, but can't you just see Rufus as Father Ralph de Bricassart? Yes, yes, yes!!! You know, I nearly suggested that myself when this thread began, but the mini-series was so cheesy and awful, I thought everyone would laugh! Rufus in this would be absolutely perfect casting. I doubt if he'd do a remake, but if he did... ! LOL! Great minds think alike! I hesitated to post this for the same reasons. But with Rufus in the role.... ! (as you say.) |
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Dec 10, 2006 12:06:33 GMT
Hey, 7Sis!! ;D
Think I might have to read this again, over the Christmas holidays.
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Post by sevensisters on Dec 11, 2006 3:35:29 GMT
Hey, 7Sis!! ;D Think I might have to read this again, over the Christmas holidays. It's been years since I read it, but I really liked it. They made a sequel to the mini-series, I remember, but it was so awful I couldn't watch it. I can't remember if the sequel was part of the original book or just something they made up, though. Enjoy your reading! |
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Post by ree on Dec 22, 2006 4:36:14 GMT
O.K. I may be totally alone in this...but I couldn't help thinking that Rufus would have been much better than Johnny Depp in his Pirate movies, and I like Depp.
I just think Rufus would have been funnier. And I couldn't understand why Depp played him as being constantly inebriated. The stagger, the slur, that's how it came across to me anyway.
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Post by GreenEyesToo on Jan 12, 2007 1:09:22 GMT
Many, many moons ago I saw the film "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", which was so beautiful it haunted me for weeks afterwards.
Here's the Amazon.com video review: "This quiet, sentimental 1968 drama based on the Carson McCullers novel is considered a classic contemporary coming-of-age film about alienation and love. Alan Arkin (The In-Laws) stars as a kind, but lonely deaf-mute who befriends a lonely teenage girl in his boarding house. Set in the deep South, the film depicts a wistful small-town life with an undercurrent of turmoil and intolerance. It features a standout performance by Arkin and the debut of Sondra Locke (Bronco Billy, Sudden Impact) as two fundamentally lonely people who find solace in themselves as they reach out to each other. --Robert Lane"
I know it sounds a bit downbeat, but it was ultimately a hugely uplifting story (and I never did read the book - another one for the list), and Rufus would be great in the Arkin role, John Singer. They don't mention it in the review, but I felt the most important relationship in the film was that of Singer and his fellow deaf-mute whom he had to protect and look out for because the friend just couldn't cope with the isolation - they had the most touching a beautiful scenes in the film. Oh, how I blubbed...
Yes, I know we'd be deprived of Rufe's lovely voice, but his face is so expressive anyway, just think what he could do with a role like this?
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