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Post by anyother on Nov 22, 2011 17:08:25 GMT
"The Heaven Tree ." "The Scarlet Seed" and "The Green Branch" by Edith Pargeter form the trilogy. Like TPOTE it is about the building of a church but to me this is a far superior work of writing. The 'hero' is very young under twenty, and his 'opponent' is in his forties, Lord Ralf Isambard. To get back to this thread; Isambard is the part I would love to see Rufus play. Read it and see if you agree with me that this is a part Rufus would play magnificently Not quite good , not quite bad but a toweringly powerful character. I've read one of those, couldn't find the other ones, but it made a good impression - must reread that, and order the other parts for Xmas! Thanks for reminding me of these, Frannie! |
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Post by annachibi on Nov 23, 2011 0:13:21 GMT
Don't know if anybody's already said this, but a pic on the Rufus facebook group made me think he would be a great Crowley from Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I think he'd have fun with the part, too. The character has quite the tongue-in-cheek sense of humor. ;D
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Post by dovescorpio on Nov 23, 2011 1:11:40 GMT
The office is flat today so I have been reading "What part would you like Rufus to play?". Lots of things I do not know about and have appreciated everyones descriptions. Others you suggested I knew and appeal to me very much too - Christ, Claude Monet, Dylan Thomas (I would love to hear him read Under Milkwood) Edwarde de Vere (who might be the real Shakespeare), Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Heathcliffe, Joe Harman, Maxim de Winter, Mr Rochester, Phantom, Voltaire... Its been a while since I last saw Some Like it Hot but if there is debate as to which he could play best, then could it be a film where he could play both leads? I love a film with a great actor playing more than one main character - am thinking Nic Cage in Adaptation (2002). Some more ideas... On the BBC News today, they are saying that Julie Delpy is directing a biopic of the frontman for the Clash. She is interesting would watch anything she did. Found her '2 days in Paris' hilarious. Plus, was crazy for the Clash's London Calling when it came out (played it over and over for weeks and weeks when it came out and generally drove everyone mad). Could Rufus play a wild musician from a seminal punk band, starting age 20-ish through to early death at 50? I'd love to see him give it a go. Not so much now there are so many of them, but I used to be a fan of Janet Evanovich books. Various friends and I would spend ages i those pre-Rufus days, trying to figure out the best actors to play the 2 fabulous men in the life of Stephanie bounty hunter. The earthy and sexy Morelli and the mysterious and sexy Ranger. Trouble was, no earthly actor looked half as good as the images inspired by the men in Janet's books. Thats what I used to think. Rufus now, he could pull off both Morelli AND Ranger. Whether he'd want to, well he probably wouldn't. No matter. I have a good imagination  |
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Post by kissmekate on Nov 23, 2011 10:14:25 GMT
Could Rufus play a wild musician from a seminal punk band, starting age 20-ish through to early death at 50? I think he could!  |
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Post by kitty on Nov 27, 2011 20:54:53 GMT
After I saw Rufus in Zen, then with his beard in TPOTE, I thought he would be great as Ulysses in The Odyssey. Then I found out that he'd already done Troy, so that would be too similar. Still think it's time for a remake. |
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Post by anglophile on Nov 27, 2011 22:08:00 GMT
No specific part in mind -- but I'd like to see him as a daddy.
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Post by lovethemanrs on Nov 27, 2011 22:25:45 GMT
No specific part in mind -- but I'd like to see him as a daddy. Now that would be really nice. But I would really like to see Rufus getting/taking a role that he really yearns for and really makes him happy and fulfilled as an actor. |
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Post by kissmekate on Nov 28, 2011 9:00:06 GMT
No specific part in mind -- but I'd like to see him as a daddy. Me too. He's so sweet with kids. |
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Post by kitty on Nov 29, 2011 23:03:59 GMT
I'll bet! He's already been a daddy several times, yeah? (not to mention in real life.) lol
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Post by anglophile on Nov 29, 2011 23:13:11 GMT
true, true -- but i'd prefer to forget the time he killed his daughter and there hasn't been much other stuff actually revealed about his fathering instincts in the movies (except the photos in tots -- and by the way, have I ever mentioned how much I love, adore, sigh over, can't get enough of ... his reaction when he finds out Kate is expecting triplets?) don't guess we really have a right to know much about his actual role as a father, but I'm having very positive thoughts about it and sending them his way, especially as his own son arrives at the age he was when his father died.
What I'd really like to see him in is a sequel to TOTS and I'd like to help write it. )So now you know the true size of my ego.)
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Post by kygal on Nov 30, 2011 11:27:33 GMT
LOL Anglophile. I still want to see him in a romantic comedy.
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Post by castaneasativa on Nov 30, 2011 16:49:29 GMT
I'd like to see him in a story that is about just family men, without women. E. g. father-and-son, or grandfather-son-grandson -- something like that. I would be interested how they live their life, facing and solving everyday questions...
I had a favourite book when I was a teenage girl. That is Dymphna Cusack's The half-burnt tree.
The main character an Australian soldier, Paul, who was burned by napalm in Vietnam. After he comes home he wants to kill himself by taking his surfboard over a bombora in a deserted beach. A divorced, embittered woman, who is living there as a post-office manager notices him. The third person is an orphan, an Aboriginal boy who is the "link" between them, beacuse they don't want to meet anybody.
I can imagine Him as Paul.
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Post by kissmekate on Dec 1, 2011 12:46:36 GMT
That sounds very interesting, Castanea!
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Post by dovescorpio on Dec 5, 2011 0:53:15 GMT
.... i'd prefer to forget the time he killed his daughter and there hasn't been much other stuff actually revealed about his fathering instincts in the movies (except the photos in tots -- and by the way, have I ever mentioned how much I love, adore, sigh over, can't get enough of ... his reaction when he finds out Kate is expecting triplets?) don't guess we really have a right to know much about his actual role as a father, but I'm having very positive thoughts about it and sending them his way, especially as his own son arrives at the age he was when his father died. Anglo it freaked me right out when i read 'killed his daughter' - such a terrible terrible thing for anyone to live with even when it fully accidental - i went into a shock and it took me a few reads to get the next bit ie it was only on a film! Relief. i love the second lift scene in TOTS, Petruchio's reactions to the triplets give the whole thing a 'happy ever after' feel, and those photos of Kate and Petruchio with the triplets at the end are classic. i've been close to men with kids and for every one of them the separation from the kids' every day life was hard hard hard. Keeping up good communication with the ex was not that easy either. I cannot help but feel it is hard for R too, and while I tell myself I cannot possibly know, its all just my projection, I do think it is full of gritty yet funny drama and he would be brilliant in such a thing. I would love to write such a thing (for him to star in, of course!!) another type of daddy film... a teenage daughter whose friends have all got a total crush on him... that would be very credible, me thinks, with lots of comedic potential - I would like to see him in comedy. |
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Post by anglophile on Dec 5, 2011 2:58:50 GMT
what a wonderfully inventive mind you have, my dear!! ;D
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They'd probably have little ingenues lining up 12 deep for several blocks if they decided to cast such a film. Go ahead and write it and at least we can all share it on fanfics and pray someone with some connection to the film world sees it. i'm amazed at how seemingly improbably approaches people take get them results they never imagined could happen.
and that's why i keep writing (although it's not the only reason) -- just on the off-chance that someone might decide rufus really needed to give my words screen life. a girl can dream, can't she?
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