QUOTE (barend @ Jun 27 2005, 06:48 PM)
David prowse played a body guard to two rich guys...
clockwork orange, and in the BBCs 'hitch hickers guide to the galaxy' as 'hot black's' (rock star lead singer of 'disaster area' who was spending the year dead for tax reasons) body guard...
Ian McDairmid was the butler of a conman in 'dirty rotten scoundrels' and part of a conspiracy in sleepy hollow... deception seems to be his game.
Liam Neeson and slave liberation... no stretch there...
but he's played characters all across the board, but he's usually some kind of hero...
Christopher Lee - Dracula
Okay, so he can play a count! But he's played hundreds of other characters, and not just those two and Sarumon in LOTR. He's going to play King Hagard in the live-action version of "The Last Unicorn" as well.
My point was that few of these people are type-cast (though Star Wars may have ruined Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil). Hayden played a punk kid in "Life as a House."
Saying Mace Windu is a "bad mother f***er" is completely unjustified until AOTC. Even then it's questionable. He just kills one bounty hunter with no force powers and says "this party's over" and "I don't think so." He's not Jules from Pulp Fiction, he's not Shaft. He's a Jedi! Yet everyone EXPECTED him to be a badass Negotiator type just because of his past roles.
Did these folks see him in "Unbreakable"? Or Die Hard III? Maybe Jurassic Park? Or anything else he's been besides these 2 (or 3) movies and the PT?
Nope, it'd be like everytime you see Sean Connery in a movie going "Heh.. look it's James Bond, I wonder if he'll order a martini shaken not stirred?" Funny once sure, but not a logical assumption.
This post has been edited by KurganX: 28 June 2005 - 10:57 AM