# actor/actress signature movie behaviors (or the Tom Hanks peeing thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825 "2010-06-20T00:51:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/61 "2010-06-22T15:19:53Z")
Travolta also often has a dancing scene in his movies, which I suppose is understandable. Which brings to mind Uma Thurman, who seems to favor close-ups of her huge-ass feet. ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/62 "2010-06-22T15:43:03Z")
Jennifer Jason Leigh seems to always get sexually abused in her movies. Along the same lines, I thought that Susan Sarandon had a “nudity required” clause in her films for a good stretch there in the 80’s and 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/63 "2010-06-23T03:08:39Z")
Since we’ve also started mentioning directors, all of Stanley Kubrick’s films feature a pivotal scene that takes place in a bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/64 "2010-06-24T00:38:22Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > **Tom Hanks** - Tom Hanks seems to urinate on film as much as possible. Again, off the top of my head. > > 1. Cast Away > 2. Apollo 13 > 3. The Green Mile > 4. A League of Their Own (one of the great on-screen urinations of all time) > 5. Big > 6. Forrest Gump Please to add: 7. The Money Pit ========= Scarlett Johannsen: (mouth hanging open like a big dumb fish) 1. Everything I’ve ever seen her in. Eddie Murphy: “the laugh.” You know the one I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/65 "2010-06-24T01:45:44Z")
He’s been absent as a big star for a long time, but: Andrew McCarthy with a stunned/shocked/flabergasted/just-won-the-Publishers-Clearing-House-Sweepstakes expression on his face. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/66 "2010-06-24T04:15:40Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Which brings to mind Uma Thurman, who seems to favor close-ups of her huge-ass feet. Isn’t that a Tarantino thing? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/67 "2010-06-24T04:50:54Z")
I suppose it is – Tarantino + Thurman. So maybe we can further refine the thread to combinations of a certain actor plus a certain director. Johnny Depp plus Tim Burton would probably yield another page’s worth of material. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/68 "2010-06-24T15:59:15Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I suppose it is – Tarantino + Thurman. > > So maybe we can further refine the thread to combinations of a certain actor plus a certain director. Johnny Depp plus Tim Burton would probably yield another page’s worth of material. A few weeks ago The Onion reported that Tim Burton traded Johnny Depp to Ridley Scott for Russell Crowe. Just so you know. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/69 "2010-06-24T16:16:12Z")
Liam Neeson seems to die in a lot of the movies he is in - to the point where his ‘appearance’ in Fallout 3 made me say “so, when is daddy gonna die?” Oddly enough, I think he survived in a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/70 "2010-06-24T16:31:23Z")
I’m trying to figure out if the Jeff Goldblum I’m-a-sexy-hairy-nerd-trying-to-look-intense stare is just part of him as a person or what he does as an actor. I think it might be the latter, but it’s by turns freaky, annoying and silly. Particularly since he is not and never was sexy and when he’s attempting to look intense, he looks constipated. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/71 "2010-06-24T16:31:54Z")
Another Kubrick signature scene: He loved long static shots, with the entire scene in focus from deep to shallow depth. The action would start at the further end from the camera and move to the closer, shallow end. Like in _Clockwork Orange_, with David Prowse carrying the writer in his wheelchair from the far end of the room to the near end. Like _The Shining_, in that weird bathroom, with Jack Nicholson and the bartender starting in the far end and approaching closer to the camera, always staying in perfect focus. Sometimes he’d alter the nature of this scenario, and have something seemingly happening in the foreground while the source of tension in the scene was in the background. Reference Dave and Frank conversing about unplugging Hal while Hal’s unwinking eye stares, directly centered, at them in _2001_. Or Spartacus and his assigned combatant regarding each other while between them in the background, screened, are gladiators murdering each other. (The last two scenes are very similar.) There was no one like Kubrick for eerie tension, just from the way a scene was filmed. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/72 "2010-06-24T16:36:11Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > **Tom Hanks** - Tom Hanks seems to urinate on film as much as possible. Again, off the top of my head. > > 1. Cast Away > 2. Apollo 13 > 3. The Green Mile > 4. A League of Their Own (one of the great on-screen urinations of all time) > 5. Big > 6. Forrest Gump I just saw _Cast Away_ a few days ago. When does Tom Hanks’ character urinate on-screen? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/73 "2010-06-24T17:47:21Z")
Two from Lord of the Rings: Ian McKellen (Gandalf) winks in all 3 movies. And Sean Bean tries to work the word “sharp” into his dialog, as a shout-out to his breakthrough role as Richard Sharpe. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/74 "2010-06-24T18:27:50Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I just saw _Cast Away_ a few days ago. When does Tom Hanks’ character urinate on-screen? The first or second night he is on the island. He gets up while it is still dark and pees in the ocean. While is is concentrating on doing his business, there is a blinking light on the horizon. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/75 "2010-06-24T20:57:10Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Hugh Grant - excessive eye blinking. Yes, but what about his movies? ---
**Author:** ![mathews78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@mathews78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mathews78)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/76 "2010-06-24T23:42:21Z")
It’s tv and not movies, and only in 2 series I have seen, but Bryan Cranston sure seems to like to strip down to his undies. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/77 "2010-06-24T23:48:28Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > I just saw _Cast Away_ a few days ago. When does Tom Hanks’ character urinate on-screen? If you saw it on TV, they probably cut it out. I was really shocked when the tv version of Terminator cut Arnie’s bare butt scene. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/78 "2010-06-24T23:54:19Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > If you saw it on TV, they probably cut it out. I was really shocked when the tv version of Terminator cut Arnie’s bare butt scene. Imagine how shocked I was as a teenager when I saw the uncut version of _Fast Times at Ridgmont High_. Ahhh, forget you, you farging iceholes. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/79 "2010-06-24T23:55:22Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > Michael Biehn dies alot - > > Terminator, the Abyss, Aliens, the Rock, Tombstone, Grindhouse etc. checking Wiki, it also says that “In every James Cameron movie Michael appears in, his character is bitten on the hand by another character.” i don’t recall any of that, except for Aliens where Newt bit him, anyone know? Biehn’s character does NOT die in Aliens. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825/80 "2010-06-25T00:24:30Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Biehn’s character does NOT die in Aliens. But, he does die in Alien^3. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-actress-signature-movie-behaviors-or-the-tom-hanks-peeing-thread/543825.md?page=5)