Don’t you mean, “Aw, heyyyllllll naww!”
Aw, maynnnn, where’d you get the keyboard with built-in Ebonics?
Christopher Walken always tries to too.
CMC fnord!
Michelle Rodriguez always scowls at some point.
Am I the first person to mention that Keanu Reeves says “whoa” in a lot of his movies?
When does she NOT scowl?
Harrison Ford and his “finger of doom”.
Yeah, the Clooney Bobblehead; I used to notice that too. I think Soderberg beat it out of him - the first time I saw him move his head properly was in Out of Sight, and by Ocean’s 11 it was completely gone.
Michael Douglas always plays businessmen or lawyers or cops or rich guys of some kind.
As do most male movie stars over a certain age.
Yeah, but he seems to have practically made a career of it. Just off the top of my head (in no particular order):
Wallstreet: businessman
Black Rain: cop
Basic Instict: cop (I think)
War of the Roses: lawyer
Fatal Attraction: lawyer
Disclosure: businessman
Streets of SF: cop
A Perfect Murder: rich guy
Can you think of anyone else who, for practically their whole career, has played roles like that? Others may do so when they retire from being action stars, but that’s all he’s been doing, it seems.
but that’s a casting (or typecasting) issue, not a signature movie “behavior.”
Hmmm…ok
ETA: Ok, I see: an actual physical behavior. Hmmm, let me see what I can find.
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?
Sarah Connor bit him on the hand when trying to escape from him in Terminator.
There’s a video somewhere of how Michael Ironside keeps getting his arm amputated. The link was broken at imdb when I tried to get there.
My friend doesn’t like Tom Cruise because he’s always the “young hotshot.” The only exception I think is Born on the 4th of July.
Denzel Washington seems to love the “heroic death” recently.
Keanu Reeves tends to be cast as the “expert who has no clue what’s reallygoing on”:
Matrix, Johnny Mnemonic, Chain Reaction: Hacker/Computer expert
Point Break: FBI/Quarterback
Speed: Bomb Expert (at least in this one he admitted he was too dumb)
The Lake House: Architect
Albeit due to many sequels, I think Neve Campbell single-handedly created the trope about brunettes being the only one to survive horror movies.
Harrison Ford should have the right cross renamed in his honor.
A lesser known calling card of Hitchcock is the staircase scene: a scene – often a pivotal one of the movie – that’s shot on a staircase. Some include (spoilers):
- The 39 Steps – Pamela learns the Hannay is telling the truth when she’s standing at the top of a staircase.
- Suspicion – the “poisoned (?) glass of milk” scene involves carrying it up a flight of stairs.
- Shadow of a Doubt – On murder attempt by sawing through a stair; later, the scene where Uncle Charlie suddenly decides to leave.
- Notorious – the final scene.
- Strangers on a Train – When Guy tries to hold up his part of the bargain.
- Vertigo – the bell tower.
- Psycho – the second murder
- Frenzy – the slow tracking shot when the murder is being committed.
- Family Plot – the final scene.
There are others. When Truffaut pointed this out to Hitchcock, he said, “Stairs are very photogenic.”
Jennifer Connelly likes to stand on the end of a pier and stare out at the sea.
I don’t see a trend here.
Especially, if you don’t include his other roles such as Romancing the Stone/Jewel of the Nile, Falling Down, Wonder Boys, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, Coma, etc…
Now if you noticed he’s always an arrogant, know-it-all, womanizing prick. That, I can see!
Kevin Costner always speaks in an irritating squeaky voice, and always in an American accent even if he’s playing an Englishman in the Middle Ages.
Oh sorry thats not what you meant was it…