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(Oliver Stone had originally hired him as a consultant for FMJ but thought his demonstration was so incredible he decided to cast Ermy as Sgt. Hartmann instead).
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Stanley Kubrick, I mean. Oliver Stone had nothing to do with Full Metal Jacket.
Of course, maybe that’s exactly what they want you to believe.
Private Pyle…Full Metal Jacket
John Coffey…Green Mile
Percy Wetmore…Green Mile
Delacroix…Green Mile
Heck, there are loads from the Green Mile I have not seen in other films
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I know rather a lot of people who cannot think of Rowan Atkinson as anything except Mr. Bean, which is very disturbing…
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Yeah, when his work on the Blackadder series was so much better. Except maybe the first one. That one had too much of Bean in him.
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So you don’t know the way to France either?
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No, we’ll just do what I usually do. Sail 'round and 'round the Isle of Wight until everyone gets dizzy, then head for home.
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Private Pyle…Full Metal Jacket
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I think you have this a bit backwards. Vincent D’Onofrio had 3 roles in TV and movies before FMJ, and 54 roles since, including big roles in major movie blockbusters (Men in Black) and 6+ years as the lead in a Law and Order franchise.
That’s not killing your career, that’s getting a career other actors would kill for. You may only remember him as Pyle, but it certainly hasn’t prevented him from getting work.
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Delacroix…Green Mile
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Delacroix was played by Michael Jeter. He died a few years after Green Mile, so maybe it did kill his career. In any case, that film came at the end of an extremely successful film, TV and stage career. He was a regular cast member on the successful Evening Shade TV series with Burt Reynolds and was (to me at least) unforgettable in The Fisher King.
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I think you have this a bit backwards. Vincent D’Onofrio had 3 roles in TV and movies before FMJ, and 54 roles since, including big roles in major movie blockbusters (Men in Black) and 6+ years as the lead in a Law and Order franchise.
That’s not killing your career, that’s getting a career other actors would kill for. You may only remember him as Pyle, but it certainly hasn’t prevented him from getting work.
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Just goes to show how (un)observant I am. I remember him now in MiB
What about the guy who played John Coffey…like the drink but not spelt the same
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Just goes to show how (un)observant I am. I remember him now in MiB
What about the guy who played John Coffey…like the drink but not spelt the same
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In his case, I’d have to say Green Mile was his breakout role. Up until then, his imdb listings are almost all “Bouncer” “Guard” “Bodyguard” “Huge Guard” and “Inmate”. After that film, it’s almost all name roles, plus a lot of voice work. Very few starring roles (though he was a villain in Daredevil and Sin City), but much better than he’d been doing before.
And you didn’t ask, but Doug Hutchinson, who played Percy Wetmore, has been doing the same kind of roles (usually supporting film character or a starring role for one or two episode of a series) since Green Mile as he was before (if you’re into X-Files, he was Eugene Tooms from the first season), so while that film may be his high water mark, it doesn’t seem to have changed his career for better or worse.
(ETA) And I don’t mean to be picking on you, you just happened to choose a group of actors I really like.
Hey you got me wrong man, all those actors I listed I like as well.
Has to be said tho’, I thought Percy Wetmore deserved a good slap.
and finally…whatever happened to Mr Jingles?