I was channel surfing and came across an animated flick called Cloudy, Chance of Meaballs. When I saw the lead character, I thought, “That’s Adrien Brody”, and I looked up the movie to see if he was voicing it. But I couldn’t find and connection between Adrien Brody and this movie. I should note that I saw lots of moments in the movie that were closer to Brody’s face, but these two are the closest I could find online.
Has anyone else noticed this resemblance, or similar ones?
Meh, looks like Guy Smiley to me.
Bob Parr’s boss on The Incredibles, although voiced by Wallace Shawn, looks like a short Stephen King.
Dino from The Flintstones looks like my mom.
I’ve always thought that NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon was a dead ringer for Speed Racer. My friends think I’m crazy. I wish I could find a good younger picture of Gordon. The resemblance had that separated at birth kind of creepiness then.
Also in The Incredibles, I always thought Edna looked like Linda Hunt, and was never sure if that was intentional or not.
I always thought the gov’t agent (Rick Dicker?) looked like Richard Nixon. And the personal injury lawyer who sued Mr. Incredible at the beginning, looked and sounded like Bobby Kennedy.
Of course, there’s also the oldVladimir Putin - Dobby the house elf incident…
Wolverine looks like Clint Eastwood.
Edna actually represents legendary costume designer Edith Head.
Off topic: Why is he on ugly males? He’s smoking.
I thought the villain character in Up looked like the spitting image of Kirk Douglas, to the point where I was wondering if they did that because Douglas was voicing the part. Except he wasn’t; apparently it was Christopher Plummer. The visual resemblance, minus the expected voice, distracted me throughout the whole second half of that movie.
I’ve always thought that Ian Hislop looked like Brain (from Pinky and the Brain).
I’ve also always thought that Bear in the Big Blue House and Leonard Slatkin look alike, but maybe that’s just me. The voices are similar too.
Disney animators would often base their work on real people: Snow White is the spitting image of an actress whose name I can’t remember, the kitty in Pinocchio is based on the toddler of one of the animators…
and I’d love to know whether Captain Hook is based on a relative of Willie deVille’s, because damn, I know he played it up, but the similarity is uncanny.
John Culhane, reporting for the New York Times interviewed the animators at Disney when they were doing The Rescuers, and found that he himself inspired the image of Mr. Snoops, the villainess’ henchman (and not Joe Flynn, who voiced the part). A sidebar to the article that was written about the film pointed this out.
Ooh - good one. Me too. I was really surprised when it *wasn’t *Kirk Douglas.
I thought there was a resemblence to Ed Asner, probably because of the eyebrows.
It was Bruce Forsyth for me.
I always thought that Fiona in Shrek looks exactly like Oprah Winfrey, while in ogre form. Maybe it’s just the roundness of the face. Weird.
Shrek was based physically on Chris Farley who was originally slated for the role and had started recording for it. Then he, you know, died.
