# How easily a movie could differ - a new game! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2000, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838 "2000-07-17T13:55:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/21 "2000-07-19T06:53:05Z")
Ray Parkes (Darth Maul) playing Little John in just about any Robin Hood movie. Lochsley would not only get beaten but would probably get his head beaten in (and stylishly at that). What about Alicia Silverstone in Aliens. “You want me crawl through that? AS IF!!!” or instead of Get Away From Her You Bitch … “Oh puh-lease. Like taking hostages is just like SO yesterday!!” ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/22 "2000-07-19T11:01:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gilligan \* > \*\* > > A variation on the game: Same actor as in the original, but playing a role from one of his other movies. > > _Planet of the Apes_ – Charleton Heston as Moses – “Woe unto thee, Dr. Zaius, for unless you let the people go, the first born ape of each household shall die!” > \*\* “A PLANET WHERE APED EVOLVED FROM SOYLENT GREEN?” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/23 "2000-07-19T13:17:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dpr \* > **Ray Parkes (Darth Maul)** Not to mention Toad in the X-Men. I flipped when I found that out. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/24 "2000-07-19T13:53:00Z")
ROTFLMAO, especially at Gilligan’s suggestions and Jerry Lewis as Indiana Jones! William Shatner as Hamlet: “To BE, or not TO be, that IS the QUEStion!” Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in “Marathon Man”: “Is it safe?” “I just had tacos for lunch so it’s not safe at all.” Sean Penn as Spiccoli in “Dead Man Walking”: “Dude, the death penalty is, like, totally bogus!” ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/25 "2000-07-19T13:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Cynical \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by dpr \* > > **Ray Parkes (Darth Maul)** > > Not to mention Toad in the X-Men. I flipped when I found that out. \*\* I’d found out beforehand so I roared with laughter when he produced the Maul-like flourish after ‘locking’ Storm in the elevator, but only about half the cinema laughed with me. A damn good in-joke. ---
**Author:** ![RonA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@RonA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonA)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/26 "2000-07-19T14:20:20Z")
Is it true they wanted Christopher Walken to play Han Solo??? Sorry, I just can’t see it!!! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/27 "2000-07-19T14:33:52Z")
Damn! I’ve tried so hard to avoid ULs, and one finally snags me. I’ve heard the Ronald Reagan-as-Rick-Blaine story so often, and in so many respectable places, that I assumed it was true. Still an interesting image: “Well, Major Strasser, there you go again …” ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/28 "2000-07-20T00:42:10Z")
Samuel L Jackson as Rhett Butler? “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a ##&@ you &%_, $\*\*, ^#ing ho of a %#^&(_#” ---
**Author:** ![pLt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@pLt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pLt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/29 "2000-07-20T00:46:58Z")
_grin_ I knew dpr would be good at this game. How about … Sharon Stone as Danielle in Ever After … “Do you like what you see my Prince?” ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/30 "2000-07-20T01:02:39Z")
Or Matt LeBlanc as the Prince in the same movie. He gets knocked off his horse and turns to her and says “WHAT THE HE… ooh… ah, How YOU doin’?” ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/31 "2000-07-20T01:14:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dpr \* > \*\*Or Matt LeBlanc as the Prince in the same movie. > > He gets knocked off his horse and turns to her and says “WHAT THE HE… ooh… ah, How YOU doin’?” \*\* Lucky for me I’ve decided to stop consuming beverages while reading the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/32 "2000-07-20T02:58:10Z")
To get back to Charlton Heston, in Ben-Hur he was actually offered the Stephen Boyd(Messala) role first. I’d like to have seen him as the bad guy. When it was settled that he would be Judah he tried to get Chuck Connors for the bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/33 "2000-07-20T10:36:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by goboy \* > \*\*William Shatner as Hamlet: > “To BE, or not TO be, that IS the QUEStion!” > \*\* William Shatner as Julius Caesar: "I…rather tell thee…what is to be fear’d… Than…what I fear…for always…I am Shatner… Err…Caesar" –Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene ii (And god knows how he’d overreact after Brutus stabs him…) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/34 "2000-07-20T16:16:50Z")
Robert De Niro instead of George Burns in _Oh God_ “Yeah, I’m God. What the f\*\*\* do you want? You praying to me? You praying to ME?” ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/35 "2000-07-20T21:15:10Z")
_It’s a Wonderful Life_ – Rodney Dangerfield as George Bailey – “No, I ain’t jumping off this bridge, although I should, let me tell ya, my life sucks! That Potter is screwing me over! Although that’s the only screwing I’m getting lately, let me tell ya, my wife, she likes to talk to me after sex. Last night she called me from a motel! Then there’s my kid, I just got him a BB gun for Christmas, and he gets me a sweatshirt with a bullseye on it! What are you supposed to be with those wings, anyway, some kind of fairy? Oh, an _angel_, yeah, that’s different! Hey, what are you doing, stop pushing me, boy, I tell ya, I don’t get no respect, no respect at all!” _Return of the Jedi_ – Angelina Jolie as Princess Leia – Finding out that Luke is her brother only increases her romantic feelings for him. _Raising Arizona_ – Anthony Hopkins as H.I. – “I’ll be taking these Huggies, and whatever cash is in the register…and this bottle of Chianti and these fava beans…you see, I’m having a friend for dinner.” _Dogma_ – Fran Drescher as God – They wouldn’t have to explain that her voice would make a person’s head explode. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/36 "2000-07-20T22:47:28Z")
Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from _The Princess Bride_) as Luke Skywalker. “Luke, I am your father.” “Incon-_thiev_-able!” ---
**Author:** ![Falula\_Guinea\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@Falula\_Guinea\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falula_Guinea_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/37 "2000-07-21T16:12:13Z")
How about Kathy Bates’ character from Misery as Mary Poppins! Scary!! I can just imagine it - “Children - you take your oogie medicine, or your legs will never be the same!!!” (brandishing a sledghammer menacingly) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838/38 "2000-07-21T16:19:54Z")
Keanu Reeves in Young Guns: Shoot the hostage!! We don’t have a hostage Bogus!! Or to quote Robin Williams: Stallone could do Hamlet: “To be… or what” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easily-a-movie-could-differ-a-new-game/25838.md?page=1)