# If (\_\_\_) really looked like (\_\_\_), sign me up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-___-really-looked-like-___-sign-me-up/377855 "2006-10-25T17:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-___-really-looked-like-___-sign-me-up/377855/1 "2006-10-25T17:06:13Z")
(I did a search, but I don’t think we’ve done this before. My apologies if my inferior search-fu missed something) Okay, so I can’t be the only one who has those movie moments where the actor portraying a character wins me over despite all my natural tendencies. For example, no one I can think of would give [Max Schreck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/) the time of day if dawn was 3 minutes hence, but if [Frank Langella](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079073/) (or possibly even Christopher Lee) came tapping on the window they’d fall all over themselves to let him in. So, who are you “converting” for? Include a link if possible. Here are two of mine to get us started: If Jesus really looked like [Willem DaFoe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/), sign me up for a baptism! Conversely, if Satan really looked like [Gabriel Byrne](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146675/), I’d be okay with bearing the AntiChrist. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-___-really-looked-like-___-sign-me-up/377855/2 "2006-10-25T17:52:45Z")
[QUOTE=bobkitty] no one I can think of would give [Max Schreck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/) the time of day … If Jesus really looked like [Willem DaFoe](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/), sign me up for a baptism! [/QUOTE] Would you change your mind about Max Schreck if he really looked like [Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck](http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0189998/3.html?seq=3)? Probably not, actually… 🙂 ---
**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:** [October 25, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-___-really-looked-like-___-sign-me-up/377855/3 "2006-10-25T18:10:26Z")
Actually, while not incredibly hansome, Max Schrek wasn’t all thatr ugly, when he wasn’t made up as Count Orlock. There seems to be a persistent rumor that he hasn’t been photographed outside of his “Nosferatu” makeup, but it ain’t true – he made quite a few movies. There’s a still of the un-made-up Schrek in David Sklar’s **Hollywood Gothic** and a different picture of him in Sklar’s **V is for Vampire**. Odd fact – Sklar has researched the matter, and treports in the latter book that not only does “nosferatu” mean “the Undead” or “Vampire” in some Slavic tongue, the word _does not even exist_ prior to the reference work Stoker used in researching Dracula. Sklar thinks that the guy who first claimed the word meant “vampire” may have mistaken a Catrpathian word meaning something else entirely. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-___-really-looked-like-___-sign-me-up/377855/4 "2006-10-25T19:24:26Z")
[QUOTE=awldune] Probably not, actually… 🙂 [/QUOTE] Mmmm.. no. 🙂 While I’m sure that Max wasn’t beaten with the ugly stick, you have to admit he did make a pretty ugly Dracula. And Bela was.. too over the top and creepy. No, I likes me some Langella Dracula.