# Just when did Harrison Ford become a walking manniquen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048 "2001-10-23T09:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/1 "2001-10-23T09:52:28Z")
Remember the cocky, twitchy bastard of _American Graffiti [i/] and \* Star Wars_? Now watch his flicks today. So when exactly did golden boy become the actor with a permanent rod up his ass? \*The man doesn’t move. \* ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/2 "2001-10-23T10:22:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bossk \* > \*\*Remember the cocky, twitchy bastard of _American Graffiti [i/] and \* Star Wars_? > > Now watch his flicks today. So when exactly did golden boy become the actor with a permanent rod up his ass? > > \*The man doesn’t move. \* \*\* He changed. He’s said in past interviews that characters like Han Solo and that guy from American Graffiti just don’t interest him these days. The last movie I saw him in was “What Lies Beneath” or something like that. I didn’t think the movie nor his performance was all that great. Marc ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/3 "2001-10-23T12:49:42Z")
Hmmmm, one of my favorite actors. I haven’t noticed the change. He still looks as good to me as ever. I guess he’s like any other actor, some films he does good in, some not so good. But then, don’t they all. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/4 "2001-10-23T12:55:55Z")
[Harrison Ford](http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2080/ford.html) is in, but I especially liked “The Fugitive.” He didn’t seem to be a mannequin in that, but then, I think that was made in '93. Are you talking about movies much more recent than that? ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/5 "2001-10-23T16:15:31Z")
I don’t know what happened either. I was severly disappointed in his performance in **Return of the Jedi** , where he really lost the edge he had in the first two movies. In #3, his Han Solo seemd to be a pudgy, whining, putz-loser. Perhaps that was an indication that Ford was losing interest in the “bad-boy” type he was so good at playing. It also coincides a transition to the more respectable Jack Crawford character type, who is part of the government, rather than a rebel and forced into doing unconventional things, rather than being unconventional in himself. ---
**Author:** ![Sumac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Sumac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sumac)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/6 "2001-10-23T16:26:23Z")
Here, here. Where’s that irascible rogue we all love?! ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/7 "2001-10-23T16:37:26Z")
There are some actors, like Clint Eastwood, for whom less is more. For Harrison Ford, on the other hand, less is less. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/8 "2001-10-23T17:31:44Z")
I consider Blade Runner (1982\*) the turning point in Ford’s career. That’s when he decided that he knew better than the writers or director what his character was really like and how the movie should end. I.e., when he went from being an actor to a star. And since star’s don’t have to act… \*After SW V and IJ I and before SW VI and IJ II. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/9 "2001-10-23T19:49:15Z")
You guys are just jealous, he’s so hot! And I don’t say that about just anybody who as old as my dad! He gets different roles now, because of his age. No casting agent would think of him in a _Graffiti_-type role today, he just doesn’t fit it anymore. He was funny and sexy in _Six Days, Seven Nights_. Not great theatre or anything, just plain old entertainment with a great looking male lead. Most actors seek out different roles as they age, because they don’t want to become charicatures of themselves, like Pacino seems to have become. He’s all about the wild eyes, messy hair and manic outbursts. Didn’t that get tired about 10 years ago, Al? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/10 "2001-10-23T19:52:11Z")
One more thing- if they do make _Indiana Jones_ part 4, I will gladly shell out my $7.50 to see Harrison Ford and Sean Connery on the same big screen. Oh my yes. ---
**Author:** ![Winkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Winkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winkie)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/11 "2001-10-24T01:09:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*One more thing- if they do make _Indiana Jones_ part 4, I will gladly shell out my $7.50 to see Harrison Ford and Sean Connery on the same big screen. > > Oh my yes. \*\* Yep, me too. Probably more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/12 "2001-10-24T01:13:56Z")
I trace it back to _Regarding Henry_. I knew he shouldn’t have used the Method to play a guy with brain damage. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/13 "2001-10-24T01:14:32Z")
Somebody should tell him that haircut looks like a muskrat’s butt in a rainstorm. ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/14 "2001-10-24T01:25:55Z")
IIRC correctly, Ford said in an interview that unless Indiana Jones 4 was titled “Indiana Jones and the Comfortable Chair” he wasn’t going to be doing another one. ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/15 "2001-10-24T05:20:13Z")
Come to think of it, seeing Indy trying to steal the Comfy Chair from clutches of the nefarious Spanish Inquisition would make a pretty good flick. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/16 "2001-10-24T20:09:26Z")
Obligatory link: [Harrison Ford’s Finger](http://www.apartment42.com/fingergallery.htm). Trust me, just go. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/17 "2001-10-24T22:41:24Z")
Dammit **Cervaise** , the tears are running down my cheeks! That was hysterical! Thank God I wasn’t drinking anything! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/18 "2001-10-24T23:58:44Z")
Yo, EJsGirl, We’re not discussing whether Ford is a good looking manniquin, but when he became a (good looking or otherwise) manniquin. The link from Cervaise reminded me of one of Ford’s really stiff performances: Sabrina. Egad, Kinnear was just playing around and got better reviews than Ford. Disclaimer: I am not anti manniquin. I respect manniquins, some of my best friends are manniquins, and yes I would let my sister date one. I just wouldn’t cast one in a lead role. ---
**Author:** ![SolomonGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SolomonGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolomonGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/19 "2001-10-25T01:27:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\*One more thing- if they do make _Indiana Jones_ part 4, I will gladly shell out my $7.50 to see Harrison Ford and Sean Connery on the same big screen. > > Oh my yes. \*\* Although at this point it would resemble _Cocoon_ more than any of the other Indiana Jones movies. 'Cause they’re both so old. _ **Get it?!?** _ ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-did-harrison-ford-become-a-walking-manniquen/89048/20 "2001-10-25T03:01:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bossk \* > \*\*Remember the cocky, twitchy bastard of _American Graffiti [i/] and \* Star Wars_? > > Now watch his flicks today. So when exactly did golden boy become the actor with a permanent rod up his ass? > > \*The man doesn’t move. \* \*\* Dude! The guy was frozen in **Carbonite**! What do you expect?