Movie Marathon (Part 2)

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Movies in which a character is portrayed as of a different race or ethnicity than in the source material

  1. Doctor Strange - the Ancient One went from being a Tibetan man to a Celtic woman
  2. The Shawshank Redemption - white Irish guy Red was played by Morgan Freeman in the movie.
  3. Starship Troopers - Johnnie Rico goes from Pilipino to Casper Van Dien
  4. Thor - Heimdall goes from Nordic white to Idris Elba.
  5. Fantastic Four - White, blonde Johnny Storm is played by Michael P. Jordan
  6. Field of Dreams – Real-life reclusive author J. D. Salinger became fictional black reclusive author Terence Mann.
  7. Romeo + Juliet – Mercutio goes from white to black as played by Harold Perrineau
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Movies in which a character is portrayed as of a different race or ethnicity than in the source material

  1. Doctor Strange - the Ancient One went from being a Tibetan man to a Celtic woman
  2. The Shawshank Redemption - white Irish guy Red was played by Morgan Freeman in the movie.
  3. Starship Troopers - Johnnie Rico goes from Pilipino to Casper Van Dien
  4. Thor - Heimdall goes from Nordic white to Idris Elba.
  5. Fantastic Four - White, blonde Johnny Storm is played by Michael P. Jordan
  6. Field of Dreams – Real-life reclusive author J. D. Salinger became fictional black reclusive author Terence Mann.
  7. Romeo + Juliet – Mercutio goes from white to black as played by Harold Perrineau
  8. The Wiz - All white cast in the 1939 film (and presumably the original book) to an all African-American cast
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Movies in which a character is portrayed as of a different race or ethnicity than in the source material

  1. Doctor Strange - the Ancient One went from being a Tibetan man to a Celtic woman
  2. The Shawshank Redemption - white Irish guy Red was played by Morgan Freeman in the movie.
  3. Starship Troopers - Johnnie Rico goes from Pilipino to Casper Van Dien
  4. Thor - Heimdall goes from Nordic white to Idris Elba.
  5. Fantastic Four - White, blonde Johnny Storm is played by Michael P. Jordan
  6. Field of Dreams – Real-life reclusive author J. D. Salinger became fictional black reclusive author Terence Mann.
  7. Romeo + Juliet – Mercutio goes from white to black as played by Harold Perrineau
  8. The Wiz - All white cast in the 1939 film (and presumably the original book) to an all African-American cast
  9. The Martian - two Asian-American characters from the book were played by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mackenzie Davis in the movie
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Movies in which a character is portrayed as of a different race or ethnicity than in the source material

  1. Doctor Strange - the Ancient One went from being a Tibetan man to a Celtic woman
  2. The Shawshank Redemption - white Irish guy Red was played by Morgan Freeman in the movie.
  3. Starship Troopers - Johnnie Rico goes from Pilipino to Casper Van Dien
  4. Thor - Heimdall goes from Nordic white to Idris Elba.
  5. Fantastic Four - White, blonde Johnny Storm is played by Michael P. Jordan
  6. Field of Dreams – Real-life reclusive author J. D. Salinger became fictional black reclusive author Terence Mann.
  7. Romeo + Juliet – Mercutio goes from white to black as played by Harold Perrineau
  8. The Wiz - All white cast in the 1939 film (and presumably the original book) to an all African-American cast
  9. The Martian - two Asian-American characters from the book were played by Chiwetel Ejiofor and Mackenzie Davis in the movie
  10. Othello - with Sir Lawrence Olivier as the Moor of Venice.

I started this one, so Pass.

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Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)

-“BB”-

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Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
247

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
248

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
249

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
250

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Bolt (2008)
251

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Bolt (2008)
  7. Cujo (1983)
252

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Bolt (2008)
  7. Cujo (1983)
  8. Paddington (2014)
253

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Bolt (2008)
  7. Cujo (1983)
  8. Paddington (2014)
  9. Flipper (1963, 1996)
254

Animal Movies With One-Word Titles
(and the Title is the Given Name of the Animal Character)

  1. Benji (1974)
  2. Balto (1995)
  3. Lassie (1994, 2005)
  4. Babe (1995)
  5. Bambi (1942)
  6. Bolt (2008)
  7. Cujo (1983)
  8. Paddington (2014)
  9. Flipper (1963, 1996)
  10. Jaws (1975)

Although the shark’s nickname on set was Bruce—named after Spielberg’s lawyer)

Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
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The kid from Dick Tracy is now a law professor in Cleveland, as it happens: https://thedaily.case.edu/5-questions-withformer-child-actor-and-assistant-professor-of-law-charlie-korsmo/

Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
256

Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
257

Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
258

Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959) …(is a hyphenated name one or two words?)

-“BB”-

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Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
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Movies with one or two word titles where the title is the name of the protagonist

  1. Dick Tracy (1990)
  2. Robin Hood (2010)
  3. Doctor Strange (2016)
  4. Shirley Valentine (1989)
  5. Ben-Hur (1959)
  6. Erin Brockovich (2000)
  7. Major Payne (1995)