Movie Marathon (Part 3)

Films where more than one actor plays the same character

  1. Atonement (2007)
  2. The Return of the Jedi (1983)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. Great Expectations (1946)
  5. Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
  6. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)
  7. Titanic (1997)
  8. A League of their Own (1992)

Geena Davis played Dottie Hinson during her career with the Rockford Peaches; Lynn Cartwright played the older Dottie who returns for a league reunion.

Films where more than one actor plays the same character

  1. Atonement (2007)
  2. The Return of the Jedi (1983)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. Great Expectations (1946)
  5. Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
  6. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)
  7. Titanic (1997)
  8. A League of their Own (1992)
  9. Stand By Me (1986)

Wil Wheaton plays Gordie Lachance at age 12; Richard Dreyfuss plays Gordie as an adult.

  1. Atonement (2007)
  2. The Return of the Jedi (1983)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. Great Expectations (1946)
  5. Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
  6. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (2009)
  7. Titanic (1997)
  8. A League of their Own (1992)
  9. Stand By Me (1986)
  10. Dreamchild (1985)

Alice Liddell is played by Amelia Shankley, and Mrs. Hargreaves is played by Coral Browne. Alice Liddell Hargreaves explains in the film why no one is to call her “Alice.”

NEXT: old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth
    Cary Grant and Irene Dunne are a divorcing couple, and during the required 30 day waiting period, between the granting of a divorce and its becoming final, a couple could nullify it by “re-consummating,” so to speak, the marriage. This is why the two make such a fuss about not being caught alone together.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth
  2. Annie (1983)

The movie is set in the 1930s. Annie wants to go to the movies, so Mr. Warbucks takes her to see “Camille”, a film that today would not be seen as for children, being about a courtesan who dies at the end. The reason for this is that back then, there was no rating system and, with a few negligible exceptions, no multiplexes. So you went and saw whatever was showing at the theater which you visited at a given time. Mr. Warbucks took Annie to that movie because that was what was showing at Radio City Music Hall, the fanciest place in town, and before the actual movie, they saw a live performance by the Rockettes.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. *The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Gay didn’t have the connotation of homosexual in the 1930’s. It did mean “happy or merry”, but also carried the meaning of “sexually active or promiscuous”. The title of the musical is was based on, The Gay Divorce, was changed because it was felt that divorce was too serious a subject, although a divorced person might be gay.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)

Luke and Leia shouldn’t have kissed like that… and Darth Vader didn’t really “kill” Luke’s father.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)

Not many of those around these days.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

In a key scene, the seconds tick by as the CIA tries to trace where Robert Redford’s character is calling from. Phone traces are nearly instantaneous now.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
  7. Transylvania 6-500 (1985)

The title refers to the outdated use of telephone exchange numbers. Transylvania 6-5000 would be listed as TR6-5000, or 876-5000.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
  7. Transylvania 6-500 (1985)
  8. Carbon Copy (1981)

With inkjet and laser printers, people who grew up after the 80s don’t understand how typewriters and carbon paper work.
The film was a box office bomb, but memorable for being Denzel Washington’s first Hollywood appearance.

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
  7. Transylvania 6-500 (1985)
  8. Carbon Copy (1981)
  9. Pillow Talk (1959)

Considering how most Miillenials and post-Millenials don’t even know about landlines, it would absolutely be necessary to have to explain two or more separate phone customers sharing the same number as part of a party line.

-“BB”-

Old movies that have to be explained because things have changed

  1. The Awful Truth (1937)
  2. Annie (1983)
  3. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  4. Star Wars (1977)
  5. Phone Booth (2002)
  6. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
  7. Transylvania 6-500 (1985)
  8. Carbon Copy (1981)
  9. Pillow Talk (1959)
  10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 + 1939)

In the original novel by Victor Hugo, the chief villain is Claude Frollo an Archdeacon. In these two film adaptations, however, he is not the villain, but his brother Jehan Frollo is (the 1939 version makes Jehan the Chief Justice of Paris). Why was this change necessary? Because standards of morality at the time precluded the portrayal of a clergyman in a film as a negative character. By the time of the second film, the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 (or Hays Code), an agreement among studios on producing content that met period standards of morality, was in place, and the portrayal of a priest as a villain would directly have contravened it.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too

James, the dad, gets a job as a jet pilot. John Travolta’s major hobby is flying planes.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca

Rick Blaine is first seen looking over a chess board; Humphrey Bogart was a talented chess player.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash

Miles Teller did learn jazz drumming for the movie but he was already an experienced drummer.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman

Michael Keaton’s Riggan Thompson is a actor famous for portraying The Birdman; Keaton was famous for his portrayal of Batman.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman
  5. Witness

In the film, Harrison Ford, hiding in an Amish community, helps to build a barn. Ford had worked as a professional carpenter.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman
  5. Witness
  6. Talk Radio

Writer and actor Eric Bogosian was a radio DJ in college.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman
  5. Witness
  6. Talk Radio
  7. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Keanu Reeves played aspiring rock musician Ted “Theodore” Logan; in the 1990s, Reeves had a side project: a rock band named Dogstar, for which he played bass guitar and sang.

Just wanted to add to this that Travolta is flight-qualified with multi-jet-engine rating, and owns no less than seven jet aircraft ranging from Gulfstream and Bombardier biz-jets to a full-size Boeing 727.

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman
  5. Witness
  6. Talk Radio
  7. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  8. Grand Prix

James Garner, who played Pete Aron, was a driver himself on a lesser level, both on- and off-road, and at the time he filmed Grand Prix driver/legendary driving coach Bob Bondurant said that he could have driven in F1 and been competitive.

-“BB”-

Movies in which actors mirror their real-life skills

  1. Look Who’s Talking Too
  2. Casablanca
  3. Whiplash
  4. Birdman
  5. Witness
  6. Talk Radio
  7. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  8. Grand Prix
  9. The Great Escape

Steve McQueen’s attempt to escape to Switzerland on a motorcycle is well-known. In real life, McQueen did indeed race motorcycles in organized races, and performed most of his own riding in the film.