# She/He Stole The Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952 "2010-07-08T12:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/21 "2010-07-08T15:29:51Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > THE definitive award for stealing a movie goes to Peter Sellers. The leading man in _The Pink Panther_ was supposed to be David Niven. During the filming, however, Blake Edwards, the cast and crew spent so much time laughing at Sellers’ performance that the film was reworked to make Inspector Clouseau the main character. Actually not – there are very long stretches where he doesn’t appear, though they did beef up the part. Mark Rydell as Marty Augustine in **The Long Goodbye** Robert Duvall in **Apocalypse Now** Robert Preston in **S.O.B.** and also **Victor/Victoria** Thelma Ritter in every film she was in. Technically, Rita Moreno in **The Ritz** , though the script was written with her in mind – but she’s a supporting character, not the main one. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/22 "2010-07-08T15:33:52Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday stole every scene he was in in _Tombstone_. Completely agreed. A very entertaining movie overall, but he was the real star. > [@Hampshire](#): > > I haven’t even seen the movie yet but everyone seems to be in agreeance that **Chloe Moretz** stole the show in **Kick-ass**. I enjoyed this movie way more than I’d anticipated, and I can get on board with that. I found myself really looking forward to her being on-screen. I’m going to attribute at least a chunk of that to the way her character was written, though, as opposed to just how good she was. And I concur with **Heath Ledger** , of course, but I assumed that was going to be everyone’s answer. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/23 "2010-07-08T15:51:12Z")
Vin Diesel stole the crap out of **Boiler Room** , an otherwise forgettable movie. He’s awesome in it, and skinner than you’ve ever seen him. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/24 "2010-07-08T16:00:13Z")
I thought David Cross as Cain stole every scene he was in in “Year One.” ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/25 "2010-07-08T16:30:06Z")
Rupert Everett completely stole **My Best Friend’s Wedding** , so much that people tend to think of him as the “best friend” and forget that Dermot Mulroney was even in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/26 "2010-07-08T16:42:15Z")
Another “Me too” for Val Kilmer in Tombstone. My submissions: - Although I had no particular interest in, or respect for David Carradine, he STOLE “Long Riders” from two other Carradines, as well as two Quaids, Keaches, and Guests. - Yaphet Kotto in “Alien” . ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/27 "2010-07-08T17:50:30Z")
Johnny Depp completely stole _Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl_ - especially if you think of “stealing” as meaning “so completely taking the spotlight from the erstwhile stars, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, that the producers end up writing the sequels around your originally-tertiary character.” ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/28 "2010-07-08T17:56:40Z")
**Marisa Tomei** in _My Cousin Vinny_, why is probably why she got best supporting actress. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/29 "2010-07-08T18:01:57Z")
From two of my all-time favorite comedies: John Belushi’s “Bluto” Blutarski in _Animal House_ and Bill Murray’s Carl Spackler in _Caddyshack_ are both essentially supporting characters. Yet they’re inevitably the first things anyone remembers from these films. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/30 "2010-07-08T18:04:21Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I didn’t believe it when it first came out, but on subsequent rewatchings I absolutely have to agree that Heath Ledger totally stole the Dark Knight movie. The whole first third of the movie could have been chopped out, what with Emo angsty girl, etc. Well, consensus at the time was that Nicholson stole the movie in the first Batman flick as well. So it may be the part. Charismatic psychopaths apparently beat out uncharismatic psychopaths. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/31 "2010-07-08T18:04:52Z")
James Gandolfini had the best scene in True Romance. He didn’t run away with the movie, but if he was given more screen time he probably would have. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/32 "2010-07-08T18:13:14Z")
Warren Oates in **Two Lane Blacktop**. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/33 "2010-07-08T18:45:48Z")
Karl Urban as Bones McCoy and Simon Pegg as Scotty in the 2009 _Star Trek_ may not have stolen the movie, but they stole every scene they were in. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/34 "2010-07-08T19:09:20Z")
Steve McQueen in _The Magnificent Seven_. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/35 "2010-07-08T19:24:38Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Johnny Depp completely stole _Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl_ - especially if you think of “stealing” as meaning “so completely taking the spotlight from the erstwhile stars, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, that the producers end up writing the sequels around your originally-tertiary character.” Bloom and Knightley were the romantic leads, but I think Depp was always the “star.” He was a famous, charismatic leading man cast in a flamboyant, larger-than-life role, and the [marketing](http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Posters_i1106541_.htm) of the film certainly doesn’t suggest that he was ever considered a tertiary player. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/36 "2010-07-08T19:28:35Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Bloom and Knightley were the romantic leads, but I think Depp was always the “star.” He was a famous, charismatic leading man cast in a flamboyant, larger-than-life role, and the [marketing](http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-Posters_i1106541_.htm) of the film certainly doesn’t suggest that he was ever considered a tertiary player. Yep. Similar is his role in Alice in Wonderland. He may seem like a secondary player in the story but there was no doubt they marketed the film around him. [poster](http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getposter.asp&APNum=6132916&CID=320BB8951F274E8BA28E5BDB551E2378&PPID=1&Search=&f=t&FindID=0&P=1&PP=1&sortby=PD&c=c&page=1) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/37 "2010-07-08T19:33:46Z")
If anyone stole the PotC films it has to be Jack, the Undead Monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/38 "2010-07-08T19:37:25Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > If anyone stole the PotC films it has to be Jack, the Undead Monkey. Sweet Zombie Jesus! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/39 "2010-07-08T20:22:38Z")
Yeah, I’d have to agree that Depp was a star of PotC, along with Bloom and Kneightly. Geoffrey Rush, on the other hand, stole every scene he was in, even the ones with Depp. He wasn’t over-the-top, not scenery chewing, just plain perfect as a bitter, rough, undead pirate-captain. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/40 "2010-07-08T20:39:25Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday stole every scene he was in in _Tombstone_. This is what I came in here to say. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952.md?page=3)