# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/141 "2010-08-18T18:20:30Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > > [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > > > Brad Pitt in **Burn After Reading**. And it’s damned hard to steal scenes from the other two stars! > > This may go hand-in-hand with the argument about Johnny Depp above, but based on the way Pitt’s character was played up in the previews, I’d assumed he was going to be much more essential to the movie than he actually was. It’s a little hard for me to believe that Pitt was cast in a small role that surprised everyone by ending up being bigger than it was supposed to be. His parts were great, though. This reminds me – Brad Pitt was incredible in _Snatch_. It was a great movie with a large cast of great actors all doing a great job, but yeah, Pitt snatched it away from all of them. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/142 "2010-08-19T00:09:09Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > 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. Thank you! When True Romance came out in 93, I said, “Damn, that Gandolfini cat is going to be a huge star one day. The way he delivered that rueful smirk right after clocking Arquette was understated, but brilliant. Mark. My. Words.” ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/143 "2010-08-19T00:48:48Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Here’s a dark horse… [Absence of Malice](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081974/) > > The movie was convoluted and talky, and about 100 minutes in the 116 minute long film, was nowhere near being resolved. Then **Wilford Brimley** of all people comes in as Judge, Jury, and Executioner, wraps everything up (in what was easily the most electric scene in the movie), departs, and after a goodbye scene between Paul Newman and Sally Field, ROLL CREDITS. > > It was _Deus Ex Brimley_, especially since he’s tenth-billed on the film. That one scene was the only time you saw his character. Oh, absolutely. [Here’s the scene, in two parts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZahHekI0gE) My own thought is that [Forest Whitaker](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114508/) was by far the most developed character in the first **Species** movie. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/144 "2010-08-19T06:53:32Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > 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. He was good, but no-one stole that film away from Gary Oldman, aiight?. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/145 "2010-08-19T07:08:57Z")
The point was made earlier that _all_ the side characters stole the movie from the two leads. (Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Bronson Pinchot.) ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/146 "2010-08-19T14:16:33Z")
Leonardo Dicaprio in _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?_ ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/147 "2010-08-20T21:48:16Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix. Yes, that was the one I was going to post. The girl is rivetting. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/148 "2010-08-21T00:48:32Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > - Marty Feldman in “Young Frankenstein” Gene Hackman in “Young Frankenstein”. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/149 "2010-08-21T01:25:47Z")
A real stole the movie? No big stars in characters roles - or roles you suspect were cut to hell for sub-par performance? No two star films? No simple scenery chewing? (And I do love Alan Rickman) Pamela Reed & David Caruso in “Proof of Life”. Particularly the 3 second scene on the patio. Well, maybe they didn’t steal it, but the movie would have been completely meaningless without them. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/150 "2010-08-21T01:33:41Z")
I think Jane Lynch in Julie and Julia stole scenes from Meryl Streep. Might be the first one who ever managed to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Kerrman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Joe\_Kerrman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Kerrman)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/151 "2010-08-21T02:13:51Z")
I thought Sam Shepard stole the few scenes he was part of in “The Notebook.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952/152 "2010-08-21T02:26:00Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > I think Jane Lynch in Julie and Julia stole scenes from Meryl Streep. Might be the first one who ever managed to do so. Was _The Devil Wears Prada_ supposed to be Anne Hathaway’s movie, or Streep’s? If it was Hathaway’s then Streep stole it out from under her. I won’t say Katy Jurado stole \*High Noon \*from Gary Cooper, but she sure as hell won the hand in every scene she was in, including the scenes she shared with Grace Kelly. I’d say James Earl Jones stole _Field of Dreams_ from Kevin Costner, but I’d also say the same about Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster and even Amy Madigan, so that isn’t a good example. Sean Connery in _The Untouchables._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/she-he-stole-the-movie/545952.md?page=7)