The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins? (Did I win?)
Close !
But no cigar .
Not sure if that counts as an artistic work, per the OP title.
Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver.
Similarly, Lou Diamond Phillips as Angel Guzman in Stand and Deliver. (Sure, he had La Bamba and other 90s-film-roles, but I would wager this is what most remember him for.)
I just mentioned this movie in another thread. I show it a few times a year to my students (well, once to each group, which translates to about three times a year), so I guess it’s absorbed into my consciousness now.
Claudia thinks she’s so hot just because she dates gabachos.
Frank Zappa: “Valley Girl”
( I jest. Although for all I know it might actually happen.)
I disagree - more people may be familiar with him in this role, but after enough time passes, most people will *remember *him as Commander Adama. SF geeks have much longer memories than the general public.
I mostly remember him as the origami guy in Blade Runner.
No mention of Anthony Hopkins? Who is more type casted than Hannibal Lechter?
Woody Allen will be remembered for the whole Soon-Yi thing long after his movies are forgotted. And OJ’s football, movie and spokesman work will be but a footnote in his life.
And I remember him as El Pachuco in Zoot Suit.
If you’re old like me, you remember Edward James Olmos as Lt Castillo on Miami Vice. But overall, I agree with Alessan; I think Adama will be his signature role.
Post #71 first one to mention Olivia de Havilland?
As Melanie Wilkes or Maid Marion? Ironically, I think both are better remembered than the two movies she won the Oscar for. (Show of hands of anyone who’s watched To Each His Own or The Heiress in the last year.)
I agree that Titanic will probably be the first thing thought of. Just because it will be remembered as one of the most successful films of all time. But I disagree that he “branched out”. Anything after his child actor days could be seen as branching out. He has always been a serious actor that has sometimes been handicapped by a babyface. His first role after* Growing Pains *was This Boy’s Life.
Oh, c’mon, people!
There’s one perfect answer for this that is guaranteed to be 100% correct. R. Lee Ermey as the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket. The obits will of course refer to him as the “profane” or “foul mouthed” drill instructor.
Chuck Norris is an interesting case. He’s going to be remembered for the Chuck Norris mythos - the whole “Chuck Norris facts” thing - rather than any of the films he was in or anything he did. From what I’ve read the only legitimately good Chuck Norris film was Code of Silence; his entire career as a leading man outside that film was a load of rubbish. I can’t say I’ve ever seen a Chuck Norris film. But for a few decades he will remain a byword for toughness. In the rain forests of the Amazon, tribespeople who have never seen a television will tell their children to shut up and stop arsing around or else Chuck Norris will be cross. That’s his future; bogeyman to the world’s children.
Which leads me to Andre the Giant. Remembered for The Princess Bride - how odd that a burly wrestler should be remembered for his role in a charming fantasy film - but also for the stickers, the whole Andre The Giant Has a Posse thing. He’s another good example of a real person who will be remembered - is remembered - for being the subject of an artistic work rather than the creator. You could probably write a thesis about the stickers, and I imagine several people have. They turn Andre into an icon, to such an extent that the face takes on a life apart from the man, and has come to overshadow it. Even though they were both symbols, the man and the name, and the face, the act. In fact, as a wrestler, Andre was a symbol of a symbol of a symbol… like a Russian doll, but a Russian doll that was dressed as a turtle. There was no Andre the Giant, he didn’t exist. The Gulf War did not take place.
Quasars are compact but highly energetic quasi-stellar masses from far away in the past; they would be lethal to us if they were nearby, but thankfully they’re all far away and getting more distant, yet they’re so violently powerful that we can see them off through the galactic fog. They terrify me with their hugeness. Imagine living forever, and long after the sun dies you’re floating in space falling towards a quasar. You’d pray for death. That’s my nightmare. It’s going to end one day but the alternative is horror beyond imagination. Quasars won’t remember Andre the Giant, although they can’t because they predate him. He’s the one who won’t remember them. On their scale, human affairs are too small to measure, too small to differentiate from the chaotic underpinnings of physics. So, in a way, from a quasar’s point of view we not only do not exist, we cannot be said to exist.
IMO Chuck Norris will be remembered for Walker, Texas Ranger, and that’s it. The whole “mythos” thing is an internet phenomenon that most people have no clue about.
My guess is that guess is that Andre the Giant’s death might make into the news on a slow night. Again, as far as the mainstream goes, there will be a vague reference to pro wrestling, and I agree that The Princess Bride will be his top billing.
Um… I don’t know how else to break this to ya…
Eh, I was responding to the previous posts. I see that I got his two celeb creds right, but in the wrong order.