Okay, I’m new here, so I apologize in advance if this has been done before. (I searched, but I may have missed it.)
**Who would you like to have play you in the movie version of your life? ** The actor doesn’t have to actually look like you, and doesn’t have to be at his or her present age. Heck, dead actors are allowed. And, would it be a drama? a comedy? a high-production musical? a western? a science-fiction 3D romp?
For myself, well, my daughter has convinced me that a young-to-middle-aged Gene Wilder would be the best choice. I’d like it to be a family-friendly comedy with lots of music.
I would pick Paul Henreid. I think he would capture the right mix of pleasant blandness with a lot of underlying conflicts. Also, I think it would be cool to speak English with that accent.
Roddy
Lately I’ve had about half a dozen people tell me that I look like Mayim Bialik, and/or her character on “The Big Bang Theory” reminds them of me. I’m not particularly thrilled with either comparison, but I guess it makes her a logical choice. I think my vision of the movie would be a drama, but it would probably end up as more of a dark comedy, with lots of inner monologue.
John C. Riley. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Reviewers would argue whether it was a black comedy or a Sci Fi adventure. Netflix and Amazon would recommend it to people who liked both Lars and the Real Girl and Oldboy. The title would be just a jumble of letters that nobody would ever figure out because it’s an anagram for a word that doesn’t exist yet.
I know the OP said they don’t have to look like you, but it wouldn’t make sense contextually to have a thin or normal-sized woman play me in a movie about me. So I’m lucky we’ve got the fat, hilarious and beautiful Melissa McCarthy to star as me!
It would definitely be a comedy. Perhaps a tragic one, but not as tragic as* Life is Beautiful*.
She (and, I suspect, you) is (are) beautiful! I often tell Madame Pepperwinkle she could be played by a young Delta Burke or Lynda Carter. She tells me I’m a silly boy.
Woody Allen is really the only fit. He’d need to put on his game face though, the role would be a masterpiece of ultra neurotic, self-deprecating, clumsy, misunderstood intellectualism all wrapped up in delusional paranoia. I think only Woody Allen could do it right. It would be one of those knee-biting, gut-wrenching awkward comedies. The sort that elicits laughter, but it’s nervous laughter…like when you’re watching the movie “Falling Down” for the second time.
Johnny Depp would be a good choice because he looks a bit like me. It would have to be a low-budget indie film though because my life isn’t that interesting.
Well, in MY life I’ve never had to choose between cutting the blue wire or the red wire while skydiving from a helicopter in a suit of armor, but in the movie version, with the clock ticking down to the mandatory last second, and the sopranoes singing in the background, it’s Hollywood box office gold! (Fade to animation sequence…)