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Perfect Casting Part Three
Griffyn612:
I'm always surprised how old people go when casting for Marcone. I know he's supposed to be old enough to run a criminal organization, but he's around the same age as the Beckitts.
(click to show/hide)In WHITE NIGHT, Harry soulgazes Helen Beckitt. He sees a ten or eleven year old girl killed by a young looking Marcone. In DEATH MASKS, we see that same girl, Amanda Beckitt, as a late teens or early twenties coma patient. That means that, at most, Marcone was youngish looking 15 years earlier.
I figure Marcone was in his late twenties or early thirties when she was killed. That would give him a youngish appearance, still young enough to pull off the leather jacket and jeans with messy hair and stubble that Harry sees in the soulgaze. Even if he was 35 at the time, he'd only be 50 as of DEATH MASKS.
That's why I'd cast him younger, with someone like Adrian Pasdar. He can do cold, shark-like, or a disarming smile. He's fit enough to be the active Marcone, but has a weight to him that makes you feel like he has authority. He played football when he was younger, so he even falls into the "Marcone looks like a football coach" description.
--- Quote ---Gentleman Johnny Marcone didn’t look like the sort of man who would have my legs broken or my jaw wired shut. His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and there were lines from sun and smiling etched into the corners of his eyes. His eyes were the green of well-worn dollar bills. He seemed more like a college football coach: good-looking, tanned, athletic, and enthusiastic.
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You team him up with John Cena as Hendricks, and you've got yourself some mobsters.
--- Quote ---Hendricks was still huge, still redheaded, still looked vaguely like a defensive lineman a little too awkward to make it from college to pro ball.
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And as for Miss Gard, January Jones
--- Quote ---Cujo Hendricks had a date. He had a blond date. He had a gorgeous, leggy, blue-eyed, elegant, tall, Nordic angel of a date. She was wearing a white gown, and silver flashed at her throat, on each wrist, and on one ankle. I’d seen bikinis in issues of Sports Illustrated that might have felt too plain to be worn by Hendricks’s date.
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Rasins:
I'm not sure Cena would take a part to play such a chatterbox like Hendrix.
Dina:
I agree about the age, but not about Pasdar because he did make me thing he would order his men to rip my limbs off.
Al-Hajj Bilal Ammar Jihad:
--- Quote from: Quantus on May 24, 2014, 08:04:30 PM ---For the dialoge bit sure, he right up there with De Niro. But I cant see This man doing the action sequences Marcone needs to be capable of.
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Well, I admit your photo is a lot older looking that the last time I saw him ("Independence Day"), which is how I picture him as Marcone. But hell, he probably was that old when he did ID. A lot of celebrities sans makeup look like crap. As for the action sequences, I don't think but maybe a handful of the world's greatest martial artists could actually pull off the knife-trick from FM. That's what CG is for. It's why we didn't see decent movies of Marvel Superheroes until there was CG.
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Phariah:
sorry Loggia does not evoke a " Predator", feel. physically, appearance wise, nor otherwise. Jim Caviezel, when I see him doing POI I can totally get a Marcone feel from him.
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