When Casting Nailed It... Examples? (Films)

Ipso

Stop moaning ffs wrote: »

Viggo Mortensen and Ian Mckellan In Lord of the Rings are both perfectly cast.

And Christopher Lee. Also him in Prince of Darkness.

AmberGold

Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in Sideways.
Clooney in the Descendants.
Fassbender in Inglourious Basterds.

squawker

Richard E Grant for Withnail and I

And the whole cast of Clints Eastwood's majestic "Unforgiven"

silverharp

Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List

Agent Coulson

Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.

SaltSweatSugar

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.

Clark Gregg as you...

...I’ll get my coat

quickbeam

Zorya wrote: »

Carole Lombard in Gone With The Wind

No.

byte

Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. I thought he portrayed that role well.

Patser

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons

John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich

Stop moaning ffs

squawker wrote: »

Richard E Grant for Withnail and I

And the whole cast of Clints Eastwood's majestic "Unforgiven"

Oh wow!!

Grant is fantastic in that role! Nobody else could have done it!
A masterpiece and a brilliant performance.

Jimbob1977

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List

Chilling performance.

He was so convincing and like Amon Goeth that a survivor (acting as a consultant for the movie) fainted when she saw Fiennes in uniform.

Naydy

Frances McDormand in Three Billboards

Slydice

Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting

bullpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YcsoQ4JgBQ

Remouad

Richard Harris as "Bull" McCabe in the field.

In an interesting twist Harris as Dumbledore.
Even though he was only in 2 of the 8 movies he is still who I picture when I think of the character.

Michael Gambon did his best but was playing a role that wasn't his.

valoren

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Leslie Nielsen in 'The Naked Gun'.

And Airplane. The writers as we know looked to spoof the disaster movies from the 70's and Nielsen's reputation as a serious drama actor was a big contributor to the overall comedy in the film for delivering the lines in his unflinchingly dead pan manner per those serious disaster movies.

Remouad

Slydice wrote: »

Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting

He wrote it so he was kind of cheating

derfderf

Not a huge marvel fan, but Josh Brolin as Thanos. I thought he was amazing.

Two actors I'm not a big fan of, but i thought were perfect in the roles:
Colin Farrell - In Bruges
Brad Pitt - Fight Club

NoBread

facehugger99 wrote: »

For me this question makes more sense if the movie is based on a source material that you have previously read and formed a view of the characters, then an actor come along and perfectly captures or even exceeds the idea that you already had in your head.

Completely agree with this, otherwise you've no benchmark for how well the role is being portrayed.
Hence I'd vote for Christopher Reeve (is there even a need to say which movie?!?) and David Huddleston in Santa Claus The Movie (1984).

.Charlo

Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro - Goodfellas

John Cazale - The Godfather

Tom Hanks - Forest Gump

MfMan

Patser wrote: »

Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws (also honourable mentions to Dreyfuss, Scheider and Murray Hamilton as the mayor)

+1. Superb ensemble casting there.

Hard to imagine anyone else but Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.

Alec Guinness was so good as George Smiley in TV series of 'Tinker, Tailor....' that John Le Carre wrote in some of his mannerisms in future Smiley novels.

Greyfox

Russel Crowe in Gladiator

El Duda

.Charlo wrote: »

Ray Liotta and Robert De Niro - Goodfellas

branie2

Daniel Craig as James Bond

Dots1982

Patser wrote: »

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons

John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich

John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire

And probably in Con Air as well

Jurgen The German

Sam Jackson as Jules Winfield.

Russell Crowe as Hando in Romper Stomper.

branie2

Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher in Gangs of New York. A brilliant performance by him.

Ann22

Zorya wrote:

Carole Lombard in Gone With The Wind Juliette Binoche in Chocolate Meryl Streep Sophie's Choice Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine and Hideous Kinky...but I did not think she was well cast in Titanic

I don't think Carole Lombard was in Gone With The Wind...was she?

harry Bailey esq

Phil Daniels in quadrophenia for me. I think Brendan Gleeson played a stormer in The Guard too. Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.

Tony EH

Ann22 wrote: »

I don't think Carole Lombard was in Gone With The Wind...was she?

No.

I think that poster is thinking of Vivien Leigh or Olivia De Havilland. More than likely, the latter as her and Lombard look a nit alike.

Ipso

Jurgen The German wrote: »

Sam Jackson as Jules Winfield.

Russell Crowe as Hando in Romper Stomper.

I thought he was really well suited as Bud White in LA Confidentiality.

branie2

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line

Am watching High Fidelity and there's a lot of great casting in that film (except Laura), but the one that really does it for me is the guy who plays Dick.

He's perfect as that socially awkward music nerd, hilarious.

IMDb said his name is Todd Louiso, don't think I saw him in anything else.

Agent Coulson

Deleted User wrote: »

Am watching High Fidelity and there's a lot of great casting in that film (except Laura), but the one that really does it for me is the guy who plays Dick.

He's perfect as that socially awkward music nerd, hilarious.

IMDb said his name is Todd Louiso, don't think I saw him in anything else.

I remember when I first saw this on its release I thought that guy was Moby.

Agent Coulson

Agent Coulson wrote: »

I remember when I first saw this on its release I thought that guy was Moby.

Very like him!

Patser

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Am watching High Fidelity and there's a lot of great casting in that film (except Laura), but the one that really does it for me is the guy who plays Dick.

He's perfect as that socially awkward music nerd, hilarious.

IMDb said his name is Todd Louiso, don't think I saw him in anything else.

Your bang on with his casting there. He was in Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind too.

Goodshape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHMjO7UbMo

Stone Deaf 4evr

Goodshape wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDHMjO7UbMo

Oddly enough, the mention of Michael Chiklis in that song reminded me of his perfect turn as Ben Grimm in the otherwise Brutal fantastic 4 films.

Stone Deaf 4evr

I'll also throw in:

Daniel Bruhl as Nikki Lauda in Rush

Stone Deaf 4evr

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I'll also throw in:

Daniel Bruhl as Nikki Lauda in Rush

Absolutely

Heard two fellas debating this on the train a while back - Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

I think it was a stellar bit of casting.

quickbeam

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

I'll also throw in:

Daniel Bruhl as Nikki Lauda in Rush

True, but Bruhl is a very good looking guy. It'd not have been an obvious choice for Lauda, yet it works.

ziedth

Deleted User wrote: »

Heard two fellas debating this on the train a while back - Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

I think it was a stellar bit of casting.

For all his faults (How many he has is up for debate) but to be fair to QT he generally is spot on with his casting. Like he wrote John Travoltas character in Pulp Fiction with Michael Madsen in mind (You can see it working in your mind and interestingly they have been confirmed as brothers in later years with his character from Reservior Dogs). Anyway, Travolota was an inspired bit of casting there when his career was in free fall.

bazza1

Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking