John Malkovich miscast
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Catdubh — 14 years ago(April 10, 2011 01:08 PM)
How many Italian guys from Jersey do you know who are named Ellery Coolidge?
You make a good point but in reply, Ellery Coolidge was a name, and not definitive of the character. While Chazz is a well known East Coast, Italian American actor, the fact that I did not associate the character Ellery Coolidge, with any ethnicity, is more indicative of Chazz's versatile acting ability, IMHO.
Perhaps other viewers, such as you, immediately associated Chazz as miscast as
Ellery because he is a well known Italian American actor but I did not make that association.
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degree7 — 14 years ago(August 24, 2011 11:50 PM)
and Jennifer Connelly was only there for eye candy.
I'm pretty sure her character was there for a lot more reasons than that. Were you even paying attention?
And to the OP, I disagree, Malkovich's monologue about atoms when he and Nolte's character first meet is great!
And Malkovich was already 43 during the production of this film.
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degree7 — 14 years ago(August 25, 2011 10:58 PM)
So they could have put some butterface in her role then, but how would that make sense to the story?
Obviously a woman like her would have to have been a fairly decent knock-out bombshell to attract the attention of both a high-ranking general and a married member of the hat-squad.
But I get what you're saying, Jennifer Connelly put in a bad performance. In which case you are CLUELESS, just look at that primal look in her eyes when she and Nolte first meet, there's a certain talent there that not just any yahoo could pull off.
She appears in all of, what, two brief scenes, and for her to be able to shadow those snippets of her character and transpose that over the rest of the film, she would have had to have been a good actress.
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degree7 — 14 years ago(August 27, 2011 01:27 PM)
She did a 10x better job than Kim Basinger in LA Confidential, who basically stood around looking pretty.
Jennifer Connelly had about two lines in the script, and managed to outdo old Kim.
Anyway, they couldn't have gone with any old pornstar, because certain actors and actresses have something called star presence, and Ms. Connelly has that in spades in this film.
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movies789 — 9 years ago(April 22, 2016 05:59 PM)
Catdubh You say your great-uncle was - a general? In his early twenties? In WWII? Aaaaah, no - I'm just not buying it. In the Civil War, sure; WWII, no. If you'll name him, I'd like to look him up on google or Wikipedia; surely a WWII general in his early twenties would be there. He'd have to have been a renowned public figure, so privacy shouldn't be an issue. If your claim is provable, I'll edit this post and eat my words right here, for all the world to see. Still, I wish him well, whatever his rank and age at the time.
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jones7418 — 13 years ago(August 24, 2012 09:13 PM)
I think Melanie Griffith was miscast; way too young for the part. Really, they want us to think a gorgeous young blonde like her would marry a man who looks like the Blair Witch at age 75? Someone a little closer to Nolte's age would've been more believable. MG did a good job, she was just not old enough.
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Edward_de_Vere — 9 years ago(May 31, 2016 12:28 PM)
First of all,he didn't at all act militarily to me
I thought the same thing at first.
However, it's likely that the character had an unorthodox military career, perhaps as a nuclear scientist who became a commissioned officer in the Army and was mostly involved in the Army's nuclear research program from then on. So perhaps it's fitting that in spite of his rank he seemed more like a stereotypical scientist than a stereotypical Army General.