keanu reeves
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Etherdave — 12 years ago(April 20, 2013 03:16 PM)
The casting for this film baffled me. To me the best actor to play Sam Bowden was Robert DeNiro, as he is the only actor of his generation that could possibly do justice to a role created by Gregory Peck. Likewise, I cannot see a better man to play the rough, seedy, twisted Max Cady, than Nick Nolte. Further, I do not understand turning the Bowden family into self-gentrified white trash, unless the producers bought the notion put forward in the novel 'Wild At Heart', namely that's all there is in Cape Fear. Writing 'Danielle Bowden' as a sexually-precocious Lolita-esque character is likewise baffling was this a reference to the troubled production of the original film? Lewis' performance got her an Oscar nomination, but was it really necessary to the film? Were we supposed to sympathize with Cady, whose character in this film was actually a mashup of the original 'Cape Fear' and 'Night Of The Hunter'? The brilliance of the original film is its simplicity: A straight-arrow lawyer loses faith, and commits a crime against his society, his profession, and the very foundations upon which his country is founded. Max Cady is the instrument of his comeuppance.
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stewie-3 — 12 years ago(October 22, 2013 10:30 PM)
Crispin Glover (though he would be quite interesting in the part)
Peter Graves
Ben Affleck (see the sicko killer who bores his victims to death!)
John Travolta
Fred MacMurray
Fred Williamson (you know he'd be the hero who'd save the day).
I would, respectfully, disagree a bit with the poster who selected Ernie Borgnine. Borgnine was a lot better actor and could play sinister quite well. He couldn't have pulled off the sexual innuendo that DeNiro had going on with his character, most likely. But as far as being a scary mofo who could terrorize an entire family - Oh heck yeah! -
SpaceMountainMike — 10 years ago(March 16, 2016 03:52 PM)
Robin Williams Has demonstrated at times that he has serious acting talent, even when playing a "dead serious" role quite the opposite of his usual comic roles. For instance, I recall him playing an enraged bereaved husband (or was that a bereaved father whose daughter was killed? foggy memory here) on some TV show or another. I didn't see Mork, I saw the character he was playing
He also played a creepy stalker in Insomnia and 24 hour photo.
Someone mentioned Arnold Schwarzenegger and Steven Seagal. I disagree very strongly asd both those guys are badasses.
I noticed at least 90% of the examples given on this thread are comic actors.
My iMDB profile
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wylierichardson-966-922691 — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 11:29 PM)
But people can relocate from one place to another, can't they? I as a New Yorker have known plenty of folks who came here from other places - including the same Southeast that is the setting of "Cape Fear".
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wylierichardson-966-922691 — 10 years ago(March 15, 2016 11:34 PM)
I am seeing quite a few repeats, here. Also some haphazard inclusions of female actors. I should think it's a given that only a male could play this role. With that said, my choices:
James Stewart
Mickey Rooney
Gene Kelly
Ed Wynn
Zach Braff
Peter Allen
Peter Dinklage
