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Title: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: gospel on 07 Apr 2010, 11:03
You know, I think he's got a good stick going. Justified seems to be getting me through the dry and weary spring season of television (Damages S3 = boring, Breaking Bad starting up). Nonetheless, I know he likes to hand-pick those modern-cowboy thing (i.e. The Crazies). Are you happy with Timothy's (or other typecast actors') roles, or would you like to see him (them) expand?

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Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: scarred on 08 Apr 2010, 02:33
wonder woman
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Dazed on 08 Apr 2010, 05:39
I thought he was great busting out of his shell in Hitman and Live Free or Die Hard, so I don't know what you're talking about.

But really, Morgan Freeman as a bad dude. A seriously fucked up, complex, interesting bad dude. Not some cartoonish idiocy like Wanted, like, a really really bad dude in a good movie.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Border Reiver on 08 Apr 2010, 08:03
Sean Bean in a comedy
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Coward on 08 Apr 2010, 15:45
Whilst on Sean Bean, I know he is typecast in various action roles but I was very impressed by his performance in Ronin. Seeing him play a bluffing big timer who actually can't stomach bloodshed was quite refreshing I thought.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: LeeC on 08 Apr 2010, 15:47
But really, Morgan Freeman as a bad dude. A seriously fucked up, complex, interesting bad dude. Not some cartoonish idiocy like Wanted, like, a really really bad dude in a good movie.
have you seen lucky number sleven?
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Blue Kitty on 08 Apr 2010, 15:50
I thought he was wonderful in it
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: scarred on 08 Apr 2010, 18:10
dudes, wanted was terrible

seriously

"the loom of fate"
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: KvP on 08 Apr 2010, 18:19
check out his first movie, the one with Christopher Reeve, where he plays a violent pimp.

There was another film he was in recently where he was the villain but that's a pretty massive spoiler so I won't name it.

But the dude has played villains.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Blue Kitty on 08 Apr 2010, 18:25
I was talking about Lucky # Slevin
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Alex C on 08 Apr 2010, 18:28
Yeah, the Reeve movie KvP is referring to is Street Smart, an OK movie that Freeman pretty much carries. He got his first Academy nom for it, actually. Seongyong Cho (who I found out about by way of Roger Ebert) wrote a pretty good summation (http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2010/04/post.html) of it just recently. It's a bit spoilery, but like I said, it's mostly a movie that's memorable for Freeman's performance, so you're not really missing out on much by being introduced by bits and pieces. I personally have a hard time getting past some of the "Whoa, the '80s" moments and some of the more glaring plotholes, but it's definitely interesting to see how different Freeman's first big role is from the stuff he's taken on in later years.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Nodaisho on 09 Apr 2010, 04:09
There was another film he was in recently where he was the villain but that's a pretty massive spoiler so I won't name it.
If it is the one I am thinking of, I'm not sure I would really consider him a villain. A villain in that his actions go against the actions of the main protagonist, but it isn't all that clearcut which one was in the right.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: beat mouse on 10 Apr 2010, 01:13
Steve Buscemi as a confident ladies' man.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: David_Dovey on 10 Apr 2010, 02:31
There was another film he was in recently where he was the villain but that's a pretty massive spoiler so I won't name it.

Is it Invictus?


It's Invictus isn't it.

What a great swerve, make Mandela the bad guy why didn't I think of that
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: David_Dovey on 10 Apr 2010, 02:42
anyway I don't see how Hitman was a mould-breaker for Tim Olyphant, he played a perpetually pissed off guy who is handy with a gun and not an awful lot of time for those goddamned stupid weak women.
Title: Re: What would you like to see Timothy Olyphant (or other typecast actors) play?
Post by: Inlander on 11 Apr 2010, 05:22
Until Deadwood I always thought of Mr. Olyphant as a drug dealer.