nezobiwan said:
Thought about this in the "Ford's Voice" thread...
There are rare instances where an actor ceases to be an actor for me and becomes their character... Indiana Jones was always in this category for me. It's to the point where I don't really connect Indiana Jones and Han Solo as being the same person. Harrison doesn't totally disappear into all of his roles, and there will always be a little bit of Indy in everything he does... but in the trilogy Harrison
IS Indy. Harrison ceases to exist.
There are other examples of this "actor vanishing" for me:
Tom Cruise as Lestat in
Interview with the Vampire
Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in
American Psycho
There are more as well... anyone else experience the same thing? Or am I more than a little nutty?
I have to agree that Han and Indy are very distinct from one another that I can't typecast none of them because Harrison gave them a different style.
agentsands77:
"At this point, it's just a guess, but it's really hard to see Heath Ledger in those bits we've seen of his Joker. Largely because it's just so different from anything he's ever done."
I also agree to that as well because when I saw him in the trailers I thought, "MY GOSH! THAT IS NOT HEATH LEDGER!" He became the Joker, basically!
I have a long list of actors immersing their character roles to a point they ARE the characters:
David Thewlis as Remus Lupin in
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Vincent Price as Ratigan in
The Great Mouse Detective
Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Jack Sparrow
Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate in
The Great Race - A Really underrated performance from a great actor!
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp-
Roger Livesy as Clive Candy; I was emotionally invested in this character and I thought watching it when he became an older version of Clive he became a character all by himself.
Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff; Clive's German friend which I also totally invested in and believed in especially in the scene where he gives his sorrowful tale of how nazism destroyed his life and happy family to a point I was in tears.
Mary Poppins- Dick Van Dyke as Mr. Dawes, Sr. ; He really fooled me for the longest time and I thought it was another actor but it was Dick Van Dyke in great makeup and great acting as the old bank manager.
Ed Wood - Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi; He WAS Lugosi. Period.
Jacques Tati as Mr. Hulot in Mr. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp
The Marx Brothers in their films
Anytime Eddie Murphy put makeup in his comedies.
Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite, enuff said!
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant; I always thought he was American!
Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit.
There will be Blood - Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview; You could not tell the two Daniels apart. Daniel Plainview is a hard, driven monster of a oil man who shouts out, "I drink Your Milkshake", he basically became his own by the end and the Daniel Day Lewis I see in interviews is shy and soft spoken and is modest of his incredible acting.
OlIVER!:
Ron Moody as Fagin
Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes scared me so bad as a child and still to this day I have nightmares of him, He WAS SO scary!
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen:
John Neville as Baron Munchausen
Scarface (1932)
Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, he was so REAL like a mixture of Al Capone and Frankenstein.