One of my all-time favorite sceen villains is Christopher Plummer in Silent Partner. A Canadian, but also a Shakespearean actor!
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Oram To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since 1988) Make sure the villain is English and you have a hit, a great Hollywood tradition which goes back quite a long way. John Lithgow is an exceptionally good bad guy and I always thought he was English until I checked - must of been his hammy Shakespearean roots. Simon Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> Sender: MoPo List <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 06:02:57 -0500 To: <[email protected]> ReplyTo: Bruce Hershenson <[email protected]> Subject: [MOPO] I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since 1988) I re-watched Die Hard the other day (for the first time since 1988) and I was reminded of just how excellent a movie it was. It has a great script and great performances by Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia, but what really makes it "work" so well is the remarkable performance by Alan Rickman as the villain (and amazingly he had never been in a movie before!). The producers of the James Bond and Mission Impossible type movies should ALWAYS hire a really first-rate actor (Ben Kingsley, Geoffrey Rush, F. Murray Abraham, Bob Hoskins, etc) to play the villain, because it adds SO MUCH to the movie (and of course it also makes sense to find the most beautiful women in the world, whether or not they can act at all)! Bruce -- Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch) our site our auctions Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
