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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
After Zed told me about how people had received the 1980's adaptation of Peter Straub's 'Ghost Story', I thought about what actors I'd choose if they were to go about a remake. These are my choices: Hawthorne - Ian McKellen, Sears - Sam Neil or Tommy Lee Jones, Benedikt - Robert Redford or a slightly aged Richard Gere, or a slightly aged Dennis Quaid, Jaffrey's - Gene Hackman, Wanderley (Uncle/snr) - Brian Cox and Don Wanderley - Thomas Jane or John Cusack. That's my casting off the top of my head. As for the women: that's much trickier - but for Stella Hawthorne (nominally at the moment): Anette Benning, for Alma Mobley: Ellen Page. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123 |
Elaine Page? Nah, she's way too old.  ---Gary 'finger on the pulse of contemporary culture' Fry | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Ellen Page, Hard Candy, Juno, Inception, Smart People, X-Men Three, ah, forget it.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I meant to add, who would everybody else choose. Mine are rather predictable Hollywood choices, but I definitely stand by Redford. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123 |
At even at that age, standing by Redford makes you look like a Mackintoshed compost heap. Hahahaha. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Very true. The guy's also a great actor, but not appreciated as such until the 15 years or so. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.9.142.11 |
You'd have a job to top Alice Krige, who, if memory served - while the original movie wasn't much cop - made for an extremely sexy ghost. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Paul - I haven't seen the original film (I'm probably in a minority of one for a horror fan). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123 |
I haven't seen it, either. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.219 |
I saw it as a child and only remember one thing. Yes, that one. First time I'd ever seen one.  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Fry - of course YOU haven't seen it. Everybody round here knows that. You wouldn't know an Alice Krige, Fred Astaire (hastily changed from Bing Crosby after a quick peek at Wikipedia), or Douglas Fairbank Jnr, if they came running up to you in the street with t-shits bearing their names in large, pink day-glo letters. Get back to yer editing suite and start coughing up some more of yer trailer book thingies. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.29.115.123 |
It's a fair cop. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.9.142.11 |
I don't think it's ever been released on DVD over here, which might explain its absence from several memories. I caught it at the flicks when it first came out, and I'm ashamed to say that I enjoyed it a lot more than the book, which I found ponderously slow. In my defence, we're talking 1981, when I was still a relative whipper-snapper. I've read the book again since, and got a lot more out of it. In hindsight, the original movie is a very simplified re-telling of the story, but yes, Alice Krige is a real sexpot in it, and gets her kit off on an indecently regular basis. This being my main recollection is, itself, I suppose, something of a condemnation. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Paul - I adore the book. It's magnificently structured. The writing changes styles with some of the characters almost imperceptibly. It's also one hell of a scary read. There's so much happening, so many layers, that it'll take repeated readings for me to to fully savour and realize it all. |