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Classic Actors and their Modern Counterparts

Parvule​sco

over 3 years ago

A question: Which current actor/actress do you think serves as a good modern equivalent to a legendary classic actor/actress?

For instance,

Tom Hanks as the new Jimmy Stewart

George Clooney as the Cary Grant

Go…

kyle

over 3 years ago

whenever i see robert redford in films like butch cassidy, i always picture him as a brad pitt of that era. not so much in terms as acting, but more in the roles he played and his looks.

Brad S.

over 3 years ago

Richard Windmark = Kevin Spacey

Jamie Mattick

over 3 years ago

who’s Toshiro Mifune that’s what I want to know!

Tan Zen Wan

over 3 years ago

Toshiro Mifune?

Probably Jean Reno.

Jamie Mattick

over 3 years ago

remake of Rashomon with Jean reno….love it

Parvule​sco

over 3 years ago

@ Brad S.

In what way?

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

hugh grant = cary grant (with worse taste in material)
stallone=charles bronson (with worse taste in material)

Jerry Johnson

over 3 years ago

hugh grant = cary grant (with worse taste in material)

What an insult. Cary Grant is the greatest actor in the history of cinema. Hawks and Hitchcock built their greatest monuments around him.

Brad S.

over 3 years ago

@ Dan – They’re both natural at combining menace and intelligence.

Parvule​sco

over 3 years ago

I like it.

Joe Pesci = Edward G. Robinson
That black actress whose name I can’t think of (she always has an “attitude” and is often cast as a housekeeper/servant) = Thelma Ritter

Harry Long

over 3 years ago

>>hugh grant = cary grant (with worse taste in material)<<
Isn’t it weird that as Grant became more famous & could, theoretically, have his pick of any project, the films got worse (witha few exceptions along the way).

Dennis Brian

over 3 years ago

I meant hugh grant has worse taste in picking material
sorry for the mixup

grants did some silly movies (that touch of mink, walk dont run) but I always like them despite myself

A Serious Man Who Wasn't There

over 3 years ago

Cary Grant can’t be compared to any other actor. That’s cinematic blasphemy.

Eric Beltman​n

over 3 years ago

Montgomery Clift = Mark Ruffalo

Caleb

over 3 years ago

james franco as james dean