Casting the Best Film Ever
If I was making the Best Film Ever, I'd be casting the following actors in the following roles:

Brian Dennehy as The Donut-eating Cop
Gary Sinise as Shifty Cop Who Turns Good in the End
Kevin Bacon as The Victim
Gary Oldman as The Baddie
Jeff Goldblum as The Wacky Scientist with the Jewish Father who Plays Chess in Central Park
Reese Witherspoon as The Southern Belle
Nicole Kidman as The Annoying Bint Who Gets Killed Nastily In The First Fifteen Minutes (this poignant piece of casting is just for my own gratification).

No idea what the plot line is, but the typecasting is awesome.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 9:58, 11 replies)

Kevin Bacon
I always think he seems like a victim, but at first he seems like the baddy, so you don't feel sorry for him, but in the end he is not so bad.

What about Morgan Freeman as the wiseman? They always get him to play a wiseman, so it makes them look non-racist.

Here is my idea of what goes through casring execs minds:

"If we have a blackman in a minor role as an intelligent person, no one could possibly accuse us of racism! Even though we quite clearly are."
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:02, closed)

Gary Oldman...
I was debating him the other night. Has he ever played a good guy?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:02, closed)

oh yes!
Morgan Freeman as wise, good man! Or god.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:03, closed)

@ Enzyme.
Gary Oldman - Commissioner Gordon, good guy :)
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:07, closed)

I agree with this...
But given the choice between J-Lo and Nicole Kidman getting killed by rabid sabre toothed tigers in the first few minutes, it's J-Lo that gets thrown to the stabby fanged kitties every time.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:11, closed)

@Archie
Ah-ha!

*goes off to rent Batman Begins and queue for IMAX tickets for Dark Knight*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:12, closed)

Gary Oldman played Beethoven
Good guy or bad guy - hard to say!

Also, Sirius Black in Harry Potter who is a bit of both too I suppose.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:23, closed)

I initially read "Gary Oldman" as
"Gary Coleman."

Hopefully your producer will read the list more closely than I did. T'would make for a very different film, I feel...
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:31, closed)

Gary Oldman =
one of my favourite baddies of all time, Stansfield in Leon!

"I love these little moments of calm before the storm", delivered SO quietly, so tenderly.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 10:37, closed)

Also
Steve Buscemi & Samuel L Jackson as the guys that crop up in everything
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 11:10, closed)

What about ?
Keanu Reeves as a Tree
(Funkwomble XBL and PSN DangerBoy73, Fri 18 Jul 2008, 16:02, closed)