Sean Connery is good for Jack's father. Or...Clint Eastwood.
XamberB Wrote:Yes, either would make a great "Dad". Who would play Tom? Abe?
Abe is John Goodman. Tom Jr. is....Alec Baldwin, maybe?
XamberB Wrote:I always pictured Tom as John Goodman and someone like Walter Matthau as Abe.
Walter Matthau is dead.....
But if he's still alive, Jack Lemmon would play Jack. Surely, they are Odd Couple.
Maggers Wrote:Good question because it can mean different things to different people. I am at a loss to put it into words, because, for me, faces can look British for different reasons. This guy is so thin, and there's something about the width of his forehead and the narrowness of his lower face that, when put together, spell "British" for me. Often it's an aquiline nose and thin-to-nonexistent lips.
There's more to it, but that's the best I can do for now.
That's about what I was going to say. It's really hard to explain the exact features that add up to "That guy is English" for me, but it's definitely there.
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None. The light from the burning monastery is more than sufficient.
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Kenji Wrote:Abe is John Goodman...John Goodman is so NOT Jewish, for me any way. I don't see Goodman as Abe at all.
Judd Hirsch would make a great Abe, as would the INCREDIBLE Alan Arkin, if he wore a fat suit. Alan Arkin is thin and Abe, as we know, likes his Entenmanns.
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Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
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Maggers Wrote:John Goodman is so NOT Jewish, for me any way. I don't see Goodman as Abe at all.
Judd Hirsch would make a great Abe, as would the INCREDIBLE Alan Arkin, if he wore a fat suit. Alan Arkin is thin and Abe, as we know, likes his Entenmanns.
Maggers, you and I share a brain. I always see Judd Hirsch when I read Abe. Could be due to his role in ID though, but it just fits.
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AsMoral Wrote:Maggers, you and I share a brain. I always see Judd Hirsch when I read Abe. Could be due to his role in ID though, but it just fits.Poor, poor Maggers!
I could see Dennis Franz, maybe.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft