glloydd95 Wrote:Quite honestly, playing Jack is not about what he looks like to me. FPW has done such a masterful job in making him appear to be an everyman, that is how I picture him. In my mind's eye I sometimes picture him as a young Kevin Costner; sometimes more like Thomas Jane.
What is more important than what Jack looks like is being able to capture Jack's apparent split personality. When called upon, Jack can be without mercy and eliminate threats with cool professional precision without hesitation. Yet he possesses a subtle wit and style as he goes about making his repairs and has oddly humorous moments of introspection. That ability to shift gears from violent man to nice guy often reminds me of Martin Blank, John Cusack's character in the film Grosse Point Blank. Cusack has that ability to become a man very capable of violence yet talk about baseball or his favorite movie in his next breath.
Too bad John Cusack is also a tad too old to play Jack. He would be very good in the role.
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Now THAT is an interesting choice I had never considered. It is indeed too bad that he is 44 this year.
I will add, as well, that my current looks- right and has international box office appeal choice, Sam Worthington, has NOT shown much range in his recent roles.
You are bang-on that serious and brooding (scary) is not the only facet that actor-Jack must be able to portray.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout