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Movie anoraks like me will know this already, but did those of you with a life know that Casablanca was originally going to star Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan?
Casting decisions are way more important than some auteur-directors like to think, IMHO. Not always of course, I mean would anyone have noticed if Emilio Estevez had played Hot Rod in The Transformers: The Movie instead of Judd Nelson? Probably not. But in a lot of these old classics (and so-called classics) it's the casting that really makes it great, or at least helps it to stick in the memory. Imagine if it had been Woody Allen instead of Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. But that's an obvious and not very funny example.
PLease try and think of a funnier and more imaginative one than that, and win a major prize! Well ... a laugh from me which you can't hear 'cos we're on the internet. Sigh.
Btw, feel free to jump across the time-stream, so you could have Sarah Michelle Gellar in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, even though she hadn't been born yet. |
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