can anyone name a movie where Charlton Heston was, you know, different?

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as in, i just saw "touch of evil" last night (with awesomely fat Orson Welles), and Charlton Heston was essentially himself, as he always is. this is cool in its own way, i mean, i can't imagine anyone else screaming indignantly at apes, or screaming indignantly about soilent green, but did he ever take a big chance as an actor and play a junkie or something?

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

can anyone name a movie where Humphrey Bogart was, you know, different?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/32/09/80m.jpg

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

hes a junkie in waynes world 2 but his long sleeves cover the needle marks

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

You mean a movie where he plays a faygela?

― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

but heston is different in "touch of evil"! he plays a mexican!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

ding ding ding!! we have a winner!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

he played an egyptian jew in the 10 commandments

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

can anyone name a movie where Humphrey Bogart was, you know, different?

The movies he did with Cagney where he was just a pathos-less sleazeball.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

He plays Charlton Heston with some dark makeup in Touch of Evil. That's different.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

anybody ever seen that movie where john wayne plays genghis khan?

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i can imagine dr morbius insinuating its my favorite film in retaliation for saying i dont like the whole nine yards or something

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

wasn't that the one where everyone got cancer from the bomb testing nearby? the conqueror? (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

ive only seen The Maltese Falcon, so i dont know enough about Bogart to comment. But take Jack Nicholson: he has a very definate persona that seems to be around in every film he's in, but that persona has a range.

Heston, on the other hand, reminds me of Will Ferrell's impression of Robert Goulet. Everytime.

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Haha no but I've seen The King of Kings. . . *drawls* "This maaan is truly the son 'a God. . ."

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

He plays Charlton Heston with some dark makeup in Touch of Evil.

ie, "mexican"!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

omega code

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

hahaha i mean omega man!

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

what if heston was in omega code!

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Heston was more limited than Bogart was.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

you mean omega man? (haha xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i remember seeing the video box for that when i was a kid and thinking that charlton heston played mega man

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

"o mega man!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Plot Summary for
The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)

Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in World War II. In order to communicate German movements to the Allies, he uses carrier pigeons fitted with messages. As he grows more and more in love with the daughter of the family he stays with, the father accidentally feeds the pigeons to his family for Easter Dinner.

― andy --, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Do you guys remember that movie where he plays Michelangelo? I forget the name of it, but I just remember him screaming over and over at people, "IT WILL BE DONE...WHEN IT'S DONE" when they'd be all in his grill about the damn ceiling taking forever.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Heston also apparently played "french" in one of the Three Musketeer's movies. Not just any actor could do that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Haha THE AGONY AND THE ECSTACY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

i came this close to recasting the mega man series with old actors but i punched myself in the crotch instead

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

can anyone name a movie where Charles Bronson was, you know, different?

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

http://media.gamestats.com/gg/image/MegaMan3_NESBOXboxart_160w.jpg
FROM MY COLD, DEAD ARM!!

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

did you know charles bronson's birth name is actually charlton bronson?

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Really, Mr. Heston has had a wide and varied array of roles, and I think this is proving his very large thespian range. French, Mexican, Italian, Jewish Egyptian. This is really your go to guy. They should cast Heston in the Geisha film.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

he was a mastiff for chrissakes!!

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

did he ever play an asian guy

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

i mean besides mega man

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

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― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

try "chinee"

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Megaman 2 had a weird ending... it is implied he lives in a village.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

mega my lai

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Where the hell you expect Megaman to live?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

megalopolis

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

with his megamom!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

i miss Megaman. I think three was the best, but i don't remember.

and the correct answer is "mega man lives in all of us."

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I kinda thought he was Dr. Light's poolboy....

Also, he can remove his helmet and has wires for hair.

Also, 3 was not the best. 2 was. I owned both. 3 was good, but 2 had better music, pacing, bosses and was just SOLID.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

2 = best game of all time

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

hands down

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Charlton Heston was, you know, different in Bowling For Columbine.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

mega man x4 for sega saturn

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Also, he can remove his helmet and has wires for hair.

OK I gotta say this is like the cutest thing you've ever said, Jon. I imagine you saying it very excitedly.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

i think heston would make a good dr wiley

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

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but is Affleck smarter than 80 of our senators? I fear yes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Dude, even the Matt Damon puppet from Team America is smarter than Tom Coburn

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

i like affleck a lot

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Affleck is definitely smarter than most of our senators.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I like how between like one minute I decided that, no, Affleck is not as douchey as Ethan Hawke.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

He has poker in his past, though. We can't elect gambling addicts.

― andy --, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

but cokeheads are ok????

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

ethan hawke is a bad person

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

imagine affleck in training day!!!

― oooh, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

That would've been a LOT better.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Ethan Hawke is really kind of the worst person in Hollywood.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I can think of a lot worse.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

BEcause of this thread, I have had the opening music for Mega Man II stuck in my head for like half an hour on loop. Ba didida didida da daaaa, di da da da da daaaa. You know, you can download programs that will emulate the NES xound chip alone, and then get the nes sound and music files from ocremix.org, and then make pristine audiofile recordings of your favorite tunes? Also, The Advantage is coming out with another album of nintendo covers in I think January.

Ba didida didida da daaaa, di da da da da daaaa.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 2 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

THIS IS AMAZING

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I really can't think of anyone who hits all of the worst things possible as much as Ethan Hawke. I mean, who else? Maybe, like, Jennifer Garner?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

awesomely fat Orson Welles

I'm fairly sure he was padded in TOE. The big weight boom came a bit later.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I really can't think of anyone who hits all of the worst things possible as much as Ethan Hawke.

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5014/vincentgallo0fb.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

arrgh I take it all back, I take it all back.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

hahaha ultimate trump card.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I would just like to state for the record that I know who Ed Wynn is and I love him.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Ohhh my goodneth! Do you remember him saying "THUH MANN CALLED JEESUS" after Max von Sydow opened his eyes?

Hey, Heston was in The Greatest Story too, as the Baptist! Surly as ever, in a bearskin or some shit!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

The day Ethan Hawke directs a Brown Bunny, let me know.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

The Jungle Book?

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I mean "Maugli".

― Soledad (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

I actually like Ben Affleck a lot in contexts that do not involve him with Jennifer Lopez or acting in a movie without Matt Damon!

― Dan (Bring On The Political Career) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Ed Wynn wath the mathter of the lithping thchool of ACTING! He was in some cool Twilight Zone episodes too...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

(James Millhollin is another favorite - unfortunately I don't have a good pic of him... and I don't think he was ever in any Biblical epics, tho I can see him doing a great Pilate)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

(with awesomely fat Orson Welles), and Charlton Heston was essentially himself

http://img.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/16000/16100/16185-03.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

But have you dropped by a Right To Life nutcase office and watched the anti-abortion documentary "The Silent Scream" with narration by Charlton Heston?

I have, and it was a creeeeeeeeepy situation: the film, the voiceover, the little plastic fetus dolls they give out for free, the whole thing.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 3 December 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

can anyone name a movie where Humphrey Bogart was, you know, different?

The Return of Doctor X

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 3 December 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I know who Ed Wynn was - he was Keenan's dad.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Saturday, 3 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Bogart being different BEFORE he became a star lead (High Sierra, I think) shouldn't count. I mean jeez, he played an IRISH STABLEHAND in Dark Victory.

I keep forgetting that Ed Wynn was the "Love to Laugh" guy in Mary Poppins, so ppl know him from that if not by name. Less from his Fire Chief character in '30s radio I spose.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 December 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

I still think this is one of the funniest Biblical epic scenes ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6LHWyaeEHY&feature=related

Even SCTV was barely able to match it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W89LSlBblg&feature=PlayList&p=E081EFF0D3B0E291

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

"charlton heston is a wooden actor" has been a meme since the 1950s!

― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

i mean, he is, but he's also... charlton heston. let's see YOU try to be charlton heston.

― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

BOGDANOVICH: I thought he was very good in [Touch of Evil].

WELLES: We rehearsed for two weeks before we shot, and he was an absolute soldier all the way through. I think he has the makings of a great heroic actor. And I don't know what movies may lead him into doing, but he has all the equipment -- the voice, the physique, the intelligence, and everything -- he's a big American heroic actor. If he isn't, then it's the movies' fault or the theatre's fault for not giving him enough to do.

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:48 (fifteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

OW MY EYES... http://vimeo.com/9819387

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 13 February 2011 08:08 (fourteen years ago)

I got 57 seconds in on full screen, that's enough of that thanks.

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 13 February 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

ten commandments is on tv. jeez, what a hambone

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 31 March 2013 02:15 (twelve years ago)

he's good in hamlet

― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 31 March 2013 02:30 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

Heston underplays (for him) in Khartoum, but it's hard to care unless you're into the British Empire. And then there's Olivier, who clearly worked hard on his Sudanese accent to register through the blackface...

Some nifty spectacle in 70mm, which is how i saw it last night.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 August 2016 15:07 (nine years ago)

four years pass...

so the jews spend 3 hours and 45 minutes trying to escape from yul brynner, they finally do in a huge climactic setpiece that ties all the dramatic threads together and brings everything to a nice satisfying close. Then in the last five minutes of the movie the jews are having a wild party to blow off steam, god tosses charlton heston some commandments, heston yells at everybody, a bunch of them get blown up(!), v/o tells us theyre all punished to wander for 40 years... thats when they roll credits? Who wrote this thing?

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:28 (four years ago)

whole business with the commandments should have been a post-credits bonus sequence imho

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:30 (four years ago)

I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't point out that Heston cheats on his wife in Earthquake which, by his on-screen standards, is "different."

― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:34 (four years ago)

A reminder that The Ten Commandments is bat shit and awesome in every sense.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:35 (four years ago)

all these years i had no idea vincent price was in it, totally delightful every time he was onscreen, offed way too early. feel like he must have been watching cedric hardwicke & thinking about how much fun he'd have with that role

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:48 (four years ago)

"Your eyes had best find the Deliverer, Datha, or you will have no eyes."

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:58 (four years ago)

*Dathan

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 April 2021 14:58 (four years ago)

A reminder that The Ten Commandments is bat shit and awesome in every sense.

Yes, from my limited experience the only remotely watchable Biblical epic.

― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2021 15:02 (four years ago)

Medieval Charlton? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9jGTDFAneQ

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 5 April 2021 15:03 (four years ago)

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