seriously though exactly how many roles has Morgan Freeman played where his character could be described as "wise" or "a seasoned veteran" or "jaded"

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what is the number of roles

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

including Along Came a Spider

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

see, he's old

da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

he was, like, born old

da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

you should see Street Smart if you want to see him in a different mode (you have to put up with Christopher Reeve in the lead, though).

da croupier, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

that guy is dead

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro

ogmor, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro
xpost heh

sleep, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Morgan Freeman roles don't fit into the magical negro thing you racists, now someone produce a number already

iiiijjjj, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

9

PhilK, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think the double shot of Glory and Driving Ms Daisy cemented his Watchful Negro Goodness schtick, but he's great in both of them. For mean Morgan go to Brubaker, Street Smart (the movie which prompted Pauline Kael to ask if he was the greatest American actor), Clean and Sober and Nurse Betty.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.joyfantastic.com/images/tshirts/upclose/easyreader.gif

Mr. Que, Saturday, 29 September 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

how many are before, and how many are after, he went gray?

gabbneb, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

The answer to the title question should be Se7en, just for lols.

slugbuggy, Saturday, 29 September 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

how many are before, and how many are after, he went gray?

I read this frist as "he went gay," which puts a new gloss on Se7ven and Million Dollar Baby.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 29 September 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

does this include god

Frogman Henry, Saturday, 29 September 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

god is definitely a seasoned veteran

max, Sunday, 30 September 2007 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

and possibly jaded as well.

Roz, Sunday, 30 September 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

I mentioned this on some other thread too, the guy is basically more typecast than any other "serious" Hollywood actor.

Tuomas, Sunday, 30 September 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

how many films has morgan freeman worn a hat in?

, Sunday, 30 September 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

American actor Morgan Freeman has worn a hat in precisely six (6) films.

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

more like sixty!

, Sunday, 30 September 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

in how many films does he hold that hat to his chest, while shaking his head in a jaded manner?

darraghmac, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/08/21/freeman-and-fincher-rendezvous-for-sci-fi-space-thriller/

Catsupppppppppppppp dude ่Œ„่•ƒ, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

in the Affleck movie, his image is used savvily

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

how smug do ppl look when they trot out the "magical negro" thing

s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

his whiskers in Dreamcatcher are insane, like everything else in that flick

latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.reelfilm.com/images/stsmart.jpg

Street Smart is his best.

Man, I want to write a movie where Freeman and Denzel are both playing bad guys.

Eazy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

er...

http://www.reelfilm.com/images/stsmart.jpg

Eazy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

i love the implication that Hollywood is wrong to not give him more roles where he's a stupid, wide-eyed new recruit.

da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

40% smug

remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Seeing the preview for the new bucket movie, I wondered how long it's been since there was a Morgan Freeman movie without a Morgan Freeman voice-over.

Eazy, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Morgan Freeman IS Forrest Gump.

da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

why wouldn't you want a Morgan Freeman voiceover? He's got the bossest voice this side of Alec Baldwin

remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

correction: 'twas his eyebrows that were insane in Dreamcatcher

http://movies.go.com/i/bios/galleries/morganfreeman/freemanmovie_5.jpg

latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Morgan Freeman/Kathleen Turner phone sex would make a MINT.

xpost wtf

HI DERE, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

i would like a blanket made from those

remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

'100% genuine freeman brow'

remy bean, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

i want to believe he just showed up with those on and nobody dared to bring them up.

da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

"I feel that this character... needs EYEBROWS."

HI DERE, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

everybody should see him dancing to the Stones in Edison Force. If they accidently find themselves watching Edison Force.

da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

The best part is that the Freeman eyebrow pic only scrapes the surface of the endless well of insanity that is Dreamcatcher

latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

Does everyone have those eyebrows (including the ass weasels)?

HI DERE, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

In Edison Force, he basically pushes Justin Timberlake (an upstart reporter for his small-press paper) out of his house and then proceeds to imitate Cosby finding a giant freezer full of pudding pops to "Street Fighting Man" or something.

x-post my favorite scene is when Jason Lee HAS to try and get a toothpick off the ground without letting the ass demon out of the toilet. No waiting for Thomas Jane to come back with the tape, he NEEDS that toothpick!

da croupier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

x-post

that's the only thing i could think of that would make that movie any more batshit

latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/filename_2_8.jpg

latebloomer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

AND SO IS WERNER HERZOG AMIRITE?!?!?

i would like to see morgan freeman as a pimp, it would probably be a revelation given the (as acknowledged in this thread) EXTREMELY limited range of character types he's played in the past 15-20 years. sometimes in those recent films he shows flares of anger and it's quite tantalizing.

amateurist, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Arctic_tale.jpg

El Tomboto, Thursday, 7 August 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

i don't want him to play a little girl StanM you psychopath,

I was j/k

Meanwhile: released from hospital, divorcing. (???)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7546976.stm

StanM, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

gone baby gone played off his typecasting, somewhat

Jordan, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

O_o

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/morgan-freeman-to-marry-his-step-granddaughter-486028/

StanM, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

waht

her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

Tinchy Freeman.

The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

[i]A few weeks ago, a disturbing story broke that Morgan Freeman was maintaining a 10-year relationship with his step-granddaughter with whom he had a questionable sexual encounter when she was young.[i]

O_O

enbba champions (omar little), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

Seriously creepy.

Alex in SF, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

well i suppose this has kind of a "seasoned veteran" aspect to it, just in all the wrong ways

Bo-rad Crewcial Overdrive (jjjusten), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

congratulations to the groom(er)

enbba champions (omar little), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:50 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know if the veteran is the one that has been seasoned in this relationship.

her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

he has a new movie coming out this year called "the maiden heist" !!

velko, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:53 (sixteen years ago)

http://9.media.tumblr.com/J13B6ARo4olzn7ycLzSc7q6ho1_250.gif

The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Friday, 10 July 2009 17:57 (sixteen years ago)

This cover suddenly looks way creepy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/March_of_the_penguins_poster.jpg/200px-March_of_the_penguins_poster.jpg

StanM, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

defrosted and seasoned?

http://www.younghollywoodhof.com/drina/l.l..jpg

xpost

da croupier, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

This is totally the kind of scandal that could damage a young man's promising career, so good thing he's seventy-fucking-two and probably rich as fuck

da croupier, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

as fuck

Mark G, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

Really we should all just be glad that Morgan's step-grandaughter has found her special someone and not be mean about the fact that he's desicated old fuck.

Alex in SF, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

Actually makes Gone Baby Gone ending even creepier too.

Alex in SF, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:09 (sixteen years ago)

million dollar baby

velko, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

driving miss daisy (to the incest paedo party!)

enbba champions (omar little), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXUY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

...to sit down beside her.

da croupier, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Dudes. STEP-granddaughter. Not incest.

CREEPY AS FUCK.

But not incest. Just sayin'.

Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Actor Credits


* Guilty By Association
* High Crimes
* The Sum of All Fears
* Under Suspicion
* Deep Impact
* Kiss the Girls
* Unforgiven

velko, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

dude has always been pretty boring as an actor

don't really care about this altho it is weird/creepy

Sleep Causes Cancer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:19 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe he'll be in the next Woody Allen movie.

faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:19 (sixteen years ago)

rule number one if you are about to marry your step-grandaughter: DON'T EVER FUCKING DO THIS!

scott seward, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:26 (sixteen years ago)

the dude is an excellent actor though he's so comfortable onscreen than he just kinda does his thing without much effort most of the time, so it's not especially exciting. p.s. someone get shakey the 'double jeopardy'/'kiss the girls' two-fer on dvd.

enbba champions (omar little), Friday, 10 July 2009 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

(xpost) somewhere Woody Allen is going "[i]that's just wrong...[/1]"

snoball, Friday, 10 July 2009 18:41 (sixteen years ago)

ROFL comment from somewhere else:

"it's going to be the longest night of her life"

StanM, Friday, 10 July 2009 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

didn't read the whole thread, just checking to ask if shakey cares about this?

dr. morb's adventures beyond the ultraworld (s1ocki), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:45 (sixteen years ago)

he said upthread he didn't care, so u know

in tranny mariah (Matt P), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

Shakey doesn't care, guys.

faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:48 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry for the revive, everyone. I thought Shakey cared.

StanM, Friday, 10 July 2009 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

thanks, just needed confirmation on that

dr. morb's adventures beyond the ultraworld (s1ocki), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:54 (sixteen years ago)

that's okay ... I've revived threads Shakey doesn't care about either.

faucet that ass (sarahel), Friday, 10 July 2009 21:54 (sixteen years ago)

FREEMAN WON'T WED STEP-GRANDDAUGHTER

MORGAN FREEMAN's publicist has dismissed new reports the movie star is to wed his step-granddaughter.
U.S. tabloid the National Enquirer claims the Shawshank Redemption star, 72, is romancing 27-year-old Eโ€™Dena Hines, and the couple is planning to wed once the actor's divorce from his second wife Myrna Colley-Lee is final.
But Freeman's spokesman, Dave Falkenstein, insists the story is, "complete garbage."

velko, Saturday, 11 July 2009 04:05 (sixteen years ago)

We don't care, Frankenstein.

StanM, Saturday, 11 July 2009 07:08 (sixteen years ago)

they just wanted some fun with inversion! if not now, when?

tehresa, Saturday, 11 July 2009 07:23 (sixteen years ago)

young falkenstein

dr. morb's adventures beyond the ultraworld (s1ocki), Saturday, 11 July 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

does Shakey care now?

faucet that ass (sarahel), Saturday, 11 July 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)

young shakenstein

dr. morb's adventures beyond the ultraworld (s1ocki), Saturday, 11 July 2009 17:12 (sixteen years ago)

they just wanted some fun with inversion! if not now, when?

โ€• tehresa, Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:23 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

nehw

bentley cadence (gbx), Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

bumping for shakey

there is the theory of the morbius (omar little), Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

omar, shakey doesn't care.

tehresa, Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

shakey doesn't care about bumping, he's got a baby already.

faucet that ass (sarahel), Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:20 (sixteen years ago)

Shakey No Carer

why is Barack Obama rarely seen dancing (hmmmm), Saturday, 11 July 2009 20:12 (sixteen years ago)


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