Twenty Actors, Twenty Pictures

This is a fairly old internet bloggy thing, but I haven't done it so I'm bringing it back out of the internet depths.

The rules are malleable, so here's my take: Twenty actors I will watch in anything, whose names inevitably give me that little jolt of delight when I spot them in the opening credits.

They're not the greatest actors of all time, some of them are more like guilty pleasures of mine, yet not all of them are great delicious hunks. I just love them. Also because it's their acting I love, I've chosen to present them through screenshots where they're in-character, rather than in beautiful promo shots - some from movies I love dearly, some from trash, but they all feature at least one memorable performance.

And because just naming twenty was so hard, I decided to not include actors I mostly known from television (which means no Patrick Troughton, DeForest Kelley, Michael K. Williams, etc.).

( Some beyond obvious, some new additions )

Haha, fooled you! Couldn't keep it under twenty-five. You probably wouldn't have noticed if I didn't tell you though.

As for the actors who very nearly made it: They were Hugh Jackman, Lee Marvin, Joseph Cotten, Knut Risan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dirk Bogarde, Kevin Kline, Raymond Massey, Bruce Willis, James Macavoy and Christopher Lee. Then of course are the ones that I love dearly but I honestly can't say I'll watch in anything - Buster Keaton's talkie sex comedies, any Bing Crosby Technicolour venture...


I plan to do the Twenty Actresses challenges some day, and I've been toying around with some kind of favourite supporting actors list. Meanwhile I've just recieved my very own PVR, and I've already have a massive movie backlist to get through thanks to TCM. Time to get watching!

Quick note

Norwegian telly's been showing the Going Postal TV movie from a few years back (David Suchet's gotta be on Norwegian telly every Easter in some form or another), and I just need to restate what I said back when I first saw it:

Casting Charles Dance as Lord Vetinari was a really, really, really ingenious idea.

And his costume is so gorgeous.

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Every Discworld movie adaptation has had its fair share of major flaws (in Going Postal it's the golems) but I've yet to see one that doesn't feature some little gleam of brilliance. Charles Dance and also Richard Coyle's beautiful birdlike profile makes it one of my favourite Discworld adaptions.

And just so I don't repeat my previous Going Postal post - the trumpet solo in the main theme is also brilliant.