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Here's the picture.

Anthony Hopkins is a single father, mourning the death of his son. His son's fiance joins him in their big lonely home. Anthony Hopkin's is aided by a foreign servant from his military days, and sometimes rocks and awesome fur coat. His other son is tormented by a bestial nature, and is in trouble with the law.

What movie is this?

Can you make a similarly detailed description of a movie(s)?

 EDIT: See Rules in Post 7!

DF Shadow said:

Just curious, but has anyone here on the forums ever suggested or made a thread suggesting a single edit out the 3 prequels?

I feel like it's an idea that's been kicked around before but didn't see anything similar under 'search'.

 http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Star-Wars-Prologue-Epic-Prequel-Edit/topic/9004/

Only the bestest fan edit EVAR thank you very much. One that was too good for this site.

Bingowings said:

Jeremy Brett was a missed opportunity :

 

WHAT IS THIS!!?!? WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS!?!?!?

THIS THREAD NEEDS PICS!!

COUNT DRACULAS???

MICHAEL FASSBENDER

JONATHON RHYS MYERS

JASON ISAACS

CHARLES DANCE

CHRISTOPHER ECCELSTON

Of the bunch, Dance is oldest and Rhys Myers is youngest (is that like, one last name? Or a middle name? What is with you British!?!?) County does do a lot of age changing. Eccelston has (IMHO) the best Countly profile... but I look at Rhys Myers and see "eyes burning red like Judas in Hell" or however Harker describes him.

walkingdork said:

 

How can people see three major religions all follow the first 5 books from the Old Testament and say they are talking about a different God? I think some of you guys are really trying to split hairs here.

 

Splitting hairs is what religion is about.

How else can Anglicans have killed Catholics and vice-versa. They're like the same religion! Mahayana and Theravada Buddhists have murdered eachother over right teaching. Look what Protestants did the Mormons. Hell, SOUTHERN Baptists don't like regular Baptists.

You draw a line (for example, transubstantiaton) and burn anyone who crosses it.

The Toph (as his pals call him) makes a good point about the educational aspect of making a fan edit.

You learn TONS about basic filmmaking doing this. Story, pacing, editing, sound...  and without the cost of producing a epic motion picture.

I learned more from my crappy re-edit of the TV show "Kindred The embraced" than I did from my film classes in college.

Might be interesting. Pity he cant release it under a secret net handle.

Bingowings said:

Let's see.

Dracula : I've long wished Charles Dance would play him, he could still play old Drac but it's difficult to tell what make up and a bit of digital trickery would do to make him into his rejuvenated form. Christopher Eccleston could do the job well I think, he has the cheek bones. Maybe Jason Issacs too.

Mina : Jessica Brown Findlay.

Arthur : Dan Stevens.

Jack : Benedict Cumberbatch

I considered but passed on Dan Stevens as Arthur, almost because he's a little too "on the nose" from his role on "Downton Abbey." (and I just now learned he already played Arthur! I didn't know that!)

Charles Dance as the Count could work. My first thought of him is always as The Phantom of the Opera... so you get a little "horror icon" cache, although he is a bit long in the tooth (no pun intended).

I like that we both picked supporting sister's from "Downton Abbey" as Mina.

Cumberpatch would be a swell Seward.

As for Rutger being too physical... give him a cane! Solved!!

"In college no one walks around the class and makes you work!"

"No one even cares if you come to class in college!"

As a public school teacher, just once I'd love to hear the above complaints from a student who has a chance of actually getting to college.

DRACULA: TheBoost's fantasy cast for 2012

Count Dracula: Jonathon Rhys Myers (The Tudors)
 A good mix of menace and sex appeal. In fact, so much sex appeal that the film wont have to waste any time on the "Dracula is sexy" trope all other adaptations have done. Just his presense will cover that, and he can go about being evil.

Jonathon Harker: Garrett Hedlund (Tron 2)
 A real leading man, action hero type. This heightens his character's brokenness after his escape from the castle.

Mina Murray: Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey)
 Carmichale, from "Downton Abbey" is elegant, lovely, and has a great smile that hints at layers beneath her proper veneer, without having to slap you in the face with it like the talentless Winona Rider.

Abraham Van Helsing: Rutger Hauer
 The man was born for it. He's even Dutch... I think. Didn't bother to look it up.

Mr. Renfield: Christopher Eccelston (Doctor Who)
 I think Eccelston's intensity and energy could make Renfield scary, not just funny, and be contrasted strongly with his gentleness later in the tale.

Lucy Westenra: Erica Durance (Smallville)
 Lucy needs to be two things: instantly loveable and later, scary sexy. I think TV's Lois Lane, with her adorable dimples, could pull it off nicely.

The Suitors: With so many characters it's important to make sure each is very distinct in appearance and manners. That guided my choices.

Arthur Holmwood/Lord Godalming: Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian)
 Pretty to the point of being almost girly, Barnes contrasts nicely with Harker and we can see why Lucy picks him.
Dr. Seward: Matt Smith (Doctor Who)
 A Doctor playing a Doctor, Smith is charismatic and charming, while not being good looking.
Quincy Morris: Jason Segel (The Muppets)
 While Segal has very little serious drama to his credit, I think he'd be a natural for the rangy Texan. And he's huge, which is nice.

zombie84 said:

Sinbad... And the Eye of the Tiger, i think?

 I think youre right. I get those confused and am too lazy to look it up.

I was too lazy to walk to the pantry this morning and get a grown up cereal, so I poured my son and myself a bowl of Lucky Charms.

It was gross.

Thanks guys. I think outside the cast and our wives, you might be the first people to watch this thing since we debuted it in our dorm in '99.  :)

Making a movie with the 'all in one take' method of old was frustrating, but looking back, little synergies and coincidences are what it's all about.

The only idea we had going in was "slasher killer kills college kids." In fact, IIRC we wanted him to wear a scary gas-mask, but the guy who was going to lend us his gas-mask left, and we had to make the "Laughing Man Killer" mask out of a t-shirt sleeve and magc markers... but in the end it's a whole lot cooler.

James (the black dude) was the on duty RA, and couldn't leave the building, but worked out great for the plot.

The "Hippies Watching TV" scene, my favorite, was not some brilliant idea. It was becuase the dudes in it actually got stoned and didn't want to go and do whatever scene we had actually thought of first.

If I was a bit more like Gerge Lucas I'd claim this was all my original vision and not lucky breaks and clever collaborators.

This is less about how the visuals were achieved, but about the lack of passion put into them.

Think of how awesome the following should have looked

• A guy fighting with two lightsabers at once.
• A lightsaber duel in the dark.
• A guy fighting a four-armed monster each arm wielding a lightsaber.

The lightsabers in the dark I fantasized about in the 80s. When I was in middle-school I made an art project called "Jedi Fighting In a Cave" with a piece of black construction paper, whiteout, and highlighter pens.

Yet all three ammount to nothing. Nothing memorable or exciting. They all last for less than ten seconds.

I think the commentary on the ROTS DVD said that they couldn't figure out how to do a four-armed sword fight, resulting in Grievous losing two arms in 9 seconds.

Ray Harryhausen did in with STOP MOTION in 1973!!!

What should have been these extremely fun and visual fights almost result in just a throwaway joke.

doubleofive said:

Which one are you?

 I was holding the camera, so I only have a cameo as "Chaz" they guy with the book and bad ponytail.

Not to derail the thread, but how do Lucas-apologists (TFNers... whatever we call them) value McQuarrie?

At the very least his awesome image of Vader is the reason Vader has a mask. How can that be acknowledged whilst still holding with Lucas's 'original intent' stories?

Will the ForceCast this week say, "McQuarrie was a guy who drew exactly what George told him straight from George's mind"?

Well, here it is. The Special Edition of 1999's greatest 11 min horror spoof ever made in my dorm... TWO SCOOPS OF TERROR!!!!

The world has lost a brilliant artist. He contributions to much of the art I love cannot be overstated.

Some elegant solutions to a muddled narrative. I could see many of these choices as improving the finished film had they been implemented.

Well this is officially dead. My collegue has consistently missed every deadline he's set for this project for the last five months. He even claimed to have posted auditions online, but somehow they were invisible. Drat.

I think the idea has some potential, but I myself do not have the overarching passion for it to be the driving force behind an audiodrama production.

I might take the two complete scripts and the two outlines, and maybe write a fan-fiction novella or something.

TV's Frink said:

This isn't really what I meant, so I'll back up.

Why do the guys and gals have to be separated on those shows anyway?

 Dont want to encourage fornication. America has SOME standards.

georgec said:

What do people think of the alleged similarities among Jesus, Horus (Egyptian god), Buddha, Krishna, and Mithra (Zoroastrian)?

Some believe the stories of these deities and religious figures to have common roots.

http://www.sanfords.net/Framed_pages/origins_of_christianity.shtml

http://seandharmon.webs.com/jesusmithrahorus.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U1Grl4HSRU

 

 C3P? already said it, but those are absolute tear inducing BS. I'm curious where, since SIN is not a Hindu concept, the authour found Krishna called the Sin Bearer?

While there are certain similarities that might be worth noting, since Buddhism and Christianity (for example) are so totally different, I'm not sure what these people are trying to do with their lists other than create confusion and delay.

This vageuly reminds me of the "Da Vinci Code." They make a claim that the Mayans (IIRC) had a divine image of a mother and child, and this was clearly the inspiration for Jesus and the Virgin Mary... not explaining how to unconnected cultures influenced eachother, or why a mother holding a baby isn't just a universal image.

 This question could easily go to anyone of a broad swath of Christian faiths.

Does it bother you that most of the people you know and interact with everyday are going to burn in hell for all eternity? It would bug the HELL out of me.

When you're in heaven, will you ever think, "I wonder how Boost and Bingowings are doing... oh yeah, they're suffering infinite torment for all eternity." and then go back to strumming your harp? I'm not sure I could enjoy heaven knowing that, if somehow I end up there.

Id love to see a new Cannonball Run, with each car being comedy teams from more recent years.

Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller

The Mighty Boosh guys.

A couple Super Troopers.

The Wayans Brothers.

Shia LeBouf and Bumblebee