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Great Cast Ensembles?
The movie may not be the greatest (though it's a favorite of mine). John Cusack gives one hell of a perfomance. The first time I saw it a lot of the actors were not so well known as they are today and they are some great charachter actors:
John Cusack Michael Madsen Benicio Del Toro Michael Rapaport Maury Chaykin James Gandolfini Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Sin City
Ocean's Eleven |
"Money for Nothing" is the movie that the OP was talking about, for those who may be wondering. If you want to see a great ensemble cast before most of them were household names, look no further than Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders."
Credited: Matt Dillon Tom Cruise Ralph Macchio Patrick Swayze Rob Lowe Emilio Estevez Leif Garrett Diane Lane Tom Waits Sofia Coppola C. Thomas Howell Another great ensemble that, though they're not stars, I feel I must mention: the young cast of Mean Creek. -JP |
A few of my favorites:
The Great Escape A Bridge Too Far Trainspotting Boogie Nights Elizabeth |
Help me out here...can someone define "ensemble" in terms of this thread? I mean I know what it means but then again I think I need to have an "official" definition.
I think the following would be a few of my choices: Cookie's Fortune Gosford Park Closer |
Ensemble in this case would mean a great cast of actors...a cast so great that you normally would only see one or two in a movie at a time, but in rare cases, you get a huge cast of acclaimed actors in one picture.
I bought Money for Nothing once for like...5 bucks and I bought it blind. One of the worst movies I've ever seen, hands down. Glengarry Glen Ross... (Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce, and Alec Baldwin) Magnolia... (Tom Cruise, John C Rielly, Phillip Baker Hall, Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and William H Macy) Crash... (Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Terrance Howard, Brendan Frasier, Larenz Tate, Don Cheadle, Ryan Phillippe, and yes...Tony Danza) = J |
Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
If you want to see a great ensemble cast before most of them were household names, look no further than Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders."
Ron Howard Cindy Williams Richard Dreyfuss Harrison Ford Kathleen Quinlan Mackenzie Phillips Candy Clark Charles Martin Smith Paul Le Mat Suzanne Somers |
Originally Posted by Tarantino
Ensemble in this case would mean a great cast of actors...a cast so great that you normally would only see one or two in a movie at a time, but in rare cases, you get a huge cast of acclaimed actors in one picture.
= J |
12 Angry Men
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World any Altman Movie Lone Star (heck, any Sayles film) |
Heat
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MMMM World is one I can think of.
Boogie Nights / Magnolia Any Tarantino film (although it embiggens the actors just for being in a Tarantino film) Ocean's Eleven/Twelve Magnificent Seven Great Escape Many of the Christopher Guest movies Anchorman's news-team fight scene Dogma |
The movie I watched last night: True Romance
Christian Slater Patricia Arquette Michael Rapaport Gary Oldman Christopher Walken Dennis Hopper Chris Penn Val Kilmer Brad Pitt Tom Sizemore James Gandolfini Samuel L. Jackson |
Cast of:
Big Chill Dead Poet's Society Romy and Michelle. Sure, a comedy but the cast is great. |
Pulp Fiction
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Originally Posted by NatrlBornThrllr
"Money for Nothing" is the movie that the OP was talking about, for those who may be wondering. If you want to see a great ensemble cast before most of them were household names, look no further than Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders."
Credited: Matt Dillon Tom Cruise Ralph Macchio Patrick Swayze Rob Lowe Emilio Estevez Leif Garrett Diane Lane Tom Waits Sofia Coppola C. Thomas Howell Another great ensemble that, though they're not stars, I feel I must mention: the young cast of Mean Creek. -JP Also forgot about True Romance and didn't even think of american Graffiti. :thumbsup: |
How about Batman Begins?
-Christian Bale -Morgan Freeman -Liam Neeson -Cillian Murphy -Michael Caine -Tom Wilkinson -Gary Oldman Not a bad group of actors. |
Magnificent Seven
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
Help me out here...can someone define "ensemble" in terms of this thread? I mean I know what it means but then again I think I need to have an "official" definition.
Originally Posted by Tarantino
Ensemble in this case would mean a great cast of actors...a cast so great that you normally would only see one or two in a movie at a time, but in rare cases, you get a huge cast of acclaimed actors in one picture.
Originally Posted by Giantrobo
Thanks Man. That's what I thought.
To the ensemble cast. "These young actors turned in performances so uniformly unselfish, and so intricately in tune with one another, that it became impossible to single any one of them out from their extraordinary achievement together. Their work is of such high quality that it moves beyond craft to achieve that mysterious truth and beauty that constitutes the finest acting." (nominating committee) Looking up the definition in Merriam Webster, it says what I'm trying to get across in one nice, short sentence: "Ensemble: a group producing a single effect." I could be wrong, but I just don't think that you need a "huge cast of acclaimed actors in one picture" to have an ensemble. I think you can have it anytime a group works so well together, taking cues off of one another and the like, that their work moves into a realm beyond individual performances. That's just my $0.02, though. -JP |
L.A. Confidential
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one i havent seen mentioned yet, and it doesnt surprise me because its often overlooked, is U Turn. The cast includes:
Sean Penn Nick Nolte Claire Danes Billy Bob Thornton Joaquin Phoenix John Voight Powers Boothe Jennifer Lopez (before she was big) |
The Royal Tenenbaums: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
Life Aquatic: Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum I Heart Huckabees: Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Isabelle Huppert, Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg, Naomi Watts |
copland.
top gun. |
Lord of the Rings
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The Firm
-Gene Hackman -Wilford Brimley -Ed Harris -Jeanne Tripplehorn -Holly Hunter -Gary Busey I can't name all the great actors in that movie, but this is one of the movies that a great assemble cast makes a pretty good movie a great one. |
One that I really like is Mars Attacks! Directed by Tim Burton and stars:
Michael J Fox, Jack Nicholson (in two rolls), Natalie Portman, Danny Devito, Jack Black (early role), Christina Applegate, Pierce Brosnan, Glenn Close, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Annette Bening and Luka Haas |
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