One of the biggest things I miss from our old site was the mock drafts that used to run every Friday. Those were fantastic time wasters, and a good one was a virtual guarantee that you were going to be far from productive at work, as your day instead degenerated into arguments with strangers over who would be the best Saturday cartoon character to have sex with, (and now we all know how that would go), or some other equally inane topic, all of which were still more important than that TPS report deadline your boss was yelling about. Good times.
Well, it’s been long enough. After a discussion in the back channels yours truly is bringing it back, with some slight rule changes. The old site had 4-5 main contributors, one of whom may not have been real. So they’d do 2-3 rounds themselves, then kick it to the kommentariat to draft whatever was left over. You can do that when you’ve only taken 10-15 of whatever topic was up for drafting. We, however, are a much more connected group when it comes to the writin’ and draftin’ of things, so if we did that we’d easily take out 30-50 before we threw the bedraggled leftovers to our beloved readership. That’s no fun. So these drafts will just leap right into it.
Also, for content and alliteration reasons, we’ve moved the draft to Monday mornings, so get ready to kill your productivity right from the start.
First come, first served, subject to my randomly assigning the first pick to someone else, generally because they came up with the idea. Or because they bribed me. For now, please wait 10 picks or 30 minutes before making another one.
This week’s subject comes from Twitter thread I’m involved in with some people from KSK and DFO, although I don’t think any of them are all that active around here these days. Maybe we should air out the Clubhouse? Eh, seems like work.
Anyhoo, one of them, Duchess to be exact, was talking about persons being perfectly case for roles. A couple of names and films were tossed back and forth and a lightbulb went off above my head. After replacing that bulb, and brushing the glass out of what’s left of my hair, I went back into the conversation and it would eventually occurred to me that this would be a good draft topic. I did tell them that I’d be using it, so perhaps one of more old friends will stumble by.
This week’s topic is an actor or actress you feel was perfectly cast in a movie or on a TV show. I’d say plays, too, but that seems like a waste on a group like us whose main ambition is to spend as much time inside as possible and as little of that time wearing pants as is possible. So movies and TV shows it is.
With the first pick of the draft I will take the actor and role that Duchess started the conversation with, James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.
Yeah, he’s the featured image, too. The casting was that good.
The rest of you are now on the clock,
No one, huh?
Yoink!
I guess no one did, despite your suggestion.
https://doorfliesopen.com/2021/08/09/monday-morning-mock-draft-chapter-the-xviii/comment-page-1/#comment-905944
I see Boyd Crowder got chose, how come no Raylan Givens??w=500
Loved ‘Justified’ and loved Olyphant in it, but I never had the feeling that he was doing something with the character that no one else could. And so much of that show was driven by other characters, especially Season 2 & 3, which for my money are the best of the 5 seasons.
I know that there are technically 6, but I refuse to acknowledge the 5th season as anything but a fever dream.
Ted Knight as Judge Elihu Smails
Ted Knight was such a great actor.
Nice pull. Such a great villain.
I’ll try to make up for crapping on Steve Martin’s Inspector Closseau, (and let’s not talk about those fucking parenthood movies he did), and I’ll draft him for The Jerk.
Didja ever see “Novocaine”?
I have not.
Mixed reviews, but I liked it a lot. Thought Steve was great in it.
Yes! He hates these cans!
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selena Meyer:
This flight is taking off and you guys are slower than the kid Britt Reid hit with his car after drinking a pony keg. So i leave you with two picks to space out over the time I’m in the air–
1) Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy
https://youtu.be/q3M_wBxZQpE
2) Peter Sellers as Inspector Closeau
If you think Steve Martin “did fine” then you need to reconsider.
Oh and since no one will pick her, I’ll add another:
Courtney Cox as Jules in Cougartown
I like Steve Martin, but he should have been arrested for what he did to the Pink Panther.
Not to mention Cyrano de Bergerac. Ghaaaaa.
Yeah, Steve has done great stuff, but he has also grabbed the money with both hands and done some absolute shyte.
Forgot about that one. He’s made some, shall we say, “questionable” choices in his films.
I did really like ‘Bowfinger’
David Lynch as Jack Dall on Louie.
Hey how come no one has picked Dr. Huxtable?
Cause he wasn’t perfectly cast. Darren Sharper could have easily played that role just as well.
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
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Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield.
Jeff Bridges as Lebowski…
I really liked Lebowski as Rooster Cogburn.
So did I, but John Wayne will always be “Rooster” to me.
Second this.
Couldn’t understand a word he said. Resort to subtitles!
I’m shocked this is still here
This is deep value
Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down. There’s nobody in the world that could make you root for Igby, really, but Culkin is probably the only person on earth who could make you feel sympathy for him.
I read Lonesome Dove before the miniseries came out. After seeing it, Robert Duvall will always be Augustus McCrae to me.
I felt that Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall were great choices, but they should’ve switched roles.
Clint Eastwood – Dirty Harry and yes, I know I just entered one but I have to be away from the PC for the rest of the afternoon
Paul Newman – Cool Hand Luke
Oof. I think we have a failure to communicate. It’s Strother Martin that kills it in that movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452XjnaHr1A&ab_channel=GuilhermeBarbosa
Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds:
This turned up on Request Line recently and I’d forgotten how fun it was.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GN-xVSlnWKQ
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Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNUu6Lf9mVU
I’ll take Hunter Henry in The Glass (tight end) Menagerie.*
*he hurt himself in practice today
I’d like to draft every single person from The Princess Bride, but since the killjoy commissioner is all “you can’t draft fourteen people with one pick” I’ll go with one of the leads: Westley.
Next he’ll tell us to never get involved in a land war in Asia. Pfft! Rules.
Inconceivable!
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Keep it up, Rikki, keep it up.
“We’ve secretly replaced Horatio’s hounds with adorable corgi puppies. Let’s see if he notices.”
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Casting Ed Asner as the gruff but lovable Santa in Elf was great.
Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton:
Michael Chiklis as Vic Mackey from The Shield. I didn’t think the commish had that performance in him.
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
Most would pick the Lamb movie as far as Jodie Foster is concerned but I really liked her turn in Inside Man. (please don’t tell me it was actually Rod Steiger) SPOILER CLIP-Her intelligence and uber-cynicism enables her to suss out what is actually going on and vaults her from a handler to one of the main players.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xM83Ebi3NQ&ab_channel=SammyBoateng
Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad!
Nobody stood in a corner quite like Mike.
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/THUD
I really can’t imagine anyone else as Ron Swanson besides Nick Offerman.
Also Air Buddy the dog from Air Bud
Lassie could have done it.
As could have Matt LeBlanc and/or the monkey from Ed.
Carroll O’Connor does the racist sheriff in In The Heat Of The Night to perfection. Just watch this scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HI5AQYUwg&ab_channel=lucylovesonline
That was Rod Steiger. Carrol O’Connor did the TV show.
You could just change the clip and then nobody will know what the hell I’m talking about.
Oh, fuck me. I knew that!
It’s just that Rod Steiger was so well cast that everyone mistakes him for our favoUrite racist, Archie Bunker
To be fairrrrr, Carrol O’Connor was cast perfectly as Rod Steiger in the show.