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ok, so someone wants to make a movie of your life, right up until your ( untimely of course ) demise.
you have the choice of any actors to play the parts of key people, and yourself.
who do you choose?
and what is your movie called?

― donna (donna), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:39 (twenty-three years ago)

'no friends electric'

starring john cusack

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:40 (twenty-three years ago)

i have to think about it a bit more yet.

btw, your chosen stars dont have to look like you or yours, just be appropriate for the roles.

― donna (donna), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Starring:

Edward Norton, me
Brad Pitt, evil/sexy me

Co-starring:

Jennifer Lopez, childhood sweetheart #1
Natalie Portman, childhood sweetheart #2
Christina Ricci, adolescent long-term
Herbie the Love Bug, car that sadly kills me at age 21

in the amazing new blockbuster from Paramount:

12 Inches

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 28 October 2002 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Who do I pick as raver me? I think it's got to be Ardal O'Hanlon, his comic effect look is only one step away from "I'm so high/you're so high" type posturing.

A film about me would be about dance music and thus crap by default.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Not all films about dance music are crap!

Like, err, umm...

Ok.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Human Traffic!

(AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGH)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 28 October 2002 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone once told me I reminded him (personalitywise) of Dorothy Parker -- then later on he said I reminded him of Bette Davis. That said, I liked Jennifer Jason Leigh as Mrs. Parker, and she'd probably do a good job capturing my clinically cynical persona.

The title would be a symbol meant to be pronounced as a resigned grumble.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 October 2002 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hell?, starring anyone but Howard Stern as me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we think of an actor who resembles both Woody Allen and either the lead from The Shield or a Mitchell Brother?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, picking actors based on the following people's indignant denials of "I DO NOT LOOK LIKE THAT":

cher as my mother
whoever played cindy brady as my best friend at the age of five
lucy liu as a current best friend (unlike the others, she bears no resemblance)

and i can't think of a title

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm... I love this question!
I would be played by a brown-haired Drew Barrymore.
My bf would be played by John Cusack (not that I'm suggesting anything, Jim).
My kitty, Pepper, would be played by Ekaterina (even though Pepper's face is much much fatter).
The 2 guys in my band would be played by Toby Maguire and Jake Gillendhal (I'm totally screwing up these names).
My sisters: Catherine Keener & Ashley Judd.
Bjork would play my imaginary best friend.
James Spader would be in there somewhere...

The opening credits would definitely feature a Pixies song.
There would be lots of dancing, guitars, cats, and singing under one's breath.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 October 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I want my leading lady to be Hilary Swank.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Big Lebowski" has already been filmed.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

well bridget jones' diary has been done too...

this is definitely my movie but rachel griffiths would play me, because she'd have a more cynical destructive chaotic air than renee whatsername.

the role of the smooth and dasterdly hugh grant is played by my very english public school ex... is he famous yet?

i'm yet to meet my romantic saviour mark darcy... hurry up man.

excitingly, my movie is far from finished filming, i'm half way through the bottle of red that is my life....

god what a SOP.

― jayne (jayne), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

come on donna, i want to read the preview of the movie that is your life!!

― jayne (jayne), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the tagine to my movie wd be:

LUCRE JUST GOT FILTHIER

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i need to have liz taylor in there covering the last couple of years of my marriage ( reprising her role in 'virginia wolf' with richard burton playing my ex ).
bjork as a child plays me as one.
my movie is called " you must be fucking joking! right? "

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahaha, I asked my dad this question, except about me, not him, and he said "Julia Roberts should play you, of course" - I mean, the hell?? ANYWAY...

Katie Holmes plays me. Karen from Will & Grace plays Justine. She is my mentor and we drink a lot and go shopping. Tobey Maguire and Hyde from That 70s Show play Otis and Ramon. My mother should be played by Cher and my father by Matthew Perry (in current "heavy" mode). My two bosses are played by Bruce Willis and Russell Crowe. Robert Downey Jr. is in a cameo as the company owner's son. It's called "Hello, whatever" and probably resembles an Easton Ellis novel.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:50 (twenty-three years ago)

your mother's Cher too? amazing! she probably doesn't think of herself as very maternal, either.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie Holmes? Is your self esteem really that low?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i cant pick anymore to complete my movie, too many to decide upon and i keep changing them in my head.
so it has to change its name to 'unfinished masterpiece' or ' how to live a never-ending soap opera life' ( the latter being more appropriate ).

― donna (donna), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd be played by Sam Rockwell, for no good reason at all.

Like Sarah, I have a cat named Pepper, so she'd be played by a brown-haired Drew Barrymore; my other cat, Gretchen, would be played by Debi Mazar. That way, if the film does horribly, I can say, "Well of course, because all those shots of me framed by Debi Mazar and Drew Barrymore reminded people of Batman Forever, for Heaven's sake."

I keep a metal frog in front of my keyboard when I'm writing, named Albert. Albert would be played by Seth Green and clever use of blue-screen.

My ex would be played by Alicia Silverstone, because she'd get a kick out of that, and her fiance by Matthew Broderick.

It would be called Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo ... 2, and it would be consist of vaguely-related vignettes directed by David Fincher, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and startled but grateful David Cassidy.

Oh, the ass it would kick.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie Holmes? Is your self esteem really that low?

Yes. Though in all seriousness I can't think of very many actresses "of the correct age" who could do me even remotely well. Suggestions being taken as this was a HUGE DEBATE just two weeks ago (ie the "Julia Roberts of course!" bizarreness - then he also said someone named Tina Fay should play me, I have no idea what that man is smoking these days).

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tina Fey is DEAD ON.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

She's a real person? Who is she? I thought he made her up.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 31 October 2002 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

She's a writer/performer for Saturday Night Live.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/bios/Tina_Fey.html

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 31 October 2002 04:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Tina Fey, photo collage style:

http://www.tinafey.net/picturemain.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 October 2002 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

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