Gingerbread Man on 21/10/2010 at 16:21
Thompson hated the film, but liked Bill Murray. Rumor (and vague recollection of an HST interview) has it that Bill Murray was probably the only real, close friend Thompson had.
(edit: aha found the film comment)
Quote:
Bookpgsara: What did you think of Where the Buffalo Roam?
Hunter Thompson: Horrible pile of crap. Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing. Not to mention that I have to live with it. It's like go into a bar somewhere and people start to giggle and you don't know why, and they're all watching that fucking movie.
Scots Taffer on 22/10/2010 at 14:03
Terrible decision
Thirith on 22/10/2010 at 14:18
Why do you think so? Is he too specifically Tim/Arthur Dent/Doctor Watson? Or do you dislike him as an actor? (Just had a moment of reading the post as "Gordon Freeman cast as Bilbo". Or was that Morgan Freeman? Lester Freamon?)
Gingerbread Man on 22/10/2010 at 16:23
I love the idea of Martin Freeman cast as Bilbo. For one thing, he's as physically credible as a young Ian Holm as Ewan McGregor was a young Alec Guinness. I think so, at least.
Also I have only just last week finished watching The Office for the first time, and I'm just impressed with Freeman anyway.
Given that all I know of him is as Arthur and Tim, he seems a great choice to play another simple, normal, slightly too-cautious character thrust into the world of titanic consequence and frightful adventure.
nicked on 22/10/2010 at 17:43
Maaay not be able to pull off eccentric well enough to be Bilbo, but in Peter Jackson's capable hands, who knows?
quinch on 22/10/2010 at 17:46
I don't think Bilbo is eccentric is he? He's the sensible, steady centre the reader needs to be able to relate to. From what I remember anyway.
nbohr1more on 22/10/2010 at 18:18
Bilbo is suppose to be mostly a typical Hobbit which means that he doesn't like excitement or strangers and strongly inclined to avoid things that are not considered "normal" by other Hobbits. But he has a hidden inner-streak of adventurous spirit that he has always ignored until hoisted into action.
He and the Hobbits represent the dull, submissive, conformist society that Tolkien believed he lived in. Tolkien wanted his fellow Britons to be strong and adventurous like their pre-Norman forefathers whose culture was closer to Nordic warrior culture.
An anti-social, nebbish, conformist, with a humorous sense of curiosity and trouble-making is the prototype. Woody Allen? Larry David? (God NO! :laff: ...but that is the personality except less verbal)...
Scots Taffer on 22/10/2010 at 23:10
I don't rate him as an actor at all really. He's done the exact same thing in at least three different roles that I can remember.
