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Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Jim DiEugenio - 08-10-2015
I am reading Talbot's book right now.
It is good so far.
It looks like we finally got a full length no holds barred biography of Allen Dulles.
Something that was really needed.
God, if only someone makes a movie out of this.
Tony Hopkins as Dulles?
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Magda Hassan - 08-10-2015
Tom Hanks? ::laughingdog::
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Albert Doyle - 08-10-2015
Magda Hassan Wrote:Tom Hanks? ::laughingdog::
Good type-casting.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Tracy Riddle - 08-10-2015
I remember Sam Waterston's amazing performance as Richard Helms in NIXON, though he's not even credited at IMDB because the scene was deleted (but it's available on the DVD!). Somebody of his caliber would be needed to play Dulles, but with that patrician Ivy League air. Give Patrick Stewart some hair and glasses and he might be perfect.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Jim DiEugenio - 09-10-2015
How about a little casting against type?
Jon Voight.
Although politically, he and Dulles are not that far apart.
Joe McBride should chime in on this, since very few people know more about movies than he does.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Joseph McBride - 09-10-2015
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:How about a little casting against type?
Jon Voight.
Although politically, he and Dulles are not that far apart.
Joe McBride should chime in on this, since very few people know more about movies than he does.
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Thank you kindly, Jim. I would have said Will Geer (as in EXECUTIVE
ACTION). He's playing H. L. Hunt, but maybe they were thinking of Allen Dulles as well. Wilford Brimley is still with us at age 81 and might be
perfect, with that faux avuncular charm. I hope Wilford is doing OK. And if Robert Redford can
be a twinkly Dan Rather in a movie that valorizes him, I guess he could do it with makeup and a pipe, mumbling his lines,
as long as they don't tell him he's supposed to be a villain. When James Caan
(not the sharpest tool in the toolbox; I worked with him) saw EL DORADO and realized he was funny, he asked Howard Hawks how that
happened, and Hawks said if I had told you to try to be funny, you wouldn't have been. Jon Voight is an interesting
choice (he's actually a right-winger and might get into the part), but he is terrible as FDR in the worst
movie I've ever seen, PEARL HARBOR, especially when he jumps to his feet at a cabinet meeting. He was
great in COMING HOME, though that was long ago. I like casting against type; it makes people think
and brings about unusual work. Sam Waterston (François Truffaut's favorite American actor) is sensationally good as Helms in
the NIXON director's cut. What a great sequence that is, the heart of the movie actually. And, of course,
Tony Hopkins can play anyone, as can Cate Blanchett.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Magda Hassan - 09-10-2015
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:How about a little casting against type?Actually, Jon Voight can play a really good menacing dark brooding character. Not so against type and the politics fits like a glove. I'm sure he'd feel honoured to take the role.
Jon Voight.
Although politically, he and Dulles are not that far apart.
Joe McBride should chime in on this, since very few people know more about movies than he does.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Magda Hassan - 09-10-2015
Joseph McBride Wrote:And, of course,Gary Oldman. He takes on a character so entirely I can no longer see the actor. Chameleon like.
Tony Hopkins can play anyone, as can Cate Blanchett.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - Jim DiEugenio - 09-10-2015
Will Geer actually looked like Dulles, too bad he passed on.
I agree that Waterston was good as Helms. Loved the scene where they blacked out his eyes.
Meet Allen Dulles: Fascist Spymaster - R.K. Locke - 09-10-2015
Gary Oldman might do a good job of it.