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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Safety is forever second when designing outfits for female characters to include high heels, cleavage windows, and thongs.
I know the idea was that it was not finished yet. But couldn't help but think this instead.
edited 11th Jul '17 12:40:48 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers...so why doesn't she shave her head?
edited 11th Jul '17 12:48:26 PM by Tuckerscreator
Something I've been wondering about: what's the record for the largest number of films featuring the same actor playing the same character?
'Cause, as of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Robert Downey Jr. has played Tony Stark in seven different movies (not counting his post-credits cameo in The Incredible Hulk), which puts him even with Sean Connery and Roger Moore playing James Bond or Christopher Lee playing Dracula, and he should surpass them come Infinity War. I'm pretty sure those are far from the biggest, but I'm curious who the actual record holder is here.
Christopher Lee was Dracula in ten movies.
Hugh Jackman was Wolverine in nine movies. Leonard Nimoy was Spock in eight movies. The core Harry Potter cast all played their same roles for eight movies. Robert Englund was Freddy Krueger eight times. Desmond Llewelyn was Q in 17 James Bond movies.
edited 11th Jul '17 6:45:21 PM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."If you want to include the old serials of the 30's and 40's it will be hard to beat, as film turnaround was a lot faster and some actors starred (not cameo or supporting role) as certain characters for 10-15 movies over 7-8 years. A quick search (from off the top of my head) suggests Warner Osland playing Charlie Chan in 16 movies. And that's not including things like Three Stooges (200+ short films and a number of features) or Laurel and Hardy (flexible continuity). Even something more recent, Ioan Gruffold was in 8 television movies over 5 years as Horatio Hornblower, and he has expressed interest in doing more.
I was really only thinking about feature length films, although, doing some research of my own, it looks like the original Zatoichi series had the same actor play Ichi for 26 movies. I don't know if that's the record, but it's darn hard to beat, regardless.
Robert Downey Jr. may hold the record for most reprisals of the same character in a movie not about him, but that's a narrow category.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."If you really wanted an accurate answer, counting total screen time would be the best way.
This song needs more love.According to this
Tony wins in that category easily. The only movie actor with more screentime is Coulson and most of that comes from a TV show. Cap is up there too but there's a pretty huge gap. Thor is actually surprisingly low although Ragnarok's time hasn't been added to the count yet.
You can pretty much disregard all the TV actors. In which case the top ten are:
1. Iron Man: 306 minutes
2. Captain America: 207 minutes
3. Thor: 110 minutes
4. Bruce Banner/Hulk: 95 minutes
5. Black Widow: 89 minutes
6. Starlord: 84 minutes
7. Spider-Man: 83 minutes
8. Stephen Strange: 73 minutes
9. Pepper Potts: 64 minutes
10. Loki: 60 minutes
Dat gap tho.
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."The first thing I thought of was Basil Rathbone being Sherlock Holmes fourteen times. I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone with more. Film series were allowed to get longer way back in the day than they tend to be allowed to get now.
edited 11th Jul '17 10:26:54 PM by KnownUnknown
A Google search gives Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton as Dagwood and Blondie in twenty-eight films. No idea how accurate that is.
edited 11th Jul '17 10:39:50 PM by LordVatek
This song needs more love.Today I learned that there were 28 movies adapted from the Blondie comic book. You know, people say Hollywood's gone crazy with remakes, adaptations, and sequels, but that's just wrong. There's less original movies being made, but that's just because there's less movies in general being made nowadays.
I'm sure someone can top that for both number of appearances and running time, but I can't believe that A) Blondie was popular enough at one time that they made actual movies out of it and B) that I had never heard there were Blondie movies before. Something new everyday.
It's not really wrong, it's just that if Hollywood is going to make fewer movies, the proportion of those movies that are remakes could really stand to be adjusted downward.
edited 11th Jul '17 10:46:49 PM by Unsung
Franchise movies used to have a much quicker turn around time and cost relatively a third because of different budget flow and shorter production periods. The minimum average today is about two years to make a sequel, factoring in developing the story and resetting the contracts with the actors. The Harry Potter movies managed a faster production cycle because they had the books as a template. That's why the cinematic Shared Universe was such a big gamble to deal with, imagine spending the money for all three Divergent movies at the same time and watch the returns tank. Except for Iron Man, the MCU was just a modest success before Avengers.

edited 11th Jul '17 12:35:25 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers