Friday, 22 March 2013

Male Actors in typecasted roles

There are usually some actors that are typecasted in a film and the audience become familiar with seeing them in similar roles. For our genre, crime, thriller genre, the villain, (Jacob) the type of male actors that you would usually visualise portraying that role would be actors like Robert De Niro,


 especially in films such as Goodfellas: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/
Other actors who noramlly portray villains in films of similar genres are:
 Alan Rickman in films like Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/?ref_=sr_1 and Harry Potter movies http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102798/?ref_=sr_1


And Jack Nicholson, especially for his roles in Batman http://www.imdb.co.uk/title/tt0096895/

Once these actors appear on screen, the audience instantly know their role because of their stage presence. 

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