I'm sure we've all done it. We've all had conversations along these lines, be it our own mistake or someone else's:
Film fan #1:- "Have you ever seen that movie with Gary Busey where he plays a homeless guy and he ends up living with a rich family in Hollywood? And he sleeps with the guys wife and mistress and makes his life hell?"
Film fan #2:- "You mean Down & Out In Beverly Hills?"
Film fan #1:- "That's the one."
Film fan #2:- "No it's not got Gary Busey in it. It's Nick Nolte that plays the homeless guy. Gary Busey is the guy that's trying to trap the Predator in Predator 2."
Film fan #1:- "No, no that's the guy who plays Bruce Banner's dad in that Hulk movie by Ang Lee."
Film fan #2:- "No THAT'S Nick Nolte. Eddie Murphy's partner in 48 hours."
Film fan #1:- "The guy who's Keanu Reeves' partner in Point Break?"
Film fan #2:- "GAAHH!! NO! THAT'S GARY BUSEY!!!"
I'm forever having these types of conversations with people. Sometimes it's simple mistaken identity that confuses them.
Sometimes it's stubbornness to believe they're wrong that drives them to keep pushing their point of view.
Sometimes it's the sheer inability to tell faces apart from each other.
In my case, if I ever make this mistake it's usually because they're incredibly similar looking. But right after discovering the difference between the actors I get an immediate idea in my head.
They'll probably never be in the same film.
Unless they're playing each others relatives...
So here is a suggestion to the makers of movies and/or television programs for people that could play each other's relations, be they parents, children, grandchildren or siblings.
N.B.-This post will be lady actors and then another time I'll put up one of gent actors
Elizabeth Perkins, Embeth Davidtz, Sarah Paulson & Bridget Moynahan
Maggie Grace, Leslie Bibb, Emma Caulfield & Rachael McAdams
Helen Hunt, Tina Fey & Anna Kendrick
Elisha Cuthbert, Alison Lohman & Chloë Moretz
Rosie Huntington-Whitely & Rachel Weisz
And the insanely obvious Meg & Jennifer Tilley
Until next time fools,
Pete
So everyone is all in tears and shit watching that new John Lewis Christmas advert.
I'm usually the first to well up at anything sentimental. As anyone who's ever watched a film with me should be able to testify.
But I just don't like it.
I find this version much more compelling.
Until next time fools,
Pete
Posted this a while back on Facebook, but I stand by it's merits.
Dear Hollywood,
Make a Predator film where the Predator is the protagonist and he gets
left on a hostile world with super hard bad-ass alien creatures in a
tough-as-shit eco-system.
He goes there to hunt but it's way tougher
than he thought and he has to survive, all the while relying less and
less on his equipment and meanwhile honing his hunting skills to near
perfection.
And call it 'Prey'.
Yours copyrightedly,
Pete
So, I get a lot of stuff popping into my head.
As do we all.
And sometimes I think about writing it down and sometimes I forget to do so and it's lost forever.
Sometimes it's a good thing cos obviously not every idea is good, in fact most are the gibberings of a lonely bored mind trying to occupy itself until the next cartoon comes on. But sometimes I'm gutted because if nothing else they're fairly entertaining.
I thought this would be a good place to write them down. That way I'll always be able to find them and people can have a look and comment/like/hate/troll/rant as they see fit.
This blog shall have no discernible thread between posts nor any particular point to it other than to put down the things my brain tells me are good ideas, even when I know they are not.
So here is my first one that's been in my head for around 12 years:
A con-man movie about two grifters. One finds out about his real father and seeks him out, the other is about to pull the biggest job of his life but has fallen for the mother of the woman he was going to use as a patsy after finding out she is in deep with some loan sharks after her mother inherits her father's bad debts after his death.
After some initial rivalry and double-crossing they must team up with each other to rip off the mob and save the two women with their trickery.
It will star Gary & Jake Busey as the estranged father and son and it will be called "Trust me".
The trailer will in fact end with the women saying "Are you sure you can pull this off?" and the pair turn to the camera slowly revealing their massive, teeth filled, trademark, shit-eating, remarkably untrustworthy grins and they say "Trust me!"
So this is what happens in my head.
And now it happens here.
Please feel free to check out my other blogs- The one where I make lists of things and the one that nobody is interested in.
Until next time fools,
Pete
