Yahoo! Look at this fun blogathon we’re hosting with Christina Wehner. Join us if you can!
There is something particularly riveting about watching a film where an actor plays more than one role. Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda, Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap, Michael J. Fox in the three Back to the Future films. Even Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor.
It is that combination of technical know-how, make-up, and the sheer skill of an individual actor that produces the peculiar exhilaration one can feel. Cinema is, after all, about role playing and the illusion of reality, an image of reality. What can typify this more than the concept of dual or multiple roles?
In that spirit, Ruth of Silver Screenings and I are so excited to announce the Dual Roles Blogathon: One Actor ~ Multiple Roles.
Time – Friday, Sept. 30th – Sunday, Oct. 2nd
Rules – Duplicate posts on the same film are most welcome (it seems…
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I’d like to write about Bette Davis as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips in Dead Ringer (1964). 🙂
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Excellent! It wouldn’t be a proper blogathon if someone didn’t bring Bette to the party. Looking forward to it! 🙂
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Oh, yeah, and this blogathon pops up just about ten days after I’ve written at egregious length elsewhere about Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1931/2)? I feel picked upon . . .
I could do the 1941 version, I suppose. Better that than The Parent Trap.
Maybe.
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Ooh – I hope you do decide to do the 1941 version.
It was a case of rotten timing, wasn’t it? 😦
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Ooh! I’m not sure… I’ll get back to you ASAP but I’d like to write about Dead Again. (Kenneth or Emma)
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I hope you can join us, Sarah – and with a look at Dead Again, too! It’s been a while since I’ve seen that film, but I remember really enjoying it and being COMPLETELY blindsided by that plot twist.
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Hi Ruth. Dipping my toes back in the blogathon pool… May I write about Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator”?
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That sounds great! I was hoping someone would choose that. It appears you’re not on the list yet, so I will fill in the form on Christina’s site for you. Yay! Looking forward to this. 🙂
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This should be fun, Ruth. 🙂
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Yes, I’m really looking forward to it. We already have a lot of interest & a good variety of films.
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How fun! I love movies like this.
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Me too! It was hard to pick just one.
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