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Interesting movie or TV trivia
I came across this video and thought this would be a fun topic. The choice of James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader made all the difference in Star Wars, I think.
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Along the same lines, the Goldfinger character was revoiced by Michael Collins, as Gert Fröbe's accent was not good in the film. I can't imagine anyone other than Gert Fröbe playing the role. That's easy to say because you see one actor do something well and is casts the die. I was astonished when I found out it wasn't Gert's voice in the film (my favorite Bond). The job they did was undetectable to me.
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^^^I had no idea. Lot of work for the 60's when all they had was film.
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Came across this today. The new director Guy Hamilton had significant input on Goldfinger. I'm surprised to find out they hired the German actor Gert Fröbe on the basis that his agent said he spoke English, which he didn't.
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Wasn’t Gert Fröbe was in a Daniel Craig Bond movie*? He asked Bond to valet his car, when bond was in front of the country club. Whose voice was that?
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I remember he looked like Gert Fröbe, so I looked it up. He was another German actor Jürgen Tarrach. The filmmakers didn't acknowledge it, but it's widely considered an Easter egg.
Although he was considered for a return in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Goldfinger's brother, he declined, leaving his sole appearance in the franchise to the 1964 film. (from Google AI).
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 The actor who played Mr. Kidd on Diamonds are Forever is Putter Smith. Who turns out to be a somewhat famous jazz bass player. The cool / odd part? I was having a work breakfast and I heard a conversation behind me. It was my High School bass tutor having breakfast with Putter Smith. |
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Y'all remember Doc Hollywood? Michael J Fox's character is driving a Speedster from Miami to Hollywood, gets in a wreck in a small Florida town.
Couple of local mechanics have fun with him, joking about engine being stolen while looking up front, joking about being glad to finally have an excuse to order some metric tools, and when the car is fixed, they have his leftover parts in a box .... Was filmed in/around Micanopy, Fl just down the road from me. And there is in fact a turkey of a Porsche mechanic in Micanopy... Like ... he put a 8v battery in my 356 and tweaked the voltage regulator to fix a "hard start" issue, and of course the wrong 009 VW distributer and ....
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