This is a Stick-Up, Patrick Dempsey
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Casting, Scripts, Newsstand
Once upon a time here on Cinematical (actually, it was a mere year ago), I pondered whether you could ever be too attractive to be believable. I reasoned that it was a bit silly to argue that Angelina Jolie was too pretty to be the mother of a kidnapped child, because good looks doesn't equal good luck. But I might have to change my thesis for Patrick Dempsey. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dempsey is teaming up with Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (aka "The Hangover Team") for an untitled bank heist comedy.Dempsey will play an ordinary man who wanders into his bank branch for a deposit or a withdrawal, and winds up being caught in a robbery. Actually, it's not just one robbery but two occurring at the same bank and at the same time. (If this bank isn't in Gotham City and this stick-up isn't being overseen by the Joker, I'm disappointed already.) But the real kicker is that he is secretly in love with his bank teller, and was just getting up the guts to ask her out when the robberies happened. Now, he's forced to protect her and hope she'll say yes to dinner and a movie if they make it out alive.
Now, I know good looking guys can be shy. But this is like slapping thick glasses on Amanda Seyfried and expecting us to buy that she's unattractive. If he's a regular customer to that teller window, chances are she counts the minutes until he shows up with another deposit, and works frantically to maintain her lipstick in between. She's been hinting every time that she's single and looking. So unless Dempsey's character has been living in a cave (and maybe there's more twists and turns that he has) which has caused him to be socially inept, there's no excusing such awkwardness.
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11-04-2009 @ 9:55PM
martisco said...
Timothy Dalton was (still is, really) a ridiculously handsome actor whose most noteworthy role outside of James Bond was playing Mr. Rochester in the BBC Jane Eyre. Rochester, of course, is described as fairly hideous in Bronte's book. However, in a way his extreme good looks were not only passable, but quite believable in the context of being a lonely figure set apart from those around him in the story. In a way, he was so handsome that he was frightening, which fit the character of Rochester very well. (This version of Jane Eyre is still regarded as one of the best of the many remakes, with Dalton one of the definitive Rochesters.)
This thing with Dempsey, on the other hand, is the sort of low-level laziness in casting that does plague Hollywood.
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11-05-2009 @ 4:09PM
jim said...
He looks ordinary to me. Maybe they're counting on the fact that guys don't much care what other guys look like.
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11-19-2009 @ 11:30AM
dempseylover said...
I think it's gonna be a nice movie, and actually how can youknow it's gonna be a stupid movie before you've seen it?? btw. Patrick is not an ordenairy man!
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