Actors Who Spent Their Whole Careers Playing The Same Role

Bruce Willis


Character: John McClane, and Variations Thereof

Examples: The Fifth Element, The Last Boy Scout, Striking Distance, Hudson Hawk, Die Hard, Tears of the Sun


Bruce Willis is well general with a thing: portrait badass easily-relatable. Far it is of me to judge the type - it is rather rotten good with its work, after all - but of the more advantageous roles of Willis' imply usually guns, explosions, and a-coverings.

Many versions of Willis of John McClane have light differences, naturally: in the fifth element, McClane is fair and slightly romantic; in the last scout of boy, McClane is drunk more and wash-towards the top that usual; in the falcon of Hudson, McClane is cartoony; in 16 blocks, McClane is old and grumpy.

Granted, Willis tried to make an incursion into the kingdom of the right drama (history of us, for example), but of the career of Bruce always basically goes down to his incredible capacity to give to a kick the ass and to take names. Even when playing a traveller limit-psychotic of time in twelve monkeys, it always seems like an abnormally strong and trustful name-taker and/or an ass-pulseur.



Ben Affleck



Character: Almost Charming, Immensely Douchebaggy Sonofabitch

Examples: Good Will Hunting, Gigli, Reindeer Games, Smokin’ Aces

To slacken, to rest behind, and I will describe one of the most satisfactory moments in the recent history of cinema.

Have of Smokin'. Approximately forty minutes Po Ben Affleck and his buddies of hunter of generosity stop by the side of the road and discuss their plan for the buddy of tightening “have” Israel. Suddenly, a strong and black car which resembles him can spout out came from the well of the hell itself comes shouting near, heavy metal music bursting extremely. Affleck and his are used as team-member the glance above in curiosity as it dispatches in the distance. They speak for a little more about the plan, until the opposite of devil-car, stop, and proceed to the jet Affleck and its car with the fire of machine-gun.

It is right - the best moment have in Smokin les' made take part Ben Affleck obtaining his shit destroyed by three néo-Nazis. And it is even when it plays one of its less irritating natures.

Starting with Mallrats and the progress from there, Ben Affleck summarizes the smarmy, almost-but-not-all with fact-attractive-enough-with-guarantee-sound-be-a-enormous-moron that we all met at a certain point in our lives. In addition to the fact that it is too good remote to play us of the character are supposed to scorn (Shannon de Mallrats could be the best example of this), all its characters have a smugness about them that marks it rotten impossible near with like. It transformed Murdock grimaçant chechmate into douchebag, saké for qualité'. It takes a hell of to encourage the breakage-neck much to seem fop, but Affleck was more than until charging.



Harrison Ford



Character: Angry-Looking, Can-Do Badass

Examples: Firewall, Frantic, Witness, Air Force One

I permit gladly that Ford had somewhat more distance than actors early on in its career (instead of annoy to to look ability, was he bath-ate cocky Schauen an ability bath-ate), but the inevitable grumpiness, which comes approximately resulting from old age and a career into showbusiness more or less has, reduces each individual letter Ford for the eighties to one pissed away described, thin veiled version of Harrison Ford.

The fact even ignore that US probably never furious-look a president as as Ford in the Air Force would select, views of the Gecken even pissed, if it assumed, in order to be lucky. In a film, how it is ready, everyone in 10 may kill party wall, Ford of views mile radius - and that is, before its family is even kidnapped. Late Ford letters really do not have much an elbow: it begins annoyed, kills annoys some people and stores the people, which it loves, but still really looks goddamn, which is provoked over it. For approximately three-quarter the duration of the Zeuges I to be really stored was not safe, whether he was in the process, the kid before the pressure he under the rubber tires of a überschreitenen truck or fairly along for one while lines him up.

, Ford lets new attitude toward to its roles honestly be the following Indiana Jones fun of the film terriblly to the clock: Ford guidance its older, more bezaubernder or becomes he keeps his new, will-steps blicken-an-ihn condition or it is a mixture of the two?



Sean Connery



Character: Scottish

Examples: Name of the Rose, First Knight, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander

With in the past voted the man with the worst false accent in the showbusiness, there is something slightly odd about this fact that at any point as a Sean the career that of Connery A even tried to adopt the indigenous accent of a character it played. It does not import if you are a Spaniard, a Russian, or a monk: if Sean Connery plays you, you will have a Scottish accent.

Connery more or less managed to leave with him considering its roles were differently filled of badassery total (“it tellsh I that weak the goosh-shtepping as yourselves should test books of reading instead of baerning them”), but he must still be known as - for a so large actor, he is lazy rather rotten when he comes to his accents.



Ricky Gervais



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