Did anyone get the name of the old guy, Christopher Marlowe. He starts the novel with a quote by Shakespeare. There was a real Christopher Marlowe who was a contemporary of Shakespeare and wrote Dr. Faustus. Thought it was an interesting tidbit.
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The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus. Yes, I am familiar with this work now, but I have not seen the film in some time. I didn't catch that during the time I watched the film.
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ummm yeah.....they actually make a big deal about it in the movie. That was actually a BIG part of the whole plot....Cuba was reading the Marlowe book in the library and there was the Faustus poster in the professor's office. Did you know that the "old guy" wasn't a REAL old guy....don't know if anyone caught that or not lol jeeze......
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I see. I guess I wasn't paying attention to the production design of the film and instead focused on the performances and the storyline.
That has to be Eric Stoltz playing Christopher Marlowe. It was obvious to me that it was him under the makeup. Since I haven't finished watching the movie, I don't know if it was a set up by Thurman Parks III, or whether Eric just played both roles.
Did anyone else see Eric in the Marlowe character?
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Nothing in the credits for Marlowe and no DVD commentary, so you may be correct. It's the Professor as revealed at the end of the movie, but they could have put Stoltz/Parks III in the disguise to throw off the audience.
Yes, because it was SOOO hard to play an old British guy in heavy makeup for about 5 minutes of the movie! Give the other actor some credit; did you see him in the ending? He's no amateur.
shareactually according to tvtropes.org it is a stock "Trope" called 'casting the mask' so it's not a totally out of left field idea... when you have a plot involving a unknown killer/mysterious figure in the shadows who's real self appears on screen, you use a different actor than the one who plays the 'real' character, to keep audiences guessing, or to make them guess wrong
even if Pelligrino really is under the make up, and not Stoltz, putting a little of Stoltz into the mask model would make people more likely to suspect it's Stoltz's character
also having seen Stoltz but not having seen Pelligrino when we meet 'Marlowe'(unless i missed something) you're more apt to suspect him simply by virtue of having seen him
-- heck despite an 11 year career at the point of this movie he was still 'that guy from that episode of that show one time' to me... it's only in hindsight that he is more recognizable after getting extended arcs on Lost, Dexter, et al
so watching the film 'Pre-Lost' which character is the more likely suspect the one played by 'That guy' or the one played by the former 80's heart throb
I hadn't seen this movie in awhile and I forgot how it ended; when the old man showed up, I tried to remember if it was Eric Stoltz or not so I really gave him the once over. It was not Eric Stoltz.
shareHis accent was similar to the Stoltz character as well, probably to throw viewers off the scent.
My favorite quote from the movie: "There was something very odd about Mr. Marlowe. I couldn't put my finger on it."
Of course, when I heard that line I thought, "his rubber face maybe?"