Movie/TV Pairings to induce cognitive dissonance.

[fishgutzy]

That being a pair movies one TV shows in which one actor plays totally different character types in the two movies.

For instance.
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote and Mission Impossible III.
Brian Cranston in Malcolm in The Middle and Breaking Bad.

 

[Chuckman]

Robert DeNiro; gangster, and loveable CIA guy in Meet the Parents
Jack Nicholson; Anger Management, and The Shining
Joe Pesci; Goodfellas, and My Cousin Vinny
John Travolta; Face Off, and Face Off

 

[Supermatch]

Ralph Fiennes - Maid in Manhattan / Red Dragon & Harry Potter

Gary Oldman - Harry Potter / The Professional

 

[B00ger]

Leonardo Decaprio : Whats eating gilbert grape and The Wolf of Wall Street

 

[Supermatch]

Robin Williams - Insomnia / Patch Adams

 

[ChickenHawk]

Vince Vaughn- Dodgeball/ Domestic Disturbance

 

[two77]

How about Garret Dillahunt playing two different characters in the same series... he was Jack McCall (Wild Bill Hickock's assassin) and Francis Walcott (mining engineer and serial killer) on Deadwood.

 

[Chuckman]

Leonardo Decaprio : Whats eating gilbert grape and The Wolf of Wall Street

I went on a first date to The Wolf of Wall Street. neither of us knew about the sex scenes. It was a bit awkward after the movie. No second date.

 

[B00ger]

I went on a first date to The Wolf of Wall Street. neither of us knew about the sex scenes. It was a bit awkward after the movie. No second date.

Honestly have never seen it, just clips. But DiCaprio has a pretty amazing range he has acted.

 

[JohnnyTyler]

Charlize Theron. Both released the same year.

The Italian Job

Monster

 

[ProfMagoo(ret)]

Michael Caine: Dressed to Kill/Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

This one might be obscurely niche, but David Canary's portrayal of Adam and Stuart Chandler (brothers) in the soap opera All My Children was masterful. Adam the power player dominant business tycoon, Stuart, essentially developmentally challenged -- essentially still a boy.

 

[Dale Gribble]

Denzel Washington:

Training Day
The Book of Eli

 

[ProfMagoo(ret)]

Denzel Washington:

Training Day
The Book of Eli

He was awesome as Don Pedro in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing.

 

[fishgutzy]

Ralph Fiennes - Maid in Manhattan / Red Dragon & Harry Potter

Gary Oldman - Harry Potter / The Professional

To Ralph, one could add 28 Days Later and The English Patient.

Bingo in Gary Oldman.
Both are in the top of the character actor list today.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Sylvester Stallone, The Italian Stallion and virtually any other movie he's ever been in.

 

[B00ger]

Tom Hardy: Legend/Legend

 

[Exspiravit]

Gary Oldman
Two Gary Oldman movies.

 

[turkeydance]

well, John Wayne played Genghis Khan.