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Old 09-01-2011, 02:59 PM
Jcordell Jcordell is offline
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Originally Posted by predator20 View Post
I like how you say it's a great cast, but then recast the main actors. I've never been a fan of Bosworth. Marsden's a good actor, I know a lot of people are bitching because they wanted a more wimpy Hoffman type. But I'm kinda of glad they didn't go that route. Picking someone that at least looks like he can give that big Swede a run for his money.

Your dream cast probably would have been okay, but we'll never know.
Back in the day Hoffman was a pretty fit guy. See Marathon Man. He was actually built like the Army Rangers and divisional LRSD (Long Range Surveillance Detachment) guys that I had contact with back in my Army days. Little wiry guys who run seven - ten miles everyday (or ruck 12 - 15 miles) and then do 600 push-ups, sit-ups and pull-ups. Sure they lift weights, but they do so much cardio that their bodies don't get a chance to put on (and keep) big old muscle mass.

There has been many a little wimpy looking guy that has killed hundreds of enemy soldiers in combat. See Audie Murphy. Anyway that's the idea behind Straw Dogs. A civilized, educated man who doesn't have the genetic background of a caveman but who learns to tap the animal inside himself and actually becomes more of a monster that those that he is fighting. The character can't and shouldn't look like he hangs out at in the free weight room and the local Y.

I think that this famous quote by Nietsche applies to the movie.

"Those who fight monsters should take care that they never become one. For when you stand and look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." ~ Frederich Nietsche

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