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Catuli 
"Loves Film and Fun"
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 Posted - 11/20/2006 : 00:34:20
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Mickey Rooney as a Audrey Hepburn's Japanese neighbor in "Breakfast At Tiffany's" is an all time howler. That casting must have been payback for Pearl Harbor.
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 06:00:37
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Kevin Costner was famously miscast as Robin Hood in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." Although I liked the idea of a brunette Marian, I also thought Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was miscast.
Amen to that. What surprises me is that no one has included Morgan Freeman's character in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves". The bigots who wrote the original legends obviously deliberately omitted the black Arab member of the Merry Men. Racist jerks! 
The current BBC TV "Robin Hood" series features an Arab member of the gang - who also happens to be a woman.
Wait. Anjali Jay is Indian. But there's nothing inherently 'Arab' in the name Djaq. Are you sure she's supposed to be Arab?
(Looks like a very cool series, though. I hope we get it here.)
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Chris C
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 11/20/2006 : 21:40:29
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She was a Saracen, captured and enslaved in the Crusades and freed by Robin and the gang. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 18:03:57
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Not quite a nationality issue, but Michael Caine in "Get Carter" as a Geordie [that's someone from the Newcastle area].
His accent is pure Sowf Lund'n and anyone who understands anything about English accents knows there is no way anyone with his accent could ever have lived in Newcastle. It's also a stark contrast with the authentic Geordie (or at least northern) accents of most of the cast.
For me its an irritating blot on an otherwise superb film.
Whip - sorry, but I've got to correct you on this one. Caine plays a London gangster who goes north to avenge his brother's death. Check the IMDB plot summary here. I do agree, though, that it's a great movie.
I think yes- he's a London gangster, but only in the sense that he's a gangster in London. If I recall correctly, he heads to Newcastle (i.e. back home) for the funeral of his brother.
I'm always willing to stand corrected, but only when I'm wrong.
And this is not one of those rare, rare occasions. 
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 11/21/2006 : 18:38:51
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Meg Ryan with a New York accent in "Agaisnt the Ropes"
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Hollywood Miscasting of other nationalities
