Laurence Olivier in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

[camper182]

noisia - the tide samples this... epic tune

[AncientHistoryBuff]

why the hell use old footage of one of the greatest actors of the 20th century and manipulate it to make it look as if he actually appeared in the film? it even barely sounds like Sir Laurence Olivier. View any of his movies that he did when he was alive: his Shakespeare films, Wuthering Heights (1939), Rebecca (1940) and Pride And Prejudice (1940). they're much better and show Sir Laurence Olivier at his best.

[painlessissuicide]

@AncientHistoryBuff can you not read?

Jude Law has said that it was his dream as an actor to work alongside Laurence Olivier

since Olivier had been dead twenty years, the director actually went through the trouble of digging through decades worth of test footage of Olivier to put this together

[AncientHistoryBuff]

@painlessissuicide, like i said, it barely even sounds like Sir Laurence Olivier.

[deltamode8]

recruit 5 teenagers with attitude

[MultiSuperSonic1000]

the next Zordon

[RubyRaider]

Why they just'nt dubbed him with someone's else voice?

[GhostPlanetFilms]

"I...AM...TOTENKOPF!"

[JustSomePerson888]

@GhostPlanetFilms - it's the end of that level in Ikari Warriors, with the dead skull&bones guy in the chair...

[scitsalcoryp]

Three Words That Usually work in this situation....that need to be backed up with quick action..................

Fucq You Bitch.........

Make sure all your fun is done before you lay yer head down .

Dont let the sun go down on your anger...

You try to be nice...( forgive them )

and love them.....just do it...dont ask why.

Be excellent......you are so be....you are not perfect at alll

Just wonderful....do not get better than you think you are....

Sheeshooosh

[GriseldaDortch3392]

strong, .........just saw the sex video with him when he was like 19 in a birmingham hotel! lol.. go here check it out.....[Starzexposed...dot...­com.]............ ( interested is maturing from clean )

[scitsalcoryp]

BLISTERING

[scitsalcoryp]

This Movie Kicks Ass

No Matter what any assholre says

[Spartacusi23]

DRUNK TANK!!!!!!!!!!!



[scitsalcoryp]

messed

[92af]

Laurence Olivier might have been a great actor, but I did not like him as person because he seemed a little smug and unsympathetic.

[AgentDeadPinata]

@92af - Next!

[Benthereinc]

Drunk tank!

[Yamikaiba123]

DRUNK TANK!

[IntelxDroid]

Drunnnnkkk ttttaaaannnkkkk

[painlessissuicide]

"Is it safe?"

[giantpickleman2]

craked .  com

[CelebiJoe]

Olivier is Zordon now? lol

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

wizard of oz...

[wrybreadspread]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA exactly the wizard of oz; totenkopf looks like the wizard with the arch in the background and the pillars

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

@wrybreadspread with dorothy paltrow.

[wrybreadspread]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA good point. it's been several years sonce i saw it

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

@wrybreadspread theyre come to see the totempkopf, the totempkopf ,totempkopf of oz

[wrybreadspread]

@MIGUEL2005LIMA they hear he is a wonderful kopf if ever a kopf there was; if ever oh ever a kopf there was, the totemkopf is one because...

[MIGUEL2005LIMA]

@wrybreadspread  the totemkopf , totempk opf oz.

[GhostPlanetFilms]

@wrybreadspread The only difference being his head is blue, instead of green.

[Tacom4ster]

Wow they used an actor that was 15 years dead before this movie

Maybe with some edits and CGI, I can resurrect Orson Welles to be in my Independent films

[AgentDeadPinata]

@Tacom4ster - & you could call it E For Even Faker

[LikaLaruku]

I would have used old Vincent Price footage. lol.

Oh yes, & go go Power Rangers!

[hugh0221]

@LikaLaruku

In case of me, Tony Jay!

[mysterymediacorp]

anyone with a clue on what film they adapted the dialogue from ? just curious

[elevendayempire]

@mysterymediacorp They just used a soundalike, it isn't actually Olivier's voice.

[jc851]

very underrated movie... love all the homages to the 1930s style

[MrJKA2000]

Its cool that hollywood tends to resurrect legendary actors for new movie roles. It keeps their memory and legacy alive when they do that.

[happyassylum13]

lol

its andrew ryans......he got out of Rapture and into the skies

[Colton5]

@happyassylum13 The character of Totenkopf is a far darker and sinister character.

[JMYodaTHX]

Olivier is a brilliant actor cheating death using computers by playing a brilliant scientist cheating death using computers. Genius!

[JustSomePerson888]

@JMYodaTHX - 'Olivier is a brilliant actor cheating death using computers by playing a brilliant scientist cheating death using computers.'

we must go deeper

[Magnolia296]

Definitely one of the most underrated movies of the 2000's - great story line, acting, visual effects. Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow were brilliant screen couple.

This movie was as underrated as The Shadow, The Rocketeer, Dark City...

[DChatc]

This scene is so stunning for a number of reasons (some of which probably off-putting because of the implications).

Knowing what it is like to string sentences out of sound clippings (search for YTP sometime) they did a REALLY good job of it here (unless they just hired a sound alike).

[painlessissuicide]

Jude Law had said that it was his dream as an actor to work alongside Sir Laurence Olivier

of course, Olivier had been dead for twenty years

so the director went through this trouble as a favor for Oscar nominee Law to take his chances on this homage to science fiction of the early 20th century

[DChatc]

Thanks for that insight. Interesting.

[painlessissuicide]

you're welcome

[JustSomePerson888]

@painlessissuicide - "of course, Olivier had been dead for twenty years"

not in the realm of eXistenZ, tranCendeZ, or AI though

[JMYodaTHX]

@DChatc No, all the dialog is really Olivier, brilliantly spliced together. Unlike the restored bath scene in Spartacus where they got Anthony Hopkins to loop his voice for Olivier.

[92af]

Laurence Olivier was totaly better than Alec Guinness was

[painlessissuicide]

Sir Laurence Olivier is the greatest actor who ever lived, this is true

but the way you are saying it, makes it sound like Sir Alec Guinness had no talent at all

[Jennytheshipper]

This is so wrong. Crap movie. RIP, Larry. Greatest actor evah!

[painlessissuicide]

just to add to the Olivier/Brando debate:

while they had two different styles (one a classically trained thespian, the other a more "natural" actor) Brando was more or less insane, probably had at least one anti-social personality disorder

he made life hell for his directors & fellow actors, and almost no-one (with the exception of Karl Malden) ever willingly worked with him more than once

[pudgyproductions]

coppola

[painlessissuicide]

are you familiar with Apocalypse Now?

[DChatc]

Sounds like Brando was the American Kinski LoL!

[painlessissuicide]

huh?

[DanielTheWalrus]

That's it? That's the whole appearance ?

[ShakespeareHamlet]

why did they even bother putting one of the greatest actorsof all time into a movie like this when he died in 1989? it's obvious that the voice actor was a double.

[JMYodaTHX]

@ShakespeareHamlet *WRONG.* They carefully spliced together actual Olivier dialog.

[ShakespeareHamlet]

doesn't sound like it to me.

[DrinkWater22]

Had Brando ever done Hamlet we would have had something to compare them with. Maybe though who've seen Olivier's Mark Antony in Julius Ceaser could comment on Brando's.

[nonnelsivle]

That I would agree with. Two different type of actors but equal on the same level.

[DrinkWater22]

Brando could have had the oppertunity to try out the roles Olivier has done in the past. John Gielgud offered him the role of Hamlet after doing Julius Ceaser, which Brando turned down. Olivier was better at the technique and proved himself he could take on any role even though his health limited it, while Brando's later career was limited by obsesity and sheer stupidity. I can never say who's the better peformer.

[Colton5]

i would love for a totenkopf like speech or person to have been in Ghost in the shell.

someone who hates the world they live in

[hotdave86000]

COOL

[predlycon]

question... is all that olivier's audio dialogue from different movies/interviews piled up?

[Guernicaman]

Seems to me more like a sound-a-like.

[MyName42]

I agree, tho I'm surprised u left out The Godfather :)

[HARSHREALITYSLAP]

"Now, leave this place: or die....."

[DrinkWater22]

What a pity that such a glorious creature had to grow old and leave us.

[Remington61189]

he and marlon brando where lovers

[noqa]

Today's audiences don't know what they were missing here.

[moonflower0924]

sounds just like him. cool

[AnotherDarkAngel]

It's so bloody ironic, there's a film that was out when I was 'around' with him (technically) in it, AND I STILL DIDN'T GO AND SEE IT! I freaking love Olivier!!!!!

[ALG1804]

Olivier is a god of acting.

[fairportfan]

Toobad it's not formatted right...

[jc851]

great use of a dead actor in a new role! this is becoming quite a trend with the use of Brando in Superman Returns. Good way to introduce them to a new audience

[Vladdyboy]

This scene is a rip-off of the Wizard of Oz, but since we saw a person in this film watching it at the beginning, this would be considered an "Homage"

[Shadowmanor]

I thought this was pretty cool. I love the idea.

[92af]

How can Laurence Olivier be in this movie when he´s dead?

[nelipotfootfree]

He phoned in his performance.

[Tripp1993]

In reality, Sir Laurence Olivier is in the movie posthumously because he is seen using digitally manipulated footage from the BBC and CGI. The same thing happened in 2006. Instead, it was Marlon Brando as Jor-El using footage from "Superman II" and "Superman III" and the old footage, mixed with CGI, and sound outtakes were used for "Superman Returns".

[nonnelsivle]

Brando scenes was for Superman The Movie and Superman II. But here Olivier face was taken out of a BBC documentary that was done many years ago. With the helpd of CGI he was able to make this movie. He is really the first actor to be cast in a movie that the actor has passed away. Brando is the second but his footage was just re-used for Superman Returns and filmed in 1978.

[dsmrunner]

Actually, if you look at DVD special features, they'll show you that about half the footage used in Superman Returns is a CG recreation of Brando, since they didn't have video footage of the lines read, only audio. The bottom half of his face was CG, with the eyes and up being the real footage.

[bicarbonat]

So, wait...did the producers just have to go through Olivier's 'people' (you know, the one's who handle anything to do with his name/likeness) to get his voice/face in the movie? B/c I can't imagine him knowing about this..considering he died in 1989, if I'm not mistaken. lol

[Colton5]

thats the coolest fucking voice ever.

id want that if i was a villain

[tomryannova]

This was a GREAT movie

[dsgm]

"greatest Shakespearean actor ever"? Great, yes. Greatest, no. Have you seen Ian Mckellen and Judith Dench in Macbeth?..The mid 70's version. THAT is exceptional. Olivier's Richard III is a scene chewer. Great, yes.. Greatest, sorry. no.

[yufescarinoso]

you are not the only one who thinks that way

[manolinmanolon]

Thats silly! couldn't chose the director an alive actor?! I think, Olivier did enaugh films and don't need to appear in a film, when he's dead...

[heliosium]

I guess Olivier appearance gives a thrill to that moment in the film. He Is Not A Untouchable Idol.

[ShakespeareHamlet]

atrocious. very distasteful. why should some has-been director mess with the memory of the greatest Shakespearean actor ever (besides Kenneth Branagh)? I am so glad I did not buy this piece of junk.

[calcecini]

I disagree that it is in bad taste - I think there is something fitting in Olivier as a superhuman force, and in any case what a thrill to go to the cinema and suddenly see those eyes and hear that voice once again, whatever the form! Jude's line at the end of the scene "is it safe?" is a reference to Marathon man.

[Neasyorc]

What the hell is your problem?