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Bestiarium
That was a good movie. I wonder if it still holds up if I rewatch it now as an adult.
BigRobbo
I always figured it was how Jumanji screwed with him. It had him chased and hunted by the person he feared most... his own Dad.
ruint
yeah, i assumed the same
dr3dz1k
I was also today years old.
yokwe
Kind of like Captain Hook
Hercules99
Y'all blind?
PunnyTiger
Don't feel bad; i've watched several seasons of both before I healized Hugh Laurie from "Bit of Fry and Laurie" is the same guy as Hugh Laurie from "House"
MrStealYourGiF
How long before you realised Dr Gordon Gordon in Bones is Lord/General Melchett in Blackadder?
SoberAndBored
I used to walk to work in North-East London. (Cricklewood to Camden) and sometimes in Summer when people would have their windows open I'd hear piano music from a particular house, it was obviously someone playing, not Youtube or something. Then one day Hugh Laurie walked out of that house. A different time, I nearly got to work and VERY nearly walked into Damian Lewis who was coming out of his house. It was when Band of Brothers was on TV (so 2001).
TheHomestarmy
This is how Superman could pose as Clark Kent.
ToSisPoS
That guy at the end of Hook sweeping up bottles was the same actor who played Mr. Smee! It threw me because they wore different clothes.
TattoosAndTENS
The Dad in Peter Pan is always played by the same actor as Captain Hook
MarcUK
Why pay two actors, when you can pay one. :-)
MikuJess
This is the power of facial hair!
MrStealYourGiF
That's some Wendy's Dad/Captain hook shit that is.
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
Wat now??? I just fell off my chair. That kind of things always fly way above my head.
Hashbrown123
That is where they took the idea from.
CreepyPhlox
Also wizard of oz.
ameranthe
If you look at it, it makes perfect sense. Both men wanted their children to grow up and be more adult. In both cases the child or children ended up in worlds far from their home that kept them in a childlike state. It makes perfect sense that the authoritarian father figure is the villain, but in both cases the fathers missed and loved their children when they returned. In a way, Robin Williams has played both Peter Pan and Wendy.
MrStealYourGiF
Well thank the stars there's still some kids movies around that don't have layers of meaning like that and are just pure fantasy, like The Lego Movie
SmoeAhsolse
In Hook he's not just Pan, but also in a roundabout way (in addition to literally), the father.
Vauclain
I gotta say man, that was the most obvious shit ever, like, it was literally the main point of Alan’s entire character development
Niagaran
We're getting downvoted for not saying "I am also a blind putz"
65454685132465846865163
it was a looooooooong time, I wanna say like 2015ish, before I found out dr. evil and austen powers were the same guy
painkiller1968
AMercer
Yeah, there was kind of a deep meaning for that one. Alan fears his dad more than anything. So the game of course creates the ultimate villain and models it after his dad. But Alan learns to deal with those fears and when he is back to his childhood he now has the courage to tell his dad what happened in the factory. And learns his dad is not the monster that he envisioned.
TacTheScribbler
I was also one of these people. All the times I watched as a kid, I never realized, but there was a gap of 8 or so years before I watched it in my mid-20s. I felt so silly for not seeing it sooner.
CHillyFrilly
It's Peter pPan again
jesusisherelookbusy
Also this chap in The Mummy
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FancySharkDinnerParty
I never had that problem; they sound exactly the same.
jonalexassblast
Hell, even with facial hair, they still look identical...I'm more confused about how anyone could be fooled. Maybe Superman was on to something.
aguacatedeldiablo
Eh. I was in high school when it came out, it was obvious to me that it was the same actor and that that was for a reason, but it's a kid's movie, I wouldn't be that surprised a 7yo couldn't figure it out until later.
daftbeowulf
I caught it in my first viewing, I was 6-7 when it came out -- so I'm surprised at this post because I've literally never heard anybody say they didn't notice this or understand the parallel between the characters until now. I'm sure there's something super obvious in other movies I missed as a kid that everyone else got, but this one is crazy to me lol
DickLaurantIsDead
Acting
Leaveittojebus
daftbeowulf
I'm confused... I saw this when it first came out when I was 6 or 7, I clocked it being the same actor in my first viewing, understood it as a parallel to Alan's conflict with his father and "being a man" during my second viewing, if not the first. Was it common to not even recognize it was the same actor?
mirrorz
I only vaguely remember watching that movie. Maybe i knew it then but i wouldnt have known it now.
TrueLegateDamar
A Hunter From the Darkest Wild. Makes You Feel Just Like A Child.
FailureFactory
Oh my, yes. Even the line references it.
SexyBarnacleDicks
VAN PELT.
neonoptic
How do people not notice these things...INSTANTLY? Is this a face blindness thing I've heard about? I'm confused.
cosonfused
Some people just don't pay that much attention to it. they just want to see the movie. Plus, the whole disguise thing.
SirWhiskersThe3rd
Wait till we tell them who Clark Kent is!
SoItGoesQuarantineEdition
I can barely recognize celebrities. Might get Schwarzenegger and Pitt but downhill from there. Have to ask my wife when watching a show after some scene changes.
Zange0
IDK if there's 'levels' of face blindness or what, but I'm definitely up there on not being able to match faces. Even the two pictures above, I can recognize some similarities, but I genuinely don't parse them as the same person.
jcole01
I think it must be because I still can't see it. I had to double check the IMDB page to be sure this post is telling the truth. I'm pretty bad at recognizing people, especially celebrities.
Icethorn
I didn't notice it either. But maybe because I was young when I often saw the movie. Maybe it's the way you look at someone's face. Some focus more on someones mouth (so mustache can make it look different) and some focus more on the eyes etc. I am a twin and 50% of the people who see me and my brother can't see the difference the other half can.
Maulbert
He also is the reason Titanic sunk.
CyberHexx
He played the iceberg!?
jaysjunkymail11
Also McCauly Caulkins butler in Richie Rich
ChelVanin
He was the iceberg? Truly a versatile actor.
korndogg83
Not a native speaker but isn’t it sank here?
imsurroundedbyassholes
They're kinda interchangeable as they're both past tense. If there really is a correct way to determine which to use it's esoteric to native speakers anyway.
vibur
Yes, ‘sank’ is correct here.
way2slo
...and he helped release The Mummy.
malachitedragon
Actually he was yelling at them *not* to read from the Book; Imhotep being rezzed is all on Evey.
nemesisx00
And murdered Mozart...
way2slo
That was F. Murry Abraham. This actor is Jonathan Hyde.
ZoBrightlance
That's true, it was his tool kit.
SlyMrFox
No, it wasn't. It was the American with the glasses, Burns, who owned the tool kit. The Egyptologist found the Book of the Dead that Evy stole.
ZoBrightlance
You're right. Mixed up "That's my tool kit!" and "That's my book!" speakers. Which means I need to re-watch The Mummy as punishment for my sins.
SlyMrFox
Punishment is Curse of the Dragon Emperor and the "sequels" of the Scorpion King.
FancySharkDinnerParty
*Borrowed
SlyMrFox
I was hoping for this response. ^.^
LollipopFromHell
Whats a Jumani..?
Humputse
The hunter wants to take Jumani and Jujobs.
peruvianfightingmidgets
it means no worries for the rest or your days
StellaMatutina
It's that movie with Kevin Hart and the rock in the jungle. Wait, that doesn't narrow it down
SecretCookies
Jumanji is a fantastic kids movie from the 90's: https://g.co/kgs/Z3KnBtL
Snooj
They're making fun of the typo.
SecretCookies
Lol. I didn't even notice that. Thanks!
MidnightTacoTruck
You is
thedudeman519
Nothing, what's a motto with you?
OliverOtter
It's a game for those who seek to find a way to leave their world behind. (tm)
scottvardy
well!...
WenTheEternallySurprised
Wait until you see The Wizard of Oz.
Maultasche
Or Peter Pan
paigezero
"and you were there, and you were there..."
whiskeywonka
Wasnt that part of the whole storyline was that he needed to stand up to him?
ghsdkgb
Huh. I recognized the casting as a kid but never got why. That makes sense!
ghostofGracchusBabeuf
Yeah, I saw this casting choice as thematic. I didn’t question that was the intention until just now when u saw people who didn’t get it
mrgreen326
Well that makes the movie even better
SmoeAhsolse
It is hinted at by the poem when Allan Parrish (Robin Williams) rolls him:
"A hunter from
The darkest wild;
Makes you feel
Just like a child."
But, none of the people who could have pointed it out in the movie do. Alan, Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt), or Carl "the soul man" Bentley (David Allen Grier).
Not even when they discuss Alan's relationship with Van Pelt:
DesignINcase
Given how long it's been, they may not have recognized him. Also it's magic, could be he only looks like that to Alan.
ZoBrightlance
Yes. Also a Peter Pan reference, though more to the role itself. In the stage play, Mr. Darling and Captain Hook are often cast as the same actor.
semiAutomaticFun
Someshithead241
In almost all of the movies too. Almost. The horrible new one abandoned that tradition
thedudeman519
They also did this in the 2003 adaptation with Jason Isaacs
2graves
The Robin Williams version? It's not like there's another silly 🪿
HandoB4Javert
Snograt
Carry on, Darling.
HandoB4Javert
Higure
In theater, it is common to reuse actors not for any symbolic reason but just for practical and economical reasons because otherwise you'd have two actors, both of whom have nothing to do for half the play (or more).
JimFromMarketing
It's also common that you SUCK
lol nah, but what Omegasaurus said though
Omegasaurus
It is also common that the double-casting is thematic, such as in the examples given.
Tjitso
Like in Swan Lake, both the leading roles are often the same danser
downvoteifyouhatekittens
And that has anything to do with Jumanji because??.... Why use a tradition from a completely different story? Uts just referencing him confronting his father. Nothing more
stupidfxckwithbrilliantluck
Because theatre and cinema often borrow from each other as homage.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
But theres literally no evidence in this at all, got a quote from the director or something? Than I'll believe you. Otherwise this is just a classic looking into something more than it is.
Thorinori
Hmm if only there was another famous, well received movie that had come out slightly before Jumanji where Robin Williams played Peter Pan (Pssst there is)
Chilichunks
Just take the L, Jesus. It's okay for you to not understand, but damn.