Like, would you buy Travolta as John Gotti?

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/26/john-gotti-john-travolta-movie/

According to Marc Fiore — the CEO of Fiore Films, LLC — the Pulp Fiction star is in serious talks to play New York City mob boss John Gotti in Gotti, an upcoming film executive produced by Fiore about three generations of the crime family.

But I don't want this post to devolve into some sort of summit on modern masculinity now that three gay dudes have been mentioned in response to actors it's hard to perceive as being tough.

What about Tom Hanks?

He's played guys that get pussy before, and extremely believably-- he's a damn good actor. I just don't think he's a "tough guy."

Other gay men like Ian McKellen absolutely can play tough guys. So I wouldn't worry much about the stereotyping.

Tom Hanks I think could play a good head honcho villain-- like a conspirator or gangleader. But I don't think I could see him hand-to-hand combat with someone.

Maybe someone like William H. Macy?

He has in a bad lifetime movie, where his lover died of aids. He was a supporting character in the film.

Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.-Tyler Durden

>Tom Hanks I think could play a good head honcho villain-- like
>a conspirator or gangleader. But I don't think I could see him
>hand-to-hand combat with someone.

Yeah, he had the gang leader position in Ladykillers, but that's not exactly a tough-guy role. Even in Road To Perdition, though it's part the creation of the character (having this family guy core), he looks like he's playing dress up, especially compared to someone like Daniel Craig or even Paul Newman in the same film.

>Maybe someone like William H. Macy?

In Fargo, he's more weasely than tough, I guess. But he spazzed out in Magnolia, right? I think he could manage that kind of gone-and-snapped type of violent deviant. Like Gary Oldman-lite.

Not tough, but when he was decked out in all black in the end he had some gravitas.

Get Shorty
Pulp Fiction
Broken Arrow
Face Off

"It's all about the Benjamins, don't even recognize Georges"

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It turns out, him taking down that elephant single-handed is the toughest thing he'll ever do in a movie.

not as any type of lead, anyway

Never saw it.

his character turned out to be a pussy

the movie wasn't very good, though not as terrible as i expected

It wasn't much of an acting stretch imo.

he's a decent actor who i hope never tries to play anything close to a tough guy again

after doing wild & CRAZY KIDS in the 80s, that image of the chubby black kid with a fro hawk won't leave my mind...

over-actor extraordinaire

C'mon, Son. That's Van Wilder.

I thought he was terrible cast in Gangs of New York = way too pretty. He was alot better in Departed but I still don't buy him as a tough guy of any kind.

I buy him as the crooked cop, with all of the toughness coming from the badge.

he lost a bit of doughy
damn shame what happened to that boys face though
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You cannot hate people for their own good.

>I thought he was terrible cast in Gangs of New York = way too
>pretty. He was alot better in Departed but I still don't buy
>him as a tough guy of any kind.
blood diamond and body of lies were convincing enough.

it took me AWHILE to get past titanic in terms of buying him as tough, but he pulled it off well

maybe Segal with the knocked up goatee can do a Nic Cage Kiss of Death type thing.

He's a classically trained actor-- he's got chops, he's just not showing them right now.

Even Jonah Hill probably could... well, he could be creepy. Maybe not "tough" per se.

Like in an Elijah Woods Sin City way? Maybe.
Not Jonah Hill - Short and obese is not scary. He'd have to do a Pesci impersonation and I still can't see it. If he was paisan then maybe.

yeah, anyone in roadtrip...except the cheetah.

i thought he was just bout the most effeminate man in existence...

I missed The Mechanic screening this week but I'm convinced he can play tough after that western, Hostage, Alpha Dog, & 30 Days of Night.

Yeah, I said it.
The closer to forty, than maybe. I sorta buy Ethan Hawke and Tom Hardy. But the further you get from forty, the less I believe it.
Shia Lebouf and his look-alikes couldn't interrogate me into telling them my hair color.


"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

Since 1976

Bow to the awesomeness of Avery*Sunshine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvB1FYVDdng

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

aka Sweetchuck from Police Academy

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Not sure what the dare might be though.

Matt Damon wasn't very convincing in Green Zone either

speech?

And he had to throw 'underoos' in there???

WTF!!!!

I cracked up

Also, Damon in Bourne showed me Damon can be tough.

Which is 100% believable.

"It's all about the Benjamins, don't even recognize Georges"

not convincing at all

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

Yeah, he can play the sleazy cad, but never, never, NEVER be taken seriously as a tough guy.

"It's all about the Benjamins, don't even recognize Georges"

...just no, no no no no no -_-)p

it was as bad as you'd expect.

Katie Holmes - Batman Begins
Jessica Biel - The A-Team

a.k.a. Braxton from the Jamie Foxx show...

dude played Spyro, the leader of a violent gang in the 1996 film Original Gangsters. Most hilarious performance I've ever seen.....

Everyone else did but that character worked for me

to those about to rock...we salute you.

"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams

at least I thought so...