Scene Stealers

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Jason Robards in All the President's Men. He kicked SO MUCH ASS as Ben Bradlee, winning a well-deserved Oscar for his performance. He is competing with to film icons - Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman but the movie, imo, is his. I honestly think the film would have been much worse without his performance. I wish it were remembered more fondly or often these days.

[slashgirl]

Edward Norton was not only a scene stealer in Primal Fear, he stole the film right out from under Richard Gere. Not bad for a film debut.

[india7]

^^^ Totally!

[indygirl]

Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

He had all the best lines and just gutted his goody two shoes image. His performance was a thing of beauty.

[kateln]

And has nobody mentioned Robert Duvall in To Kill a Mockingbird? OK, it was a lot to do with great directing working in his favour in *that* scene - that camera was allowed to really linger on him. But still, you need to really have talent to pull it off without being over the top. He could so easily have just pulled a plaintive puppydog expression and it would have just looked cloying.

I cry everytime this scene comes on--without fail. It just kills me.

[thvar]

Christopher Walken as Gabriel in The Prophecy series. He stole all his scenes, save those with Viggo Mortensen playing Lucifer. Best. Lucifer. Ever.

Ving Rhames in the first Mission Impossible (through hard work and perserverance, I managed to forget the second one and am waiting for the third's dvd release). "There was never any physical evidence I had anything to do with that... that... that wonderful piece of work" cracks me up every time.

AND the (IMO of course) archetypal scene stealer: Anjelica Houston as Maerose Prizzi in Prizzi's Honor. She was perfect. Yes, I love her, and therefore I'm hardly objective, but I dare you to find anything amiss in that role. Perfection.

(oh, and I wholeheartedly second, third, whatever, Bill Nighy in Love Actually. And add Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He was great as Slartibartfast).

[mariposalabrown]

Oooh, my favorite line from Drop Dead Gorgeous:

"That's why we Lutherans use grape Kool-Aid for the blood of Christ".

I thought Keenan Thompson stole Snakes on a Plane.

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indygirl said:

Neil Patrick Harris in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.

He had all the best lines and just gutted his goody two shoes image. His performance was a thing of beauty.

Yes. I agree. I laughed my ass off.

[slashgirl]

Mandy Moore was hilarious in Saved!, parodying her "good girl" image beautifully, unlike, say, Twitney in Will & Grace.

[esoterica]

I was just watching some of my old Blackadder tapes the other day, and I'd forgotten what a scene stealer Tony Robinson was as Baldrick. That's tough to do when you're in a scene with Rowan Atkinson, Steven Fry, Miranda Richardson and Hugh Laurie.