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Aristus

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17. Hilary Swank and Russell Crowe are both too old for the roles.

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #16)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 01:00 AM

Jan 2014

Montag is thirty, Clarisse is seventeen.

I could more see Russell Crowe as Beatty. And as menacing as he can be, he doesn't have Kevin Spacey's quiet, but ominous sense of an explosion about to happen. Russell Crowe's performance as Bud White in L.A. Confidential (which Kevin Spacey was also in, BTW...) was a tour de force of quiet menace. But it showed him inflicting some brutal beatings.
Beatty can't be thought of as a character who can make your life hell by beating you up. He's a character who can make your life hell by filing a report.

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