Chemistry. Some couples got it. Some don’t.
We were all reminded of this fact during Sunday’s Oscar broadcast — for three plus painful hours. Co-hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco were oil and water on stage; no casting director is going to be beating down their doors any time soon to pair them up in a movie.
But what about the truly great film couples?
I pondered this very important question as I vegged out in front of the TV last night, re-watching City of Angels. (I was tired, okay? Plus, that movie was made back in the days when Nicolas Cage was a good actor.)
Here’s my list of great film couples (in no particular order):
- Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling, The Notebook
- Vivenne Leigh and Clark Gable, Gone with the Wind
- Matthew MacFadyen and Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
- Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger (and Hugh Grant), Bridget Jones’ Diary
- Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
- Patrick Swazye and Jennifer Grey, Dirty Dancing
- Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
- Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were
- Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally
- Ryan O’Neal and Ali McGraw, Love Story
It’s not an exhaustive list. In fact, I’m sure I’ve missed one of your favorites.
What couple would you add to the list?
Remember — you can’t win if you don’t play.
No do overs
On Sunday night I happened upon a showing of The Way We Were on Turner Classic Movies.
Robert Redford
He has never looked better than he did in that film.
Perhaps Baz Luhrmann needs to watch it again, too.
The Moulin Rouge director is planning a 3-D adaptation of another Redford classic, The Great Gatsby, with Leo DiCaprio in the role that Robert made famous.
I think this is a very bad idea.
Don’t get me wrong. I agree Leo is one of our finer actors. And he looks very handsome with his hair slicked back, which the role of Gatsby requires. But Leo, to me, remains very much a boy.
That’s part of his appeal.
Even in the brilliant Revolutionary Road — which should have earned him an Oscar nomination — Leo was a man child, which made his performance all the more compelling.
Robert Redford is 100 percent man.
Sorry, Baz, just the idea of someone other than Robert in the title role is mind bending enough. How can you expect us to settle for anything else?
For anything less?
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