RIP Christopher Plummer

[TheSportsPredictor]

Legend:

Christopher Plummer Dead: Legendary 'Sound of Music' Star Dies at 91 - Variety

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Underrated as a Klingon general.



RIP, sir.

 

[exmediahack]

I was about to mourn Shooter McGavin. Got my Christophers mixed up.

 

[qtlaw]

Yet another fantastic actor lost. What a career from Von Trapp to Knives Out. Damn, may he RIP.

 

[garrow]

Great in so many different kinds of roles. Only person to be in the 1980s Dragnet movie....and a Spike Lee joint. RIP.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

So long
Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye!
I'm glad to go I cannot tell a lie
I flit I float
I fleetly flee I fly
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
So long Farewell
Aufwiedersehn
Goodbye--
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...
Goodbye...

RIP, good sir and Thank You.

 

[Splendid Splinter]

 

[User 150927]

Fantastic actor, tremendous career.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Looking at his filmography, he was the villain in the Dragnet remake with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks. A guilty pleasure. RIP.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Mackinac Island mourns
Jane Seymour’s manager in Somewhere in Time

Tony Winner & Hollywood Legend Christopher Plummer Dies at 91

 

[maumann]

So many great roles, especially as a heel, and yet he's "The Sound of Music" guy, which is amusing to me. His feelings about the movie mellowed over time, but for years he ranted about the sappy sweetness of the role that had no depth, the overdubbing of his singing voice and having to work with "Miss Disney," Julie Andrews.

Much like Leonard Nimoy or Judy Garland or John Lennon, I think performers look at each role or song as a moment in time, and move on to the next project. But as the audience, we pigeon-hole them into these iconic characters or one-hit wonders, and don't understand why they don't feel the same way about their stardom. And yet, to be remembered forever as Spock, Dorothy, a Beatle or Capt. von Trapp is sort of why they got into the thing in the first place.

But I can understand why the demons haunt people like Dustin Diamond, who couldn't get people to separate him from the character. And yeah, I can see where playing "Lullaby" for the 10,000th time might get tiresome to Shawn Mullins, even if the residuals pay for the nice house and car in the driveway.

 

[DanOregon]

He was outstanding in All The Money in the World as J.P. Getty. Can't even imagine Kevin Spacey (who was dumped after the allegations arose and they had to reshoot all of his scenes) in the role. One of those actors who had a great start to a career - a tough middle - and probably did his best work in the last 25 years.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

He was outstanding in All The Money in the World as J.P. Getty. Can't even imagine Kevin Spacey (who was dumped after the allegations arose and they had to reshoot all of his scenes) in the role. One of those actors who had a great start to a career - a tough middle - and probably did his best work in the last 25 years.

And did it six weeks -- SIX WEEKS!!! -- before the movie hit the theaters ... :O

 

[Sam Mills 51]

So many great roles, especially as a heel, and yet he's "The Sound of Music" guy, which is amusing to me. His feelings about the movie mellowed over time, but for years he ranted about the sappy sweetness of the role that had no depth, the overdubbing of his singing voice and having to work with "Miss Disney," Julie Andrews.

Much like Leonard Nimoy or Judy Garland or John Lennon, I think performers look at each role or song as a moment in time, and move on to the next project. But as the audience, we pigeon-hole them into these iconic characters or one-hit wonders, and don't understand why they don't feel the same way about their stardom. And yet, to be remembered forever as Spock, Dorothy, a Beatle or Capt. von Trapp is sort of why they got into the thing in the first place.

But I can understand why the demons haunt people like Dustin Diamond, who couldn't get people to separate him from the character. And yeah, I can see where playing "Lullaby" for the 10,000th time might get tiresome to Shawn Mullins, even if the residuals pay for the nice house and car in the driveway.

Makes me wonder if he put more into those heel roles - did they become his Favorite Things? - trying so hard to play against being the head of the Von Trapp family.

 

[DanOregon]

I was surprised he was never in a Bond film. Same with Max von Sydow.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Plummer isn’t in this clip much but he was a key part of the movie
All three leads occasionally went to Mackinac Island for annual weekends celebrating the movie

 

[mpcincal]

Plummer isn’t in this clip much but he was a key part of the movie
All three leads occasionally went to Mackinac Island for annual weekends celebrating the movie

My friend and I saw this movie at the theater when it came it out, mainly because it was Superman in another movie. Not really the film you would expect two 12-year-old boys to appreciate, but I thought even then it was really good.
And it was my introduction to Jane Seymour, so there's that.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

And it was my introduction to Jane Seymour, so there's that.

When I was on the island a couple of years ago I went to the Grand Hotel but they charge you $10 to go on the grounds so I went to a nearby gift shop and snapped this

 

[WriteThinking]

So many great roles, especially as a heel, and yet he's "The Sound of Music" guy, which is amusing to me. His feelings about the movie mellowed over time, but for years he ranted about the sappy sweetness of the role that had no depth, the overdubbing of his singing voice and having to work with "Miss Disney," Julie Andrews.

As an admitted fan of "The Sound of Music," which I consider just one of the most beautiful movies ever made, I hate hearing and reading about this on the part of one of the film's stars.

Not because I could never see anyone feeling that way, but because I believe Plummer didn't appreciate the depth that he himself actually brought to the role. Whether he believed there was much inherent depth to it, or not, the viewers did, and really, that was a testament to his acting ability that should have been taken that way. Whatever he thought, it turned out to be a role he should have been proud of.

Who among us didn't see/feel the depth of the moment when the lonely, angry Capt. Von Trapp first played music on the guitar again while surrounded by his children in living room of the family's mansion? Who didn't sense the seeming chemistry that Plummer and Andrews at least seemed to project, regardless of how he may have actually felt about her at the time? Who didn't catch that look he gave the baroness when she broke off their engagement, knowing that she had lost him to a young woman, who, she predicted, "will never be a nun"? Who didn't get the depth of the feeling of sadness and love of country, about having to say goodbye to it, as he sang "Eidelweiss" at the competition from which they escaped? Who didn't feel the assurance he gave Maria when she brought up concerns about the idea of taking the children through the mountains on foot as he said, "We'll help them. They'll be alright"?

As I posited in the Dustin Diamond RIP thread, the role and the movie/show became recognized and even beloved because it was actually good -- and the actors made it better. It was a good thing, not a bad thing, that really, should have been seen as a compliment and a testament to them because they did such a good job with it. They gave it depth, personality, and life.