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Re: What other role(s) should Robert Newton have played?

Author:
Susan

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Date Posted: 14:56:37 07/22/06 Sat
In reply to: Susan 's message, "What other role(s) should Robert Newton have played?" on 11:01:24 05/17/02 Fri

To go with the all-new poll question (<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.mooncove.com/newton/vote.htm),">http://www.mooncove.com/newton/vote.htm),</a> I dug down into the archive and reactivated this topic to go along with it, since, as usual, the polling system only allows 10 choices.

So if you don't see your choice on the list in the voting booth, or would like to elaborate on your choice(s), please chat away here.

Unfortunately, I had to deactivate the previous poll question due to the malicious attempts by a particular pair of voters to skew the accuracy of the statistics (which, due to the nature of the question, was set up to allow only one vote per person but which they somehow found a way around). The numbers have thus been reset to the statistics collected as of early July 13 (before the attack occurred), showing that 74 percent of you first became a fan of Robert Newton through his role as Long John Silver.

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Author: Chuck [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:43:26 07/22/06 Sat I voted for a historically accurate version of Blackbeard and also for other I would cast him as Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies (not that there is anything wrong with the current Hagrid). [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Re: What other role(s) should Robert Newton have played?

Author:
Sue G.
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Date Posted: 14:45:57 07/26/06 Wed

I am going to add: Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (I think this may be on the poll), Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, either role of Fletcher Christian or Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty, and for a more recent movie (or rather mini-series)Father Ralph in the Thorn Birds. I'm sure that I will come up with more as I think more on this subject.

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Trisha
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Date Posted: 19:15:41 07/27/06 Thu

Chuck,

You must have read my mind. I think RN would've made a fabulous Hagrid! RN's enthusiasm and gift for "hamming" up a character would've made him great for that part.

Anyway, I would also like to add that I think RN would have made a wonderful Sir John Middleton in Sense and Sensibility for the reasons I mentioned in the last sentence of the previous paragraph.

Your friend,
Trisha :-)

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: What other role(s) should Robert Newton have played?
Author: Sue G. [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 21:40:32 02/05/07 Mon Now that I have been introduced to the Harry Potter movies, I think RN would have been a good choice for Hagrid or Snape (again, not that there is anything wrong with Robbie Coltrane or Alan Rickman) but I could see RN in those rolls too. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]