Starting this thread from another thread. Quoted others here.

jfv wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:57 pm

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:30 pm I’ve actually been tempted, in the past, to start a thread querying the PRF community: “Who Should Have Played Kurtz?”

Do it.

There are legitimate and also hilarious answers to this question.

Pembs wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:06 pm Not hilarious, and maybe not legitimate (ages), but Warren Oates or Ned Beatty would've worked for me. And Robert Duvall, but he was already playing the napalm guy

ErikG wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:10 pm Respectfully disagree. Brando played the defeated man, resigned to his fate but still in charge.

The Yeoman Ghost wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:30 pm I’ve actually been tempted, in the past, to start a thread querying the PRF community: “Who Should Have Played Kurtz?”

Karl Malden.

Mel Brooks.

klaus kinski

scarlett johansson much

she teases Colin Jost for buying a ferry but she's the one who bought a zoo

janeway wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:34 pm scarlett johansson much

That would be an interesting twist. Captain Willard falls madly in love at the end of the film.

jfv wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:55 pm

janeway wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:34 pm scarlett johansson much

That would be an interesting twist. Captain Willard falls madly in love at the end of the film.

with scarlett as kurtz? i was saying the omnicient ego the undeserved overinflated sense of... if shes all big and bald.. i don tsee captain williard in love

George C Scott

f scott fitzgerald

this movie needed some f scott

janeway wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 4:05 pm

jfv wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:55 pm

janeway wrote: Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:34 pm scarlett johansson much

That would be an interesting twist. Captain Willard falls madly in love at the end of the film.

with scarlett as kurtz? i was saying the omnicient ego the undeserved overinflated sense of... if shes all big and bald.. i don tsee captain williard in love

I guess there are a few different ways to look at this:

Who could play 'Kurtz', as in play the character as written, how Marlon Brando played it?

Or what could have been Kurtz, potentially changing the plot of the film?