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DCRed

Finland435 Posts

April 01 2012 17:50 GMT

#341

This was a nice thread before I started to think for a candidate for my own country

and if someone is going to post Samuli Edelman's pic here I'll come into your house and punch you in the face.

PhantomR32

Netherlands17 Posts

April 01 2012 17:56 GMT

#342

On April 02 2012 00:14 Golden Ghost wrote:
Although Rutger Hauer is probably the most famous I think we are better represented by Derek de Lint

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Sorry mate, but for me the only one that represents our glorious country could be:

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Huub Stapel as Johnnie Flodder in Flodder (1986). Oh and he's known for better roles too not just Dick Maas crap.
Because let's face it, 90% of the Netherlands is inhabited by types like him.

tooDARKpark

United States149 Posts

April 01 2012 18:05 GMT

#343

On April 01 2012 21:17 Creckle wrote:
Germany

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Udo Kier

Udo Kier is the freaking man.

eddiemads

United States15 Posts

April 01 2012 18:07 GMT

#344

no de niro?

zul

Germany5427 Posts

April 01 2012 18:09 GMT

#345

Men: Moritz Bleibtreu ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001953/ )

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He has done lots of different genres and performs very well in general.

Women: Diane Krüger / Diane Kruger ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1208167/ )

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Just because she is so beautiful in Troy and Wicker Park.

Shinji23

Germany4 Posts

April 01 2012 18:11 GMT

#346

On April 01 2012 03:36 MiningSchuhu wrote:
Til Schweiger for Germany

LOL

NO! Not at all.

Heinz Rühmann was the best german actor of all time.

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Deadeight

United Kingdom1629 Posts

April 01 2012 18:21 GMT

#347

On April 02 2012 02:21 Uraeus wrote:
The way most French people see themselves :

The looks of Alain Delon
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Worked with the best : Visconti, Melville, Godard
Starred in The leopard, The Sicilian Clan, The Red Circle, and Borsalino, where he played the character of Rocco Siffredi. Yup, you-know-who named himself after this guy.

The class and elegance of Yves Montand
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Talented actor and singer. Starred in Is Paris burning?, I as in Icarus, and Jean de Florette

The way with women of Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Was directed by Godard and Melville, starred in Breathless, l'As des As, Le Magnifique

The manliness of Jean Reno
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Works in Hollywood as much as in France. Starred in Leon (The Professionnal), Mission : impossible, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code.

The natural humor of Alain Chabat
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Became famous on TV with Les Nuls, who had a reccurent comedy program. He is also an occasionnal TV host. Sadly, most of his movies are crap and not funny at all. His works include : Didier, The taste of others, Asterix : Mission Cleopatra, La Cité de la Peur

The way most French people actually are :

The looks of Gerard Depardieu
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A slob, a drunk, and extremely vulgar with that. Considered a great actor worldwide though. Starred in
Green Card, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, The Last Metro

The class and elegance of Christophe Lambert
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The French JC VanDamme. Embarrassingly low culture too. Starred in Fortress, Highlander, Greystoke

The way with women of Jean Lefebvre
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Starred in many cheesy comedies in the 60s and 70s, such as la 7° compagnie, le Gendarme...

The manliness of Paul Preboist
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Lefebvre's partner frequent partner in crime... Often played looser characters, and starred in infamous comedies such as Mon curé chez les nudistes

The natural humor of Christian Clavier
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Lame actor with a huge ego who thinks he is funny. But he is not. Had success reciting other people's jokes, but his interviews reveal he is just an arrogant prick.
Starred in Les Visiteurs, Les Bronzés, Le Père Noël est une ordure

French women used to be :

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Carole Bouquet

Beautiful, classy, and the brains to match it. And poor taste in men (was the life partner of Depardieu)
Starred in That Obscure Object of Desire, For Your Eyes Only

Nowadays, it's more :

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Ludivine Sagnier

Sexy but not so classy. Starred in Swimming Pool, Peter Pan

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Marion Cotillard

Gorgeous, no doubt about that. But her interviews make you want to facepalm.
Starred in Inception, La Vie en Rose, Nine

I am still pretty happy with it, though!

Not French myself, but I think I probably would have gone with Clémence Poésy. She's just very... French!

nymfaw

Norway430 Posts

April 01 2012 18:42 GMT

#348

On April 02 2012 00:02 vasculaR wrote:

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ROFLMAO

hahahh so true

KuKri

Germany168 Posts

April 01 2012 19:03 GMT

#349

Poor US voters in here. They got too many options xD
I'd suggest De Niro, Eastwood or Bogart, just three out of roughly 10 that instantly come to mind^^

Kinski or Loriot for Germany.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

April 01 2012 19:23 GMT

#350

Penelope Cruz for Spain~

Mackin

Ireland181 Posts

April 01 2012 21:53 GMT

#351

On April 01 2012 18:30 Torte de Lini wrote:
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On April 01 2012 14:46 Waxangel wrote:
I'll pretend I'm Irish so I can say Liam Neeson

Yes, I wanted to say the same.
He doesn't sound at all Irish :x

Ahh yes he doesn't sound like someone who people from outside UK&Ireland view as typically Irish but you may not know that he's from Northern Ireland. We sound weird up here (Living NI atm) :D (I swear I would upload my voice but I don't want to alarm you!)...

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For those of you that want to hear some funny random NI guy

Arirtor

China76 Posts

April 01 2012 23:05 GMT

#352

For China :D
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He's so funny.

Aardvarke

104 Posts

April 01 2012 23:09 GMT

#353

Clint Eastwood for USA obviously;

Ain't nobody gonna mess with Clint Eastwood.

khaydarin9

Australia423 Posts

April 01 2012 23:43 GMT

#354

On April 02 2012 00:23 Subversive wrote:

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On April 01 2012 23:52 khaydarin9 wrote:

On April 01 2012 23:41 Subversive wrote:

On April 01 2012 23:05 khaydarin9 wrote:

On April 01 2012 22:46 Subversive wrote:

On April 01 2012 08:19 Latchy wrote:
No Aussies Yet?

Fine

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Geoffrey Rush (and I dont mean the Monkey by the way)

Geoffrey Rush is my pick too. Amazing actor and a really down-to-earth, lovely guy. He also continues to support Australian theatre and is really approachable in person.

Films: Quills, Shine, Munich, Elizabeth, Ned Kelly, King's Speech and stage work.

On April 01 2012 13:01 Scarecrow wrote:
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Lots of stage acting/singing + independent films + X-Men, The Prestige, Swordfish & Australia.

Hugo Weaving/Geoffrey Rush/Mel Gibson have better filmography's but don't personify aussie blokes in my mind.

I semi-agree, but for me, Rush evokes the larrakin spirit of Australia better. But that's just a preference thing. Love Hugh Jackman. However Gibson came to aus when he was 12, so technically American.

On April 01 2012 10:30 TheSwamp wrote:

On April 01 2012 07:46 Scribble wrote:
I feel like, sadly, Mel Gibson probably best represents the ideals of the majority of Americans. Perhaps that's too cynical. I'm not sure what American actor, in an ideal world, I would have represent the US. If it doesn't have to be an American; Ricky Gervais. If the country were to somehow sync its collective ideals to one actor, Ricky Gervais would be the person I'd like it to sync up with.

Mel Gibson is Australian.

(see above)

On April 01 2012 11:39 AndyJay wrote:
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Self explanatory...

He's not really ours

. But I nominate him for New Zealand.

On April 01 2012 10:56 absalom86 wrote:
Iceland:

No one.

I'm sure you have great actors, but if you won't name one - Bjork then! She was good in Dancer in the Dark.

On April 01 2012 09:05 Lowell wrote:

On April 01 2012 03:55 Hairy wrote:
What the hell - you're talking about the best actor to represent Ireland and no mention of this guy? :
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[ Dermot Morgan ]

He kind of looks like Daniel Radcliffe from the future oO

Agreed haha.

If you're after larrikin spirit, you should nominate Sam Worthington - word on the street is, he went through NIDA completely stoned.

Heath Ledger would have been a good pick, too, I guess.

Dancer in the Dark is probably one of my most detested films of all time, though, to be fair, it wasn't entirely Bjork's fault - mostly it was the fact that I don't think it achieved what it was trying to, stylistically, and also it was damn depressing.

Heath is a good choice for the same reasons, although I'd pick him after Rush. I think for the older generation I'd pick Rush and for the younger I'd pick Ledger.

Dancer in the Dark was a huge success. Björk won Best Actress at Cannes and it received the Palme d'Or. There were plenty of people who loved it and who hated it. Your comment makes it sound like the film was universally detested, when really, it would be fair to say it received mixed reviews. If you don't like Lars von Trier, or Björk, or the movie that's fine though.

As for Worthington, I quite liked him in Terminator but I think that Avatar was a piece of crap. Whether that's his fault or not, I wouldn't try to judge, although I'd lean towards it not being his fault at all. Whilst I haven't seen Somersault, none of his other performaces have amazed me. Being stoned at NIDA isn't my idea of a larrakin though.

Well, I did say "my", and I'm not going to derail this thread over your interpretation of larrikin. I wasn't a huge fan of, say, Superbad, as a film, either, but I suppose I wasn't its target audience - whereas I wrote my thesis on film musicals, and watching Dancer in the Dark still made me go "wtf".

Whoops, misread that as 'the' rather than 'my'. My apologies

. As for one's definition of larrakin though, I gave mine, and you gave yours. You should nominate Sam Worthington if you like :D. And as for target audiences and derailing, what I said about Avatar was no different than what you said about Bjork and Dancer (although I understand you're saying you were more the target audience for Dancer). And discussing our choices here is fine, it's not derailment, it's one of the purposes of the thread.

I backed the original Geoffrey Rush nomination about seven pages ago - in which I said I'd come to the thread intending to nominate Hugh Jackman but conceded that Geoffrey Rush was probably a better choice.

ZerONine09

United Kingdom42 Posts

April 01 2012 23:56 GMT

#355

On April 02 2012 08:05 Arirtor wrote:
For China :D
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He's so funny.

Sad, but probably the most accurate. I find him so lame.
I want to say Andy Lau for China/HK.
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LeoPenrose

Canada10 Posts

April 02 2012 00:15 GMT

#356

May I suggest for Australia: Guy Pearce
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As for Canada, I agree with Gosling and Nielson. But how about some Rachel McAdams?
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killa_robot

Canada1884 Posts

April 02 2012 00:15 GMT

#357

Clear China's representative should be Jet Li
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Jitsu

United States929 Posts

April 02 2012 00:27 GMT

#358

On April 01 2012 06:22 Mechwarrior wrote:
USA

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Do we even need to go into the films? Titanic, Aviator, Shutter Island, Romeo and Juliet, Inception....

I can't tell if serious or trollin'...but I still think it's funny how you pick this cat, and then neglect the only three movies he was actually good in.

IE: Gangs of New York, The Departed, and Blood Diamond.

le sighhhhhh

Vindicare605

United States16121 Posts

April 02 2012 00:31 GMT

#359

For Kazakhstan

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jk jk

Kich

United States339 Posts

April 02 2012 00:37 GMT

#360

On April 02 2012 08:09 Aardvarke wrote:
Clint Eastwood for USA obviously;

Ain't nobody gonna mess with Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood was enough of a badass to be the person represented to tell America to cut the shit during the superbowl.

But I'd have to go with Robert Downey Jr. strictly on the fact that he's the most baller actor ever.

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