Just for laughs, something of the inverse might be Roeg's Performance.
Ha!
What's the significance of this? Why so many conditions? You must have
something very specific in mind. What happens if there are very few
films that match perfectly? Trying to force the data to fit your needs
for examples, eh? Just giving you a hard time. I'm interested.
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Film-Philosophy Salon [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Laura Jean Carroll
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 6:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: looking for double-role film
>
> Hi; apologies for cross-posting.
>
> I'm looking for a film to discuss in my thesis where a single actor
plays
> two different parts and the characters look alike or identical.
(e.g.,
> they
> are twins, siblings, doppelgangers, reincarnations, whatever.) It
needs
> to
> be an important part of the story that the two characters look alike -
the
> plot might turn on mistaken identity or something - but it's clear
that
> they
> are not, in the fiction, the same person (so not VERTIGO.) To be of
use
> to
> me the film must, must, must be adapted from a literary work (but not
a
> play), and inherit the look-alikes from it. (Ideally the actor in
question
> would be a star, or at least a familiar face; and the film would be
> something worth studying & thinking about.
> Thanks very much,
>
> Laura Carroll
>
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