And Harrison Ford was ill-cast as a nebbish bureaucrat in Blade Runner. That role really should have gone to Hoffman (the part was written for him IIRC). And yet now people cannot imagine The Graduate without Hoffman or Blade Runner without Ford.
There is an emotional aspect to memory such that an image of a seems wrong to us if there is not a familiar "feeling" to it. See Capgras Delusion. How many of these people "feel" wrong for the part below?
And how much of this feeling has to do with "right" casting and how much of it has to do with our emotional connection with having "imprinted" on the version of the film we saw? It's a bit of both, but I am suspicious when people claim "Only X could have played that part!"
There is an emotional aspect to memory such that an image of a seems wrong to us if there is not a familiar "feeling" to it. See Capgras Delusion. How many of these people "feel" wrong for the part below?
And how much of this feeling has to do with "right" casting and how much of it has to do with our emotional connection with having "imprinted" on the version of the film we saw? It's a bit of both, but I am suspicious when people claim "Only X could have played that part!"