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Think of a writer/philosopher/poet/author/thinker...

Now cast an actor to play him in his biopic

>> No.4889622

Nietzsche
>Keanu Reeves

>> No.4889625

George r r martin
>Rob Reiner

>> No.4889642

>>4889625
I have a college professor that looks absolutely like him, and even has that silly old man who doens't give a fuck vibe.

>> No.4889643

Kierkegaard
>Owen Wilson

>> No.4889644

>>4889643
ewww no

>> No.4890380

John le Carré
>Benedict Cumberbatch

>> No.4890399

>Nietzsche

Liam Neeson

>> No.4890402

>>4889643
Fuck u


George Orwell
George clooney

>> No.4890405

>>4890399
hilarious

>> No.4890411

Karl Marx
>One of those odd-looking actors from Crispin Glover's What Is It?

>> No.4890425

Stirner
>Hugh Grant

>> No.4890445

Wittgenstein
>Benedict Cumberbatch
Kant/Aristotle
>Ian McKellen

>> No.4890463

>>4890445

>Wittgenstein
>>Benedict Cumberbatch

after that julian assange abortion his bio actor status has been tainted for a long time to come

>> No.4890465

>>4890463
Didn't watch that, he's a perfect functioning autistic Sherlock though.

>> No.4890493

>>4890463
he was p good as stephen hawking in some made for tv movie in like 2005

>> No.4890503

I could see Casey Affleck as CS Peirce. It might make for a fun movie with William James getting high and talking about how Hegel suddenly makes sense.

>> No.4890524

>>4890411

>Karl Marx
>not played by Groucho Marx

fucking dropped.

>> No.4890533

Yukio Mishima
>Tao Lin

>> No.4890553

>Hemingway
Jon Hamm
>Camus
Joseph Gordon Levitt
>Fitzgerald
Toby Maguire
>Frost
Hugh Grant
>Gertrude Stein
Kevin Spacey

>> No.4890576

Was DFW that tall

>> No.4890605

Socrates
>Zach Galifianakis
young Plato
>John Cena
old Plato
>Zach Galifianakis

>> No.4890615
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>>4890553
>Gertrude Stein
>Kevin Spacey

>> No.4890632

>Adolf Hitler
Michael Cera

>> No.4890641

>>4890632
You're a funny guy.

>> No.4890663

>>4890553
>Camus
>Joseph Gordon Levitt

Wow yes. That is absolutey spot on.

>> No.4890722

>>4889643
What?
Ryan Gosling could do it.

>> No.4890726
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>>4890641

>> No.4890735

Willem Dafoe - Aldous Huxley

>> No.4890812
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>> No.4890815

>>4889643
that would rule

>> No.4890816

>>4890605
Diogenes - Billy Connolly

>> No.4890821

Kafka

James Franco

>> No.4890833

>>4890821
Best/most inspired choice in the thread.

But it would only work if Franco writes and directs the movie himself.

>> No.4890845

Decartes
Johnny Depp

>> No.4890869

Viggo Mortensen - dostoevsky
jack nicholson - philip k dick
the director from community - foucault

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>>4889609
>check wiki
>Cast
>Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace
>Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky
>Ron Livingston as Bob Levin
>Alex Tarr's Volvo as 1989 Volvo driven in the movie
>Alex Tarr's Volvo as a Volvo
>Volvo
>Cast

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>>4890553
>Hemingway
>Not George Clooney

>> No.4890917

>>4890553
>Gertrude Stein
>Kevin Spacey

I would so watch this

>> No.4890958

daniel craig - dostoyevski
ben kingsley - heidegger
willem dafoe - m. foucault

>> No.4890992

>>4890605
>Socrates
>>Zach Galifianakis

YES

>> No.4891160

Sergey Nechayev
Christian Bale

>> No.4891191

>>4890821
>any author that i like
James Franco

>> No.4891195

>>4889609
>Thomas Pinecone

Bill fucking Murray

>> No.4891202

virginia woolf
anne hathaway

>> No.4891233
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4891233

Marcus Aurelius
>Anthony Hopkins
Resemblance isn't even a factor. Hopkins is just endlessly composed and incredibly articulate.

>> No.4891249

>>4891233
Who played Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator?

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>>4891233
>>4891233
I thought Richard Harris did an excellent job, despite his short screen time.

He was also the superior dumbledore.

>> No.4891269

>>4891254
Yeah, he was really great. It felt like he put some real research into his writings. You could see the stoic ideals just oozing out of his every action and expression.

>> No.4891298

>>4890821
>>4890833
Is this a troll? His movies repeatedly receive shit reviews.

>> No.4891316

zizek.

christoph waltz.

>> No.4891320

Immanuel Kant
>Samuel L. Jackson

>> No.4891331

>>4891320
wtf...

>> No.4891336

>>4891320

No, Bertrand Russell
>Samuel L. Jackson

>> No.4891338

>>4890958

Foucault

>Ben Kingsley

>> No.4891342

>>4891316

Would watch

>> No.4891345

>>6512544

>> No.4891347

>>4891345

>>6512544

>> No.4891350

>>4891347

wtf screw this

>> No.4891352
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4891352

Aidan Gillen

>> No.4891360

>>4891345
>>4891347
>>4891350
what are you doing, m8?

>> No.4891382

>>4891360

trying to quote from another thread on /lit/

>> No.4891391
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4891391

>>4891352

aidan gillen would actually be an amazing ezra pound

>> No.4891477
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4891477

albert camus
>maurice ronet

>> No.4891519

>>4891391
>>4891352
4 U

>> No.4891547

>>4891352
Looks like Edward Norton.

>> No.4892088

Michael Shannon as Wittgenstein

>> No.4892111

Haruki Murakami
Jackie Chan

>> No.4892123

>>4891352
It's a pity that Aiden Gillen is an awful actor.

>> No.4892127

Michael Palin as Wittgenstein

>> No.4892142
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4892142

Michael Shannon is... Jean-Paul Sartre.

>>4892088

I SAID, Michael Shannon is... Jean-Paul Sartre.

>>4892127

He looks crazy like him in that one photo, yeah. But I think Hugh Dancy could maybe pull it off.

>> No.4892153

Sigmund Freud
Tom Cruise

>> No.4892157

>>4892123
WE'VE GOT A HOTHEAD OVER HERE

>> No.4892172

>>4892153
John Travolta as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

>> No.4892186

Vonnegut
>I have no idea

>> No.4892194

>>4892186
Russell Crowe would be a good match.

>> No.4892202

Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand

>> No.4892221

Feuerbach
Nicolas Cage

>> No.4892252
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4892252

Spinoza
Dwight Schultz

>> No.4892266
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4892266

>>4890722

>Hey girl, wanna talk about God?

>> No.4892270

>Tao Lin
Jackie Chan

>> No.4892277

Sade
Geoffrey Rush

Acting like in Quills, but with an actual good script this time.

>> No.4892285

>>4892252
>spinoza
>not david schwimmer

>> No.4892291
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4892291

RD Laing
Peter Capaldi

>> No.4892292

>>4891298
I didn't know Kafka made movies, let alone shitty ones.

>> No.4892301

patrick stewart - lenin
buscemi - wyndham lewis
sylvester stallone - mishima

>> No.4892308

>>4892186
he played himself in Back To School…

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>>4892301
ok, too late

>> No.4892368

>>4892292
To be fair, casting a Green Goblin as Kafka sounds like it fits the bill.

>> No.4892375

>Adolf Hitler
Charlie Chaplin

>> No.4892472

>>4892194
Sike naw doe is u crayzee

>>4891352
This

>>4890902
This

>>4890663
This

>>4890992
This

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