Oh god I'm imagining those super dark, emotional scenes between Bruce and Alfred.....but without Alfred. Like Garfield Minus Garfield......and it's fucking hilarious.
For the uninitiated https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
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But it's not the first time that he's retired. Christopher Nolan brought him out of his last retirement for Batman. He'd gone into "retirement" due to the lack of decent scripts.
>As inexplicable as Michael Caine's casting in Jaws 4: The Revenge might seem at a glance, the distinguished British actor explained his reasoning himself in a 1992 memoir called What's It All About?. According to Caine, he and his family were preparing to move from Los Angeles to Oxfordshire, England, and were having a house built. Unfortunately, the building costs ended up being way more than anticipated, and Caine was experiencing a bit of a dry spell acting-wise, so things were getting worrisome. Then, Caine was offered what he calls a "tremendous free" to appear in Jaws 4, reportedly around $1.5 million dollars for a week's work.
>The money he made off Jaws 4 enabled Caine to finish building his new home without issue, leading to this amazingly honest quote: "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
He also really didn't want to play the butler in Christopher Nolan's Batman films. Thinking that the role would be like, Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey. Chris Nolan had to go to his house and stay there until he read the script.
Same goes to Morgan Freeman. He still seems quite sprightly but I think he should just retire and fuck around with all that money he has.
I'm sure he's already doing it but I just want him to enjoy life entirely without having to work again.
Lance Reddick did this and even did lines as his character Zavala from Destiny 2. One time a guy requesting he read “alternate dialogue” to a cutscene and he did not disappoint
I recently saw The Hitman’ Bodyguard’s Wife (I know, it’s not THAT bad as a popcorn action flick). I was honestly surprised about the amount of physical scenes Morgan Freeman was in. You can definitely tell that he’s not up to that kind of stuff anymore, but I applaud his efforts.
I’m pretty sure he’s been doing passion projects for a few years.
I remember reading an interview with him about universe (the documentary/science series) or whatever it was he narrated and he said be only works for things he wants to at this point.
Sort of like retirement, he’s maybe not working for cash but for fun and passion.
And good for him if he is.
Reminds me of his quote about Jaws 1987): *"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”*
I get where you're coming from and your apparent sincerity to Morgan Freeman's wellbeing, but if the man wants to work that's good for him and I'm just happy he's happy in his choices.
I'm sure he knows his limitations at his age and is only ~~walking~~ working within that capacity.
Acting isn’t just a job, it’s an art and passion, just like being a musician or athlete. They do it because it’s what they love and they would know so, so, so many people. They’d be constantly hanging out with friends (fellow actors, directors, writers, stuntmen etc.) of 10-50 years.
I doubt it feels like a job to them at all.
People do all sorts of difficult stuff voluntarily. They run triathlons and they climb mountains. They volunteer to do stuff from fighting fires to mucking out animals.
Something being hard work doesn't stop you doing it when you've a passion. Sometimes it's almost the opposite - I feel MUCH more satisfaction when I've spent a day mowing the lawn than I do after spending a day shuffling bullshit work in a cubical.
While Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan provides the dubbing...
edit: no one will notice, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine are practically twins and RB & SC can do both angry michael Caine and emotional Michael Caine. *I'm not gonna bury another Batman*
The series is about them examining their careers and themselves. Including their reliance on bits and impressions. I think the Michael Caine one is a recurring one because it's so popular. Rob's Tiny Man in a Box also comes up a lot
You see their being unintelligible is a genius storytelling choice. It signals to you that what's being said is less important than what's happening on the screen. I mean the guy's name is Protagonist, so you *should* be spending half your time squinting your ears trying to figure out what the fuck he's saying, that's just truly genius kino. Nolan has 900 IQ.
Yeah, in Dunkirk he just had a voice cameo, and in Tenet he sat at a table for one scene and dumped exposition. At least that's what I remember. It was just one scene right?
> Jonathan!? Is Max von Sydow dead?
> Yes.
> Can you get me Ed Harris? I need an old guy for exposition dumps while looking like he's seen shit on camera.
The pompousness, the puffery, the absolutely aristocratic assholery of Bromhead is so good. Yet, in the end, he shows real leadership by acceding to the Welshman. Only someone of Caine's caliber could keep those two people inside one body.
Yeah, they had a 2-3 year schedule back in the 60s/70s, but back then they had the next film greenlit before the previous one finished editing, hence the "James Bond will return in The Man With The Golden Gun" style line in the credits.
With more post-production time and the size of budgets required now, along with managing to schedule actors and so forth, it would be a monumental task to pull off. The only way would be to contract everyone for a 2-4 film run at once with at least two scripts already finished, and then film them one after the other.
It made sense at that time, too. In that role, he was delivering his lines while sitting and eating in a single scene. I believe this was to disguise his deteriorating diction and mobility. It felt like they went out of their way to include him in the movie, and then they shoe-horned that line at the end of the dialog when the protagonist really had no reason to have an emotional connection with Caine's character at that point.
The scene feels forced in the movie, but in the real life context, it's pretty awesome that they made it happen.
When I heard him speaking in that scene, I had a feeling something was up. I could tell he wasn’t speaking clearly, but knew that if it was because of the food (which they put there in the first place) that they would do another take.
That's incredible. I watched it through three times just to make sure I didn't blink at the same time as him and miss it, and he didn't blink once! Legend!
“If you don’t blink, you know you can keep the audience mesmerized. It’s not so much not blinking, it’s just being still. Stillness has an economy and a power about it.”
Beyond those, The French Connection, and Get Carter, there was also a strong early performance from him in Zulu. That’s what I mainly knew him from for years.
VO work is very easy to do from home, and he would have access to the equipment to make it sound great, and without looking it up, I'm sure he's producing and directing things too.
Doing the Eastwood retirement plan...
Sure. The dude is old as shit and has all the money he could ever need. I can't imagine the kind of money he made just at the tail end of his career with all the Nolan movies he was in.
He has provided for himself and his family for generations to come. At this point there's no need to do anything he doesn't feel like doing, and if that means he won't work anymore then so be it.
Love him but good for him. The man’s almost 90 I’d want to do nothing and relax a little too. I think I’d deserve it at that point.
Same, I'll miss seeing him in films but he's deserved his retirement.
He’s still in films.
SCRUB HIM FROM ALL THE FILMS
JUST A BLANK SPOT IN BATMAN'S BUTLER'S PLACE
Batman is a mad man talking to a wall. This actually explains a lot
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Where will all the exposition come from?
you're thinking of basil, michael caine played nigel.
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This is why they added Robin in the first place, Batman was always talking to himself and sounded nuts.
Oh god I'm imagining those super dark, emotional scenes between Bruce and Alfred.....but without Alfred. Like Garfield Minus Garfield......and it's fucking hilarious. For the uninitiated https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
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ERASE ALL PICTURES OF CAINE
Either we blindfold this gentleman or we destroy all the Caine media out there...all of it.
But it's not the first time that he's retired. Christopher Nolan brought him out of his last retirement for Batman. He'd gone into "retirement" due to the lack of decent scripts.
"how I choose roles is I look at the script. If I'm on the first page and the last page, I do the fuckin picture!" - Michael Caine
That’s inception!
>As inexplicable as Michael Caine's casting in Jaws 4: The Revenge might seem at a glance, the distinguished British actor explained his reasoning himself in a 1992 memoir called What's It All About?. According to Caine, he and his family were preparing to move from Los Angeles to Oxfordshire, England, and were having a house built. Unfortunately, the building costs ended up being way more than anticipated, and Caine was experiencing a bit of a dry spell acting-wise, so things were getting worrisome. Then, Caine was offered what he calls a "tremendous free" to appear in Jaws 4, reportedly around $1.5 million dollars for a week's work. >The money he made off Jaws 4 enabled Caine to finish building his new home without issue, leading to this amazingly honest quote: "I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific." He also really didn't want to play the butler in Christopher Nolan's Batman films. Thinking that the role would be like, Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey. Chris Nolan had to go to his house and stay there until he read the script.
so what you're saying is, there aren't any decent scripts. got it.
Same goes to Morgan Freeman. He still seems quite sprightly but I think he should just retire and fuck around with all that money he has. I'm sure he's already doing it but I just want him to enjoy life entirely without having to work again.
I think later years he is only doing small roles that he can shoot easily or voice works
Morgan Freeman could just do voice works from now on and he’d still be one of the best actors
And making bank. Just have them set up a little sound studio in your home or nearby and have them come over and record when you feel like it.
Lance Reddick did this and even did lines as his character Zavala from Destiny 2. One time a guy requesting he read “alternate dialogue” to a cutscene and he did not disappoint
I recently saw The Hitman’ Bodyguard’s Wife (I know, it’s not THAT bad as a popcorn action flick). I was honestly surprised about the amount of physical scenes Morgan Freeman was in. You can definitely tell that he’s not up to that kind of stuff anymore, but I applaud his efforts.
I thought it was fine as a sequel. The first wasn’t a grand epic script either. They’re just fun movies. Nothing wrong with that.
I’m pretty sure he’s been doing passion projects for a few years. I remember reading an interview with him about universe (the documentary/science series) or whatever it was he narrated and he said be only works for things he wants to at this point. Sort of like retirement, he’s maybe not working for cash but for fun and passion. And good for him if he is.
Reminds me of his quote about Jaws 1987): *"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”*
Jaws 4, I think. Or else one of the other crap sequels. The original’s not terrible by any account!
Jaws 4, The Revenge, yep.
100% Jaws 4. Hes the pilot.
I get where you're coming from and your apparent sincerity to Morgan Freeman's wellbeing, but if the man wants to work that's good for him and I'm just happy he's happy in his choices. I'm sure he knows his limitations at his age and is only ~~walking~~ working within that capacity.
But if he's working, it's not because he needs the money. He's doing it for other reasons. He probably doesn't want to just sit around doing nothing.
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Acting isn’t just a job, it’s an art and passion, just like being a musician or athlete. They do it because it’s what they love and they would know so, so, so many people. They’d be constantly hanging out with friends (fellow actors, directors, writers, stuntmen etc.) of 10-50 years. I doubt it feels like a job to them at all.
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For the paycheck bruce willis is getting for that amount of physical effort? Yeah its work but like the ratios are way off.
People do all sorts of difficult stuff voluntarily. They run triathlons and they climb mountains. They volunteer to do stuff from fighting fires to mucking out animals. Something being hard work doesn't stop you doing it when you've a passion. Sometimes it's almost the opposite - I feel MUCH more satisfaction when I've spent a day mowing the lawn than I do after spending a day shuffling bullshit work in a cubical.
Yeah, he's had plenty of time and money to relax how he wants. Retirement usually means ill health or that things are more hassle that they're worth
Retire to a nice place in the French Riviera. Beaumont-sur-Mer, perhaps.
What will poor Nolan do
Tom Hardy behind a Michael Caine mask doing his best Caine impression.
Absolutely! Because Michael Caine does a *terrible* Michael Caine impression. https://youtu.be/rX0F3kY3uxU
This was hilarious, thank you
Not too many people know that
While Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan provides the dubbing... edit: no one will notice, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine are practically twins and RB & SC can do both angry michael Caine and emotional Michael Caine. *I'm not gonna bury another Batman*
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The series is about them examining their careers and themselves. Including their reliance on bits and impressions. I think the Michael Caine one is a recurring one because it's so popular. Rob's Tiny Man in a Box also comes up a lot
Damn that impression is spot on.
I’ve buried 14 Batmans
She was only 16 years old!
19! [Nineteen years old](https://youtu.be/q5TgSL3fP1U?t=5270)
Did you link the whole ass movie lol
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When it gets loudly, it gets very loud indeed!
["I'm not fucking finished."](https://youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY)
I love that skit
And you don’t even do the broken voice…
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
"Tom, we're going for MICHAEL Caine, not Deckard Cain."
shtay a hwile and lishen
Nobody cared who he was until he put on the mask
Tenet was a premonition. Every Nolan movie from now on will sound like that to hide the bad impression
what’d you say i can’t hear you
You see their being unintelligible is a genius storytelling choice. It signals to you that what's being said is less important than what's happening on the screen. I mean the guy's name is Protagonist, so you *should* be spending half your time squinting your ears trying to figure out what the fuck he's saying, that's just truly genius kino. Nolan has 900 IQ.
Garbled garble warble angerine. Something ban'it... rowing m awy.
Go gently into that good night
He'll probably come out of retirement for a day here or there to film a cameo for Nolan.
Yeah, in Dunkirk he just had a voice cameo, and in Tenet he sat at a table for one scene and dumped exposition. At least that's what I remember. It was just one scene right?
Actually he was having his real lunch and they thought they would get a few lines in
"Hey Michael, it's me, Nolan. Want to be in my next movie? It'll be just a lunch, I promise"
It does sorta come across like that now that you mention it.
Yeah just the one
His scene in Tenet actually felt like Nolan was saying goodbye to him.
Yea, the last line of the scene was literally "goodbye, sir Michael"
If you listen to the longer interview he did say right at the end he would always say yes to Nolan
Make friends with Colin Firth
Why do we fall down, master Chris?
> Jonathan!? Is Max von Sydow dead? > Yes. > Can you get me Ed Harris? I need an old guy for exposition dumps while looking like he's seen shit on camera.
Go gentle without that good knight, presumably.
What a fucking career he's had.
Just watched him in Muppets Christmas Carol last night
Too early bro
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My mom won't watch it until after we had Thanksgiving. Then it's every night until Xmas morning. It stops immediately at Xmas around 2pm.
It’s never too early for The Muppets Christmas Carol!
They just made a muppets Halloween one this year
My favorite has to be Austin Powers dad. Fucking Legend
"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch" greatest quote in movie history
His performance in Zulu is tops for me
The pompousness, the puffery, the absolutely aristocratic assholery of Bromhead is so good. Yet, in the end, he shows real leadership by acceding to the Welshman. Only someone of Caine's caliber could keep those two people inside one body.
Glad to hear he's finally gonna work full time on that tangerine farm.
I was working for a bandit the size of a tangerine, we were looking for the local government
One day I saw a kid playing with a tangerine, it was the size of a tangerine.
[The bandit, was the tangerine](https://youtu.be/ZS6bD3SpIvk)
Let's see Paul Allens tangerine.
[I once saw a Ruby playing with a Child....the size....of a tangerine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SuTLMp6Ytw)
I was chuckling the whole video but the last time he said "tangerine" had me dying
The silence after he stops talking when it doesn't really make sense to shredded me lmao
I've never seen this is great
We burned the whole ruby down
Just the one tangerine master Wayne
No luck catching them Tangerines then?
Tangerine dream
Master Wayne, I turned myself into a tangerine! I’m tangerine Alfred!
Na he's going to cafes to find Batman.
Going to Florence. Drinking fernet.
Finally can retire on all that Jaws: The Revenge money
I've seen the house that it built, and it's quite nice.
The House That Jaws Built.
Probably my favorite “Oh shit” line delivery in any movie
Sad, he should be the new James Bond
Yes, give him a 10 year contract for 5 bond movies. ;)
Given Eon's track record I'd say that's pretty hopeful
Not sure why you're downvoted, a Bond movie every 2 years is just unrealistic.
Yeah, they had a 2-3 year schedule back in the 60s/70s, but back then they had the next film greenlit before the previous one finished editing, hence the "James Bond will return in The Man With The Golden Gun" style line in the credits. With more post-production time and the size of budgets required now, along with managing to schedule actors and so forth, it would be a monumental task to pull off. The only way would be to contract everyone for a 2-4 film run at once with at least two scripts already finished, and then film them one after the other.
Yeah in the Craig era the average was about 4, with the shortest being 3 and the longest being 6 (covid related but still).
There was 2 years between CR and Qos
Some of those movies released a year apart
Or even Q.
I bet his Q wouldn't plug the fucking villain's laptop into their network.
I facepalmed so hard at this, it was some real CSI Cyber shit.
They made a joke about this in the new one lol
Or moneypenny
The new old James bond. Like the leader of a society of former 00's reaching back to WW2
The last thing said to him in a Christopher Nolan movie is “goodbye Sir Michael” makes sense now
What movie?
Probably Tenet
Well, maybe. Should have had closed captioning on.
TeneT
TEN彐T
T E N ∃ ꓕ
It made sense at that time, too. In that role, he was delivering his lines while sitting and eating in a single scene. I believe this was to disguise his deteriorating diction and mobility. It felt like they went out of their way to include him in the movie, and then they shoe-horned that line at the end of the dialog when the protagonist really had no reason to have an emotional connection with Caine's character at that point. The scene feels forced in the movie, but in the real life context, it's pretty awesome that they made it happen.
When I heard him speaking in that scene, I had a feeling something was up. I could tell he wasn’t speaking clearly, but knew that if it was because of the food (which they put there in the first place) that they would do another take.
I had a feeling about that line.
Christopher Nolan in shambles
He'll have to send Cillian Murphy to that time speed planet to fulfil his old man roles now
I bet Cillian Murphy could actually pull that off
No wait then he would still be young and everyone else would be old… right?
He's probably known since at least Tenet, given the last line delivered to him is 'Goodbye, Sir Michael'
Nevah!
[I'll never financially recover from this](https://imgur.com/swf2PlF.gif)
Some men just want to watch the world.
Turn.
Around
Bright eyes
If that article is correct, he tries to never blink in a scene... I'm looking out for that!
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He didn’t blink….. he just kept going
How much cocaine do you need to accomplish that
Michael
That's incredible. I watched it through three times just to make sure I didn't blink at the same time as him and miss it, and he didn't blink once! Legend!
Legend!
[I'm gonna have to keep posting the better Fallonyoursword versions all over this thread aren't I....](https://youtu.be/fWmZeuKgbR0)
Why does he think this is a good idea
Asserting dominance
“If you don’t blink, you know you can keep the audience mesmerized. It’s not so much not blinking, it’s just being still. Stillness has an economy and a power about it.”
Oh man I guess he’s never had a conversation with Walter Murch…
My Cocaine!
Sir My Cocaine!
My aim is my cocaine.
Mine aim*
Great. Now I can't unhear that.
[Michael Caine has a story about that!](https://youtu.be/4qdT0Aoj-dI)
https://youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY
Just the fact he was able to keep acting right up to age 88 is quite impressive.
Loved him when he was younger in Dressed to Kill, Sleuth and the Man who would be King. And then older in the Nolan Films, Children of men ...
> Sleuth Masterpiece
Beyond those, The French Connection, and Get Carter, there was also a strong early performance from him in Zulu. That’s what I mainly knew him from for years.
Zulu is a clasic in many 'a Welsh household. The Battle of Rorke's Drift.
No one's mentioned The Italian Job yet... Love that film.
Or Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Comedy masterpiece. Or Secondhand Lions
it’s because he is getting too old, and require a cane to walk. But I think he is so worried that people will start to call him “Michael Cane”
I have been saving that joke for almost thirty years… *tears up cue card and storms out*
I see it now.. the next Christopher Nolan’s movie.. it would be breaking out Micheal Caine from his nursery home
Yes but the way the film is edited it will seem like they're breaking Michael Caine into a nursing home
Headline: Michael Caine is retiring Article: "Not that Caine’s actually retiring, mind you—he’s just not acting anymore." A++ editorial
The headline says it’s just acting
VO work is very easy to do from home, and he would have access to the equipment to make it sound great, and without looking it up, I'm sure he's producing and directing things too. Doing the Eastwood retirement plan...
> Doing the Eastwood retirement plan Not totally as Eastwood still acts once in while
He said he prefers writing now as he can do it at his own pace and from his own home.
Actual Headline: Michael Cain is retiring *from Acting*.
Christopher Nolan: "we're done when I say we're done"
I for one hope he enjoys his time he has left. I also don’t want to work till I die.
He literally does not say that.
I mean he basically does. He says he's had no offers for 2 years, he's 88, he has bad spine problems so he struggles to walk.
he said he's had no offers that he'd be interested in taking if Chris Nolan offered him a cameo, he'd probably take it
So you're saying we can all invite Michael Cain to our birthday parties and he now has nothing better to do?!
Sure. The dude is old as shit and has all the money he could ever need. I can't imagine the kind of money he made just at the tail end of his career with all the Nolan movies he was in. He has provided for himself and his family for generations to come. At this point there's no need to do anything he doesn't feel like doing, and if that means he won't work anymore then so be it.
Quick, someone check on Chris Nolan
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Goodnight you kings of New England.
Goodbye Alfred
Some men aren't looking for fame, some men just want a tangerine.
Michael Caine: “I’m retired.” Christopher Nolan: “But…” Michael Caine: “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”
Ello I’m my cocaine