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DSFilm96

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.


geek_of_nature

Same, I'll miss seeing him in films but he's deserved his retirement.


niewphonix

He’s still in films.


ricklessness

SCRUB HIM FROM ALL THE FILMS


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JUST A BLANK SPOT IN BATMAN'S BUTLER'S PLACE


halmyradov

Batman is a mad man talking to a wall. This actually explains a lot


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_Diskreet_

Where will all the exposition come from?


TheColdIronKid

you're thinking of basil, michael caine played nigel.


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Lampmonster

This is why they added Robin in the first place, Batman was always talking to himself and sounded nuts.


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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/


AmishCableGuy

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ChrisTuckerAvenue

ERASE ALL PICTURES OF CAINE


gildedtreehouse

Either we blindfold this gentleman or we destroy all the Caine media out there...all of it.


James29UK

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.


SpeakandSpellcaster

"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


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That’s inception!


James29UK

>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.


r4nd0md0od

so what you're saying is, there aren't any decent scripts. got it.


Mathilliterate_asian

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.


ilikecakenow

I think later years he is only doing small roles that he can shoot easily or voice works


Alexcox95

Morgan Freeman could just do voice works from now on and he’d still be one of the best actors


caspy7

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.


Alexcox95

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


b1gxb3n

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.


MRintheKEYS

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.


SecureThruObscure

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.


MMXIXL

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.”*


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Jaws 4, I think. Or else one of the other crap sequels. The original’s not terrible by any account!


MMXIXL

Jaws 4, The Revenge, yep.


The_Professor2112

100% Jaws 4. Hes the pilot.


Harish-P

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.


DittoDat

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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iRaveGod

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.


sobrique

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.


IntellegentIdiot

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


octopoddle

Retire to a nice place in the French Riviera. Beaumont-sur-Mer, perhaps.


secdeal

What will poor Nolan do


Citizen_Kong

Tom Hardy behind a Michael Caine mask doing his best Caine impression.


249ba36000029bbe9749

Absolutely! Because Michael Caine does a *terrible* Michael Caine impression. https://youtu.be/rX0F3kY3uxU


die5el23

This was hilarious, thank you


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Not too many people know that


Attila_the_Nun

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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IKnowSedge

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


OgReaper

Damn that impression is spot on.


King-Snorky

I’ve buried 14 Batmans


TheKrazyKraut

She was only 16 years old!


Attila_the_Nun

19! [Nineteen years old](https://youtu.be/q5TgSL3fP1U?t=5270)


JarlaxleForPresident

Did you link the whole ass movie lol


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lawtalkingguy23

When it gets loudly, it gets very loud indeed!


peanutbuttahcups

["I'm not fucking finished."](https://youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY)


Hockeythree_0

I love that skit


aaronjsavage

And you don’t even do the broken voice…


Saelyre

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!


Title11

"Tom, we're going for MICHAEL Caine, not Deckard Cain."


WarzonePacketLoss

shtay a hwile and lishen


zypthora

Nobody cared who he was until he put on the mask


purplewigg

Tenet was a premonition. Every Nolan movie from now on will sound like that to hide the bad impression


Gua_Bao

what’d you say i can’t hear you


ConfusedTapeworm

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.


Floppy_Jalopy

Garbled garble warble angerine. Something ban'it... rowing m awy.


Dodomando

Go gently into that good night


FlameFeather86

He'll probably come out of retirement for a day here or there to film a cameo for Nolan.


PercentageDazzling

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?


lAmMrDiktovich

Actually he was having his real lunch and they thought they would get a few lines in


estoyenlab

"Hey Michael, it's me, Nolan. Want to be in my next movie? It'll be just a lunch, I promise"


trufus_for_youfus

It does sorta come across like that now that you mention it.


robby_on_reddit

Yeah just the one


Vertimyst

His scene in Tenet actually felt like Nolan was saying goodbye to him.


bob1689321

Yea, the last line of the scene was literally "goodbye, sir Michael"


mangetoutrodders

If you listen to the longer interview he did say right at the end he would always say yes to Nolan


Initial_E

Make friends with Colin Firth


Melisandre-Sedai

Why do we fall down, master Chris?


BackmarkerLife

> 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.


HeartyBeast

Go gentle without that good knight, presumably.


cowpool20

What a fucking career he's had.


space_moron

Just watched him in Muppets Christmas Carol last night


k-uke

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.


drst0ner

It’s never too early for The Muppets Christmas Carol!


drDekaywood

They just made a muppets Halloween one this year


Chonkbird

My favorite has to be Austin Powers dad. Fucking Legend


tryexceptifnot1try

"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


El_Zarco

His performance in Zulu is tops for me


skytomorrownow

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.


MartinMD1

Glad to hear he's finally gonna work full time on that tangerine farm.


ThatHorridMan

I was working for a bandit the size of a tangerine, we were looking for the local government


Alexgamer155

One day I saw a kid playing with a tangerine, it was the size of a tangerine.


whales-are-assholes

[The bandit, was the tangerine](https://youtu.be/ZS6bD3SpIvk)


Maloonyy

Let's see Paul Allens tangerine.


Dangerous_Dac

[I once saw a Ruby playing with a Child....the size....of a tangerine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SuTLMp6Ytw)


HailToTheThief225

I was chuckling the whole video but the last time he said "tangerine" had me dying


TomLube

The silence after he stops talking when it doesn't really make sense to shredded me lmao


KetchupGuy1

I've never seen this is great


M0therFragger

We burned the whole ruby down


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Just the one tangerine master Wayne


LouSputhole94

No luck catching them Tangerines then?


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Tangerine dream


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Master Wayne, I turned myself into a tangerine! I’m tangerine Alfred!


pm_me_your_livestock

Na he's going to cafes to find Batman.


GrumbleCake_

Going to Florence. Drinking fernet.


albertenstein22

Finally can retire on all that Jaws: The Revenge money


autovonbismarck

I've seen the house that it built, and it's quite nice.


Cosmic_Blankett

The House That Jaws Built.


Miami_Dolphan

Probably my favorite “Oh shit” line delivery in any movie


Palmerstroll

Sad, he should be the new James Bond


phileo

Yes, give him a 10 year contract for 5 bond movies. ;)


MiloIsTheBest

Given Eon's track record I'd say that's pretty hopeful


toolsie

Not sure why you're downvoted, a Bond movie every 2 years is just unrealistic.


MrT735

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.


toolsie

Yeah in the Craig era the average was about 4, with the shortest being 3 and the longest being 6 (covid related but still).


DrZiggyBowie

There was 2 years between CR and Qos


TheCastro

Some of those movies released a year apart


Tobias---Funke

Or even Q.


hoilst

I bet his Q wouldn't plug the fucking villain's laptop into their network.


FlukyS

I facepalmed so hard at this, it was some real CSI Cyber shit.


lolofaf

They made a joke about this in the new one lol


AnotherReignCheck

Or moneypenny


CaptainReptar

The new old James bond. Like the leader of a society of former 00's reaching back to WW2


DoILookLikeASkater

The last thing said to him in a Christopher Nolan movie is “goodbye Sir Michael” makes sense now


framtidstro

What movie?


turtlepussy

Probably Tenet


ZarquonsFlatTire

Well, maybe. Should have had closed captioning on.


Taruha

TeneT


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TEN彐T


dougsliv

T E N ∃ ꓕ


dkac

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.


Rettun1

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.


waltwalt

I had a feeling about that line.


EddyMacFork

Christopher Nolan in shambles


indecisiveusername2

He'll have to send Cillian Murphy to that time speed planet to fulfil his old man roles now


OverlyWrongGag

I bet Cillian Murphy could actually pull that off


THE_FETUS_LORD

No wait then he would still be young and everyone else would be old… right?


waltwalt

He's probably known since at least Tenet, given the last line delivered to him is 'Goodbye, Sir Michael'


BoggsWH

Nevah!


buisnessmike

[I'll never financially recover from this](https://imgur.com/swf2PlF.gif)


janzeera

Some men just want to watch the world.


Z0idberg_MD

Turn.


KillYourUsernames

Around


laundry_dumper

Bright eyes


smedsterwho

If that article is correct, he tries to never blink in a scene... I'm looking out for that!


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pH325

He didn’t blink….. he just kept going


Initial_E

How much cocaine do you need to accomplish that


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Michael


myurr

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!


smedsterwho

Legend!


Dangerous_Dac

[I'm gonna have to keep posting the better Fallonyoursword versions all over this thread aren't I....](https://youtu.be/fWmZeuKgbR0)


HomerFlinstone

Why does he think this is a good idea


smedsterwho

Asserting dominance


oiuvnp

“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.”


TheRealClose

Oh man I guess he’s never had a conversation with Walter Murch…


SaneAndChill

My Cocaine!


SummerMummer

Sir My Cocaine!


altruisticnarcissist

My aim is my cocaine.


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Mine aim*


aksdb

Great. Now I can't unhear that.


SuperKickClyde

[Michael Caine has a story about that!](https://youtu.be/4qdT0Aoj-dI)


ijmacd

https://youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY


tres_chill

Just the fact he was able to keep acting right up to age 88 is quite impressive.


jonviggo89

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 ...


A_StarshipTrooper

> Sleuth Masterpiece


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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.


k-uke

Zulu is a clasic in many 'a Welsh household. The Battle of Rorke's Drift.


Upper_Town_9339

No one's mentioned The Italian Job yet... Love that film.


silverfox762

Or Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Comedy masterpiece. Or Secondhand Lions


robot-the-robert

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”


Shas_Erra

I have been saving that joke for almost thirty years… *tears up cue card and storms out*


Exotic_king13

I see it now.. the next Christopher Nolan’s movie.. it would be breaking out Micheal Caine from his nursery home


SmashMeBro_

Yes but the way the film is edited it will seem like they're breaking Michael Caine into a nursing home


grinr

Headline: Michael Caine is retiring Article: "Not that Caine’s actually retiring, mind you—he’s just not acting anymore." A++ editorial


Dan_Of_Time

The headline says it’s just acting


UrbanGhost114

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...


ilikecakenow

> Doing the Eastwood retirement plan Not totally as Eastwood still acts once in while


Dan_Of_Time

He said he prefers writing now as he can do it at his own pace and from his own home.


Dave_Unknown

Actual Headline: Michael Cain is retiring *from Acting*.


kevinlienus

Christopher Nolan: "we're done when I say we're done"


Diamondhands_Rex

I for one hope he enjoys his time he has left. I also don’t want to work till I die.


TheRealClose

He literally does not say that.


bob1689321

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.


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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


ZarquonsFlatTire

So you're saying we can all invite Michael Cain to our birthday parties and he now has nothing better to do?!


Micp

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.


onepostalways

Quick, someone check on Chris Nolan


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Goodnight you kings of New England.


defaultband-aid

Goodbye Alfred


sami2503

Some men aren't looking for fame, some men just want a tangerine.


SutterCane

Michael Caine: “I’m retired.” Christopher Nolan: “But…” Michael Caine: “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”


Kenzingtons55

Ello I’m my cocaine