Thursday, April 04, 2013

Do Dump or Marry - Motel Boys

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Today would have been the 81st birthday of Nor... that is, Anthony Perkins. Plenty's been said about how he never got out from under the shadow of Norman Bates - hell he eventually embraced it and went on and made all of the sequels so he must have had a sense of humor about the whole thing. (Has anybody ever read any biographies? I have not.) As a side-note - I can't find a single picture of him in the shower. Wouldn't you think somebody would've thought of shooting him in a shower at some point? I digress.

Now that we've had actors play both the role of Norman Bates and Anthony Perkins playing Norman Bates - although Hitchcock is woefully short on actual behind-the-scenes of that film, much to its detriment (god that movie's lousy) - I figured we could do one of these. One fella you have a quickie in the shower with (do), one fella you sink in the swamp out back (dunp), and one fella you bring home to Mother (marry). Your choices are James D'Arcy, who was actually good playing Perkins in the minute of screen-time that crappy movie allowed him...


... Vince Vaughn, who played Norman in Van Sant's remake...


... and the spectacularly good Mr. Perkins himself.


Hit the comments with your answers! (And anybody that writes in Freddie Highmore is a pervert.)(That said this is a post about Psycho, so perversions are welcomed!)

10 comments:

Joey said...

I feel like you have to keep Perkins because he was the original. Marry Perkins, dump Vaughn (even though I think he's hot pre-Wedding Crashers), and do D'Arcy on the side because I am sure Perkins would be down. Highmore could be the houseboy that Anth and I keep around to walk around the house in little shorts. Pervy? Yes. Do I care? Not one bit!

MrJeffery said...

do: vince
marry: perkins
dump: d'arcy
bleh: highmore

Anonymous said...

Do and Marry Anthony Perkins and dump the rest.

Everyone pales in comparison to Perkins.

shaun said...

Do D'arcy.
Marry Perkins.
Dump dump dump Vaughn (can you imagine the breath?).

Given that he's the spitting image of Perkins, but with better hair, can we write in our beloved Andrew Garfield? If so, that would change everything ;o)

Mondz said...

Do D'arcy
Marry Perkins
Dump Vaughn

Joe K said...
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Joe K said...

Do: Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates (Incidentally, Psycho is probably the weirdest movie during which to have a revelation about your sexuality. Just saying.)
Marry: Anthony Perkins. Clearly.
Dump: There's really no need for conversation here. Vince Vaughn looks like what potatoes have nightmares about.

Scot said...

This isn't part of your Do, Dump, Marry senario but here it goes anyway.
I'm at least as old as you so I've seen lots of Anthony Perkins in the movies. However, when I think of him it isn't from Psycho. He was perfect, absolutely, deliciously perfect, and I will always remember him in Murder On The Orient Express. Mr McQueen was at least as complex a character as Norman Bates. The entire cast was so good that the entire movie is simply sterling.

Anonymous said...

I haven't read any bios about the man himself but Tab Hunter wrote a lot about him and someone else who I can't remember. Tab's book was very good - not a lot of wild gossip but I loved it for the inside look at the movie industry and the studio star system. He came into the business as one of the last in the system and he knew soooo many. You'd like it even if you did know Tab before.

Lars said...

Speaking of perversion....

I would totally marry Highmore, have a foursome with D'arcy, Perkins, AND his grandson, then dump Vaughn in the backyard pond...