Movies in which the main characters are never in a scene together -

[Rabrrrrrr]

The Star Trek II thread got me thinking on this.

In Star Trek II, Kirk and Khan are never in the same scene (not physically, anyway). They talk over communicators, and in once scene they communicate over visual, but they are never physically in the same scene.

In Shatner's short video he did after Ricardo died, he mentioned that during the filming he and Ricardo would have to go out of their way to actually see other, and how odd it was acting without ever seeing or hearing the guy he was acting against.

Any other movies in which the main characters never actually share a scene together?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. 84 Charing Cross Road ~ 1987

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090570/

[lost-in-nj]

2. oh I love this movie

:hi:

lost

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Yeah, It was a good one...

;) :thumbsup: :hi:

[alphafemale]

3. Godfather II, Pacino - Deniro

But since there was supposed to be a generational time difference I guess that's not surprising.



:P

[fishwax]

4. The Godfather II

DeNiro's Young Vito Corleone and Pacino's Old Vito Corleone

[oedura]

9. No, sorry...

DeNiro was young Vito Corleone and Pacino was Michael Corleone.

Marlon Brando was old Vito Corleone, and that was in The Godfather.

[fishwax]

11. yeah, duh, don't know what I was thinking

first post of the morning and all that :banghead:

thanks for the correction :hi:

[fishwax]

6. No Country for Old Men (sort of)

There are three main characters: Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), Moss (Josh Brolin), and Chigurh (Javier Bardeem).

Tommy Lee Jones never interacts directly with either. He's never in the same space as Moss until he looks at his dead body in the morgue (and Brolin doesn't actually appear in this scene). He is very briefly in close proximity to Chigurh, but doesn't know it and they don't interact.

Moss and Chigurh do share a brief scene together, though.

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. Does over the phone count?

That conversation exhibits some of the greatest acting I've ever witnessed.

[fishwax]

20. The one between Moss and Chigurh?

When Moss is in the hospital bed in Mexico? I agree with you. It's a great scene all around. (I think that's the one you mean--I can't offhand remember another phone call among the three principals ... Moss and Chigurh also meet briefly in the hotel room, when Moss has the chance to shoot him but let's him be.)

[EastTennesseeDem]

22. *SPOILERS**SPOILERS**SPOILERS*

Yeah, that's the call I was referring to. Llewelyn did get a shot off in the hotel, but he instantly jumped out the window because all Chigurgh had to do was open the door and he had a clear shot. There was that one-sided shootout directly afterwards. Llewelyn got him in the leg but Chigurh got away. That's about as close as they got to meeting each other (except, of course, on the phone)

I still can't get over Brolin and Bardem in this scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d93VLmvqhiA

[fishwax]

24. hell's bells

You're right about the hotel--i was thinking of the book, where the scene plays out a bit differently. :)

:hi:

[EastTennesseeDem]

25. I've never read the book

Of McCarthy, I've only read "Blood Meridian" and "The Road". Dunno why I haven't read him more, since both those novels impacted me powerfully.

[Paladin]

7. "The Lives Of Others"

If you haven't seen it, trust me---you need to. The enormous, life-affirming favors the two main characters do for one another, without ever being in the same frame together....absolutely breathtaking.

[Pale Blue Dot]

13. That's a fantastic movie.

One of my favorites.

[Paladin]

19. Glad To Hear It.

It's made my Top 5 Best Movies Ever list, I think that highly of it......

[HopeHoops]

8. SimOne - that's sort of the whole idea - she's never with anyone but her creator.

[underpants]

10. Caddyshack-they got 3/4 of the way through and realized that Chase and Murray didn't have a sence

so the "Cannonball coming" scene was written between Murray Chase and Harold Ramis

[SoxFan]

12. Star Wars (Ep IV: A New Hope)

With the exception of the fleeting moment where Luke sees Vader go slap-chop on Obi-Wan as they enter the hangar, Pop and Junior never appear directly in the same scene.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway in "Network."

[lunatica]

16. Rendition

Quite a few characters are never in the same scene physically. Even minor parts like the torturer's daughter and her boyfriend the suicide bomber and the rest of the actors. The guy that's rendered and his wife (except for the last scene when he arrives home).


Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal,

Jake Gyllenhaal and Meryl Streep or Alan Arkin

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. "Frequency" may have... (spoiler)

Again, SPOILER








The timeline changes and allows for the father and son to meet in the final scenes but I can't remember if Quaid and Caviezal actually were in a shot together.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear Gidney N Cloyd...

Wasn't that a great movie? I haven't seen it in years, but I loved it!

Even my hard-headed husband loved it!

I don't recall if they were ever in a scene together either...

:hi:

[Doc_Technical]

18. Fail Safe

The president and his interpreter are in the
White House bunker.
The Secretary of Defense and his advisers
are at the Pentagon.
The Strategic Air Command General and his staff
are at the Omaha Command Center.
The bomber crew are at their airbase and
flying their bomber.

They communicate by radio and telephone
but they do not meet face to face.

[MrScorpio]

21. Best Defense

Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy were never in the same scene