What is Role Association?

Role Association is when you take a movie and replace its characters with characters that the actors played in other movies. Here is an example. Has anyone seen the 2005 superhero thriller film Batman Begins? It's one of my favourite movies of all time. In that film, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in American Psycho) seeks Qui-Gon Jinn's (Liam Neeson in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) guidance to learn how to fight injustice. When he learns that Qui-Gon plans to destroy his city, believing it to be beyond saving, Patrick returns home, where he becomes a costumed vigilante, teaming up with Commissioner Sirius Black (Gary Oldman in Harry Potter), God (Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty), the CEO of his father's company, and his butler, Nigel Powers (Michael Caine in Austin Powers in Goldmember), to save his city (and childhood friend Joey Potter (Katie Holmes in Dawson's Creek)) from a terrorist attack. Are you impressed with my way of thinking? Maybe you should try it.

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  1. JoshuaLitwin1 June 2017 at 18:46

    In one of my favorite movies, Forrest Gump is jealous of Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor and attempts to get rid of him, but they end up both getting lost! With help from Billy Sherbet and Cliff Clavin, they eventually make their way home.

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  2. Unknown3 June 2017 at 16:15

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  3. Unknown3 June 2017 at 16:32

    I am pretty impressed, Toby. I wonder if there are other people who have written about this before... maybe you might be the first!?

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  4. Unknown27 June 2017 at 17:57

    I saw batman begins it was action the villain of the movie was ra al ghul

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  5. tobyphillipgold@gmail.com27 June 2017 at 17:58

    I am not the first, and Guilio, the actor who played Ra's al Ghul also played Qui-Gon Jinn.

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