Sexing up philosophy

So here's an idea: presenting philosophy via Hollywood actors. People probably aren't interested in what the geeks looked like and it's the ideas that count, right?

So far I've got:
Bertrand Russell -- Kurt Russell (the unconscious association helps, I think)
Socrates -- Burt Lancaster
Plato -- the lead actor in The Bold & The Beautiful, whatever his name is

Suggestions?

Immanuel Kant -- Rutger Hauer
Descartes -- Jean Claude Van Damme
David Hume -- Fat Bastard (as played by whatsisname)

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Immanuel Kant -- Rutger Hauer
Descartes -- Jean Claude Van Damme
David Hume -- Fat Bastard (as played by whatsisname)

Nietzsche - Bobcat Goldthwait
Heidegger - Arnold Schwarzenegger
John Stuart Mill - \Danny Devito

Ayn Rand -- Sandra Bullock
Gottlob Frege -- Billy Bob Thornton
Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Christopher Walken

Jean Paul Sartre - Peter Lorre

Michel Foucault - Terry Savalas


But someone's ahead of us, sort of:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/27/graphic-novel-logicomix-bertrand-russell

Originally posted by DrKF
Michel Foucault - Terry Savalas


But someone's ahead of us, sort of:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/27/graphic-novel-logicomix-bertrand-russell

Sigmund Freud > Jerry Springer

Hobbes (of Calvin & Hobbes) > kmax87

Jesus (philosopher cited by GWBush) > Ricky Tomlinson

Giambattisto Vico -- George Clooney
Willard Ormond Quine -- John Cleese
Jacques Derrida -- Jerry Seinfeld

(Apologies - in a rush, so no time for the other thread.)

I thought you might be interested in these as part of your project:

http://www.theorycards.org.uk/main.htm

and these:

http://www.theory.org.uk/action.htm

Spinoza - Alan Rickman

I like Natalie Portman better than Sandra Bullock for Rand.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I like Natalie Portman better than Sandra Bullock for Rand.

Originally posted by rwingett
I think Ernest Borgnine in drag would make a good Rand.