Didn't anyone noticed that Mark Harmon was Playing almost the same Character like he was playing in NCIS? - Maybe a younger version, but everything is there: The Eternal Cofee,The incompetence with Technology, and the Cool "That-is-not-my-problem" look and behaviour when a killer points his gun at him...
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Seems to me it's a case of Mark Harmon playing Mark Harmon, a la Richard Dean Anderson on Stargate SG-1. The parallels between Austin and Gibbs are obvious.
shareI'm glad I've held onto my copy of Presidio. Harmon can be said to have grown between this movie, becoming Gibbs in NCIS, though much the same character.
William Petersen did the same going from Virgil Williams handling Hannibal Lecter to becoming Gil Grissom in CSI: CSI.
I am very much liking what producers and directors are doing with actors lately -- drawing from a past high-profile character to create the personality of a current one done by the same actor.
Cheers;
the0wl
Virgil Williams? Bill Petersen played Will Graham in Manhunter.
"I'll be in my bunk."
whoever he's playing. he's crossed the line more than once! heck, he's taunted the line! there is no line for this guy!
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Im a huge NCIS fan and was recently remembering The Presidio and thought of the similarities. Glad to see i was not on my own in that.
shareYes, totally noticed that. I just saw Gibbs.
shareI'm seeing a lot of DiNozzo, though not so many references made to the movies every 5 minutes! Watching it now, (though missed the first half!) and he's grinning and saying things to Sean Connery like "Hey! Trust me!" and chatting up a receptionist in a similiar way to DiNozzo - though to get information by the looks of it. A younger Gibbs may well have acted like this anyway, but wouldn't admit it to his younger peers.
shareDVR'd the movie tonight so my wife can watch; I have a few times, she has not, but we are both big NCIS fans, and yeah, Austin in "the presidio" is definitely the proto-Gibbs. Also, the shot during the opening creds of the Carl Vinson sailing under the Golden Gate is the same shot used in the opening on NCIS, probably a nod to how much influence this role had on how Mark Harmon plays Jethro.
shareThat's just... creepy. I've been following NCIS since it started 7 years ago, and i've NEVER made the connection. Had to pause/unpause repeatedly to get the scene to "appear" in the NCIS intro. But it definitely IS the same shot.
http://yfrog.com/nfncisvspresidiop
I'm seeing a lot of DiNozzo
Likely the casting director for NCIS saw this film and choose Harmon in part because of it.
You're a troll.
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