Adventures in Nerdery

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So, pursuant to this, which I had read and Ben hadn't, Ben and I had a couple-hour-long, multi-part conversation on, well, who we'd cast for various roles in various comic-book-'verses, including Captain America

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Yeah, with movies, I guess, you can kind of fake depth/presence with fancy camera tricks, I guess. It's always nice when you get someone cast in a role who really can hold the screen -- frex, although not in the superhero genre, Martin Sheen as Jed Bartlet -- but they fake it so often that I guess we're not quite as used to it.

Or maybe we just don't know, you know? We're told that these men and women have charisma and just steal the screen every time they're in a movie, but they don't always. I can't think of the last time I saw a movie where the person who wasn't suppose to steal the screen stole it for reasons other than my personal preference for one actor over another. (Bad example #2: My Super Ex-Girlfriend. I totally watched it for Eddie Izzard. Although EI did manage to steal the show in a few other things, so maybe that's just him. But it's probably me.)

I was watching "Fiddler" with Ben (it was on TMC or something) and the song "Miracle of Miracles" came on. Ben said, "Yeah, this is my least favorite song in the show." I said, but it's one of my favorites! Which it is, because if it's done properly, Motel can TOTALLY steal the show. Which he did, in the version I saw in 2000 or something at Stratford. It was awesome.

This is getting rambly, but anyway. Yes. I wish they'd just cast someone who IS superheroic and not consider race or gender.