Picspam: Looking for Alaska Casting
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
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I came across this book after stumbling across Brotherhood 2.0 and getting hooked and after hearing about this book quite a bit in the videos, my interest was piqued. So I trekked to my nearest bookstore and picked up the copy and fell in love. It’s such an amazing book. It makes you happy and it makes you cry and it makes you want to go out and look for your own Great Perhaps and it makes you wonder about the labyrinth of suffering. It’s awesome. I highly reccomend it.
Apparently, Josh Schwartz is slated to write/direct a movie version in 2010, which I think will be very interesting.
Shia Labouf or Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I really wanted that mix of dorky boyish-ness with the hotness that you’d believe that someone like Alaska would be interested in him, plus the ability to act both clueless, invested and totally devastated.
Now is as good a time as any to say that she was beautiful. In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, when the burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in pale red light… She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to every endeavor. And not just beautiful, but hot, too…
Rachel Bilson or Mila Kunis
I really like Rachel for Alaska (even if she’s a bit too old to be playing a high-schooler anymore). She has that quirky, high-energy presence, but can be dark and closed-in too. She’s also totally cute and gorgeous. Plus, there's this dorky cartoon that's from John Green's website, and there's the Josh Schwartz connection.
…I saw a short, muscular guy with a shock of brown hair…. He stood five feet and nothing, but was well-built, like a scale model of Adonis…
Tyler Hilton or Michael Seater
I had such a hard time picking his one. Neither of these guys is all that short, but in my head I stuck with the big personality of the Colonel, so that’s why I ended up with bigger dudes.
The Colonel introduced me (as “Pudge”) to the guys at the wobbly wooden table, but I only registered the name Takumi, whom Alaska had mentioned yesterday. A thin Japanese guy only a few inches taller than the Colonel, Takumi talked with his mouth full as I chewed slowly, savoring the bean-y crunch.
Leonardo Nam or John Cho
Again, neither of these guys is very short, but oh well. I think both could have the potential to portray Takumi's layers.
By a happy coincidence, a cute sophomore named Lara ended up sitting on my lap. Lara’d been born in Russia or someplace, and she spoke with a slight accent.
Anya Rozova
Yes, the girl from America’s Next Top Model. But she’s gorgeous and adorable and Russian and has a quirky accent.
”Mr. Starnes. Code name: the Eagle. The dean of students. Most of the teachers live on campus, and they’ll all bust you. But only the Eagle lives in the dorm circle, and he sees all. He can smell a cigarette from like five miles.”
Mandy Patinkin or Jeff Goldblum
Stern and authoritative, but with some compassion and understanding.
Just then, the Old Man shuffled in. He breathed slowly and with great labor through his wide-open mouth. He took tiny step toward the lecturn, his heels not moving much past his toes… “My names,” he said, “is Dr. Hyde. I have a first name, of course. So far as you are concerned, it is Doctor… And when you are here, you will listen to what I say.” Clearly not an easy A.
Christopher Plummer
Since Hr. Hyde gives some good guidance to Miles and is sort of a spiritual guru, I wanted to choose someone who had a commanding presence and could be a little be scary, but also be a teacher-friend and come off as really wise.
It took me a minute to remember who Sara was: the Colonel’s girlfriend…
Sarah looked awfully nice in her blue summer dress. Her long, pale blond hair was pulled up into a twist, with a strand of hair falling down each side of her face. She looked like a movie star-a bitchy one.
Leighton Meester or Maggie Grace.
Both have the fantastic capacity to be beautiful and sweet and bitchy at the same time.
Two of them pulled my legs together while the other one-Kevin, I’d figured out-put his angular, strong-jawed face up so close to mine that the gel-soaked spikes of hair pointing out from his forehead poked at my face, and told me, “This is for the Colonel. You shouldn’t hang out with that asshole.”
Chace Crawford