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avengangle

Adventures in Nerdery

Feb 25, 2010 21:04

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 ( Read more... )

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brighty18 February 26 2010, 03:41:46 UTC

I totally agree.

And it may sound unbelievable, but I don't really think of race when casting in my mind. I think this is because my only acting/directing/casting/production background is in theatre and opera where racially blind casting is pretty much the norm. When I directed South Pacific (don't really like the show) it was a split cast and one of my Nellie's was half-Japanese. That would not make sense in context of race but she was so... little and cute and perky and Mary Martin-like that she really read "Nellie." I also cast a half-Samoan girl and half-Cambodian girl as one of the Bloody Marys and at one point she asked me if it was because she looked the part. Actually, it was because she could sing and was a damn fine physical comedian and I told her that ( ... )

avengangle February 26 2010, 04:02:41 UTC

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 ( ... )

meleth February 26 2010, 05:36:06 UTC

Taye Diggs in spandex

Oh. Oh my. I think I'm going to have to take that image over to the corner and go with it to make sure that nobody disturbs it.

crankyoldgoat February 26 2010, 11:07:05 UTC

actually - Charisma Carpenter in spandex.

hi_amity_an_elk February 26 2010, 20:01:51 UTC

Fen, the actual plural of 'fan,' is too complimentary for the people I'm referencing.

did you make this up? is it a joke i don't get?

avengangle February 27 2010, 03:09:05 UTC

No? Fen is actually the plural of fan-as-in-fanatic.

crankyoldgoat February 27 2010, 18:08:37 UTC

actually, fan is short for fanatic.

however, fen is used in the context of multiple fan(antic)s where, individually, each fan(natic) has taken their enthusiasm for a given subject to the extent that there could be serious doubts raised as to their mental stability or contact with reality.

Such as the individual who could provide a guided tour of the Klingon Bird of Prey on which Riker served as exchange First Officer in an episode of Next Generation. In Klingonese.