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re: Rush Limbaugh pouts about potential black James Bond
Posted on 12/25/14 at 9:32 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Posted on 12/25/14 at 9:32 pm to Bestbank Tiger
It would certainly be disconcerting to adjust to such a change in character--I think ANY time there is a casting change in a long-running franchise such as James Bond it is difficult to adjust and that doesn't make it a racist issue.
I'm a huge fan of the Lee Child novels about the character Jack Reacher, who is described as 6'5" and blonde. When TOM CRUISE was cast to play Jack Reacher in the movie I was APPALLED....after reading something like 13 novels with this character in my "mind's eye" it was hard to accept TC as the character. He did a good job in the movie but he wasn't "Jack Reacher" to me....
I also went to see a live production of Les Miserables that had a black man playing Jean Valjean. It was a shock at first and a bit disconcerting to believe him as the character because that isn't what he's been cast as before. He did a fine job in the role, but it was still a bit odd to me.
I'm a huge fan of the Lee Child novels about the character Jack Reacher, who is described as 6'5" and blonde. When TOM CRUISE was cast to play Jack Reacher in the movie I was APPALLED....after reading something like 13 novels with this character in my "mind's eye" it was hard to accept TC as the character. He did a good job in the movie but he wasn't "Jack Reacher" to me....
I also went to see a live production of Les Miserables that had a black man playing Jean Valjean. It was a shock at first and a bit disconcerting to believe him as the character because that isn't what he's been cast as before. He did a fine job in the role, but it was still a bit odd to me.
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 3:08 pm to skeeter531
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I'm a huge fan of the Lee Child novels about the character Jack Reacher, who is described as 6'5" and blonde. When TOM CRUISE was cast to play Jack Reacher in the movie I was APPALLED....after reading something like 13 novels with this character in my "mind's eye" it was hard to accept TC as the character. He did a good job in the movie but he wasn't "Jack Reacher" to me....
I felt the same way about Johnny Depp playing Ichabod Crane in Sleeping Hollow.
Even though Depp is a great actor he didn't look anything like the original fictional character, Ichabod Crane.
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The whole paragraph that introduces Ichabod is about how tall, skinny, and awkward the guy is, and it ends with this gem of a sentence:
To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
I understand how movies need stars in them in order to get more people to watch them but there must be some good white actors out there who could have more closely fit the description of the original Ichabod Crane.
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