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race/gender swap casting that worked
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:18 am
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:18 am
you were skeptical, perhaps rightly so.
but goddamn it he/she/it owned the role and you enjoyed the performance
I realize this may be a short thread
but goddamn it he/she/it owned the role and you enjoyed the performance
I realize this may be a short thread
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Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:21 am to cgrand
This thread will be a complete shitshow
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:31 am to cgrand
Darth Vader.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:37 am to cgrand
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:50 am to cgrand
Denzel's Man on Fire
Posted on 5/16/26 at 11:52 am to cgrand
Without Remorse
Being an Irish Catholic was integral to the John Clark character. Worked partly because they already had a good storyline they didn't radically change, and partly because the race swap wasn't in the name of wokeism. The actor just really liked the character and wanted to do the movie.
Being an Irish Catholic was integral to the John Clark character. Worked partly because they already had a good storyline they didn't radically change, and partly because the race swap wasn't in the name of wokeism. The actor just really liked the character and wanted to do the movie.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:03 pm to Bestbank Tiger
quote:that’s a good one. I had a specific image in my head of what John Clark looked like, after the books and particularly after willem dafoe played him but jordan did a great job
Without Remorse
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:12 pm to cgrand
Fox in Wanted
Jolie was ok but Berry would’ve been better for what the character functioned as.
Jolie was ok but Berry would’ve been better for what the character functioned as.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:14 pm to cgrand
Starbuck got tons of hate at the time, but it was great casting and Ronald D Moore made one of the best reboots ever, especially for sci-fi.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:23 pm to Two0Five
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Denzel's Man on Fire
Denzel is Denzel.
I also think the (and this is important) UNSPOKEN dynamic of the grizzled old black guy and the happy little white girls adds to the story without changing it.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 12:24 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:37 pm to cgrand
Not the same, but the switch from XXL to snack-size Reacher in the movies worked, at least for me.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:44 pm to cgrand
I'm so/so on the movie, but Jeffrey Wright was good as Gordon. I thought Judi Dench was a great M. Combining Wright and Bond, I liked him as Felix Leiter.
Generally I don't care if a character is race/gender swapped if it's not important to the character and doesn't feel like pandering.
Generally I don't care if a character is race/gender swapped if it's not important to the character and doesn't feel like pandering.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:46 pm to cgrand
Jaime Foxx was a damn good Django
Posted on 5/16/26 at 12:57 pm to Two0Five
Caretaker in The Longest Yard
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:01 pm to Madking
quote:That movie wasn’t even related to the source material outside of “character shoots guns”, so I don’t think it even matters.
Fox in Wanted
It wasn’t even a race swap since they didn’t even use the source material, IMO.
That movie sucked hard.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:11 pm to cgrand
tGOAT
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:38 pm to blueboy
Red in Shawshank will always be the final answer to this question.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:46 pm to Sam Quint
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Red in Shawshank will always be the final answer to this question.
I didn't realize he was white in the book.
Morgan Freeman's character is iconic.
Another one: Denzel as the reporter in The Pelican Brief was great. The book specifically says he's white.
This post was edited on 5/16/26 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:55 pm to cgrand
Donner was casting two white actors. The casting director pointed out that race wasn't mentioned in the script, and that Glover would be perfect.
Posted on 5/16/26 at 1:55 pm to cgrand
This isn't hard.
Ronald D. Moore wasn't trying to check a quota or anything.
He had, at least, a full idea of what the character should be in his reboot. It did not ring false.
Ronald D. Moore wasn't trying to check a quota or anything.
He had, at least, a full idea of what the character should be in his reboot. It did not ring false.
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