- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
re: THR: Paapa Essiedu has been offered to play Severus Snape in HBO's Harry Potter adaptation
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:48 am to Corinthians420
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:48 am to Corinthians420
Post #200 of this anti-black campaign
#teamShouldHaveBeenATranny
#teamShouldHaveBeenATranny
1
Posted on 12/6/24 at 11:58 am to theunknownknight
quote:
Post #200 of this anti-black campaign
#teamShouldHaveBeenATranny
I'm pretty sure everyone is happy they cast someone more book accurate when it comes to Snapes age. Snape was Harry's parents age so shouldve been around 30 years old when he attended hogwarts at 11 years old if James and Lily had Harry when they were 20. Rickman was much too old for that math to work out
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:04 pm to Corinthians420
quote:
I'm pretty sure everyone is happy they cast someone more book accurate when it comes to Snapes age. Snape was Harry's parents age so shouldve been around 30 years old when he attended hogwarts at 11 years old if James and Lily had Harry when they were 20. Rickman was much too old for that math to work out
The age of Timothy Spall and Gary Oldman made it work somewhat better with James/Lily being older than they were in the books when they had Harry. David Thewlis kinda messed with that, but he looked pretty ragged and could have been older. I definitely wouldn't mind going more book accurate for aging. Hollywood just seems bad about accurate actor aging across the board though.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 12:37 pm to Dam Guide
Yeah i had no issue with them "aging up" that generation but if they are trying to be more book authentic this time around making them younger is a big improvement
Posted on 12/6/24 at 1:28 pm to Corinthians420
quote:
I figured one of you that doesn't like it would be able to tell me why it's bad.
I wouldn't say its bad per se. It just takes me out of the universe/story a little bit.....because Snape is a white character.
If Kingsley were cast as white, I would feel the same way. It seems like a needless thing to do.
Why not just cast accurately to the source material?
Posted on 12/6/24 at 1:34 pm to Indefatigable
It’s bad because it’s purely politically motivated. As someone else posted, you never see it going the other way and that’s by design.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 1:41 pm to Indefatigable
(no message)
This post was edited on 5/11/26 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 1:41 pm to scottydoesntknow
oh I agree - I followed up my post reply to Scruffy that I didn't know how Snape was described int he book - once I realized it, I changed my opinion.
I do not care who the actor is - but the desire to make a change for no real reason other than to push an agenda - I am out.
it is like they decided to redo Die Hard and Cast Idris Elba as John McClane. could he do it? sure. but why change it?
I do not care who the actor is - but the desire to make a change for no real reason other than to push an agenda - I am out.
it is like they decided to redo Die Hard and Cast Idris Elba as John McClane. could he do it? sure. but why change it?
Posted on 12/6/24 at 2:33 pm to Corinthians420
quote:
book accurate when it comes to Snapes age
For those of you who don't know because you haven't read the books, Nearly Headless Nick had a Death Day Party in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. On the cake that was served at the party, he had his death day as October 31, 1492. Since he was celebrating his 500th Death Day, that meant the events of the second novel were taking place in the years 1992-93. Harry was eleven years old in the first novel which means he was twelve in the second, making his birth year 1980. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry and Hermione visit Harry's parents' graves at Godric's Hollow and it showed them both being born in 1960. Snape was in the same year as James and Lily was so he would have been the same age as them, making him 31 years old in the first book.
Alan Rickman was 54 when he was cast to play Snape in the franchise.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:41 pm to RollTide1987
and that was ok - not every literary work is written in a way that will direct translate to the screen without liberties taken - like age, hair and such. changing the race is a whole different thing.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 3:51 pm to Thracken13
Posted on 12/6/24 at 4:01 pm to Thracken13
quote:
and that was ok - not every literary work is written in a way that will direct translate to the screen without liberties taken - like age, hair and such. changing the race is a whole different thing.
so it's fine to change anything except race?
but the reason people are upset about this is all about being true to the books, not because race?
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 5:47 pm to RollTide1987
quote:
Alan Rickman was 54 when he was cast to play Snape in the franchise.
I’m pretty sure that he was handpicked by JK. So she kind of had the final say back then.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 6:39 pm to Corinthians420
quote:
I am not the one complaining about race-swapping. I figured one of you that doesn't like it would be able to tell me why it's bad.
it is very obvious you don't actually want answers 
Posted on 12/6/24 at 6:51 pm to alajones
Posted on 12/6/24 at 7:04 pm to Esquire
Posted on 12/6/24 at 7:50 pm to imjustafatkid
quote:I thought that his racism was obvious. He had 3 points:
No, you didn't. You simply called it racist.
1. Black culture is bad and they can only get wins from white people.
2. Whitewash it with the "better blacks" in prominent normal roles that were inherently white. While also choosing to ignore that casting a black hero instead of white villain for this topic would be better.
3. Ask why can't black people create their own characters and content. Very clearly insinuating that they can't.
And when I just casually posted that Tyler Perry is a billionaire, I got zero replies, but surely the downvotes.
You guys are not as transparent as you think you are. You're a dumb person fatty, others not so dumb, but still all agenda based.
I am not going to stop people from being racists and you're not going to make me a racist. So basically this is a Mexican standoff. (Let's see who gets this reference).
I'll end it there and am out. Enjoy all the back and forth baws.
Posted on 12/6/24 at 8:04 pm to Corinthians420
quote:
so it's fine to change anything except race?
but the reason people are upset about this is all about being true to the books, not because race?
If you change Snape's race to a black person, you definitely need to change the Potters race or the story gets a very serious change. I want something true to the books, not something that will get bogged down in side crap. As you can see by this very thread, racism is alive and well. Bigotry does have a place in the Snape vs Potter bullying, but it's more Snape being the one that is the bigot.
You know this will now be a huge point in the series. Let's not pretend it won't be a massive change.
This post was edited on 12/6/24 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 12/6/24 at 9:20 pm to drizztiger
quote:
1. Black culture is bad and they can only get wins from white people.
2. Whitewash it with the "better blacks" in prominent normal roles that were inherently white. While also choosing to ignore that casting a black hero instead of white villain for this topic would be better.
3. Ask why can't black people create their own characters and content. Very clearly insinuating that they can't.
Your points make no sense. Only your third point is remotely close to what you responded to, and you even misrepresent that one. This is what he said:
quote:
The great whitewashing of black culture continues. Put a well spoken black man in a role /character originally white so to make black more like whitey. No more culcha with a hard R or A and violent. It’s political and manipulative as a psyop.
Problem is, it gets played off as something modern and wonderful when it is indeed cowardly racist and demonstrative of keeping racism alive. By that I mean the prevailing in-your-face bs of “Those poor black people, lets over represent them and give them roles originally meant for white people. “
Let blacks and others write their own stuff and cast original roles. How has that worked out for those that did exactly this?
Posted on 12/6/24 at 9:33 pm to imjustafatkid
quote:
imjustafatkid
Page 11 of 18
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News