Movie Characters

[maccalla.livejournal.com]

TA's come home from uni for the holidays (yayness!) and last night we were watching the first Lord of the Rings movie right through, together. That's me, TA, TC, and our dad, Ardie Bea, who is actually a member here as well (teh lulz) and of course we were fangirl/boy-ing over QT at the same time.

Anyway, we started off by agreeing that Legarus the awesomely beautiful should be played by Orlando Bloom (you know, Legolas the insanely beautiful), and then someone said that Viggo Mortmensen (Aragorn) should be Teleus. The rest of us disagreed and then someone said Sean Bean (Boromir) and we all suddenly thought how perfect that would be. And Hugo Weaving (Elrond) for Relius, even though he is a bit old.

Thoughts?

Comments

[maccalla.livejournal.com]

It wasn't even a joke. They would be good for the parts. This is what they need to do to look right for the parts. Please forgive, O great and mighty flightless bird, for not all of us thinking about racial differences all the time!

I'm straightforward, like a knife. You're a corkscrew. That's all there is to it. But y'know what? A knife gets where it's going faster.

[philia-fan.livejournal.com]

Maccalla, I don't think Penguin intends to pounce on you personally. This business of whitewashing fantasy (and other genres) is quite a hot topic right now out in the world, and she is just reminding us all to be sensitive to it. No need to get defensive. The topic of race makes everyone stumble a bit, because we aren't used to addressing it openly, and the best we can do is all be aware and also be forgiving of each other.

[maccalla.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I'm in a bad mood.

And I don't normally live in the world, so I guess that's why I'd never come across the topic before.

[tearoha.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Philia.

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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I'm going to step in here as moderator and ask everyone to move on to a new topic. It would be a shame to allow this post to lead to hurt feelings between what has always been a friendly, open fan group. Can we all agree to keep to on-topic discussion here and use other, more appropriate, blogs for other topics?

Thank you, dear ones. *huggles all of sounis*