it's all in where the eye has spent the time.

Yes. (For me, it's a function of working in theater - trying to cast a family, for example, you start having to pay attention to the commonalities.)

I guess I haven't heard him be American recently. His accent in Tigerland was okay.

Yeah, his coloring is fine, but he looks really Irish. What I don't understand was why couldn't he just be Irish? Weren't there plenty of Irish immigrants in the 30s too?

Sumi, the movie is based on a real-life person, is why. He's some forgotten novelist that Charles Bukowski and others of his ilk resurrected into boozy stardom. (Such as it is.)

Sometimes, I can really ignore intra-racial ethnicity-markers. I don't have strong feelings either way about Farrell playing Italian, e.g. But sometimes it just jumps out at me -- actually, the only people I can conjure up off the top of my head are real-life people, like Vladimir Putin.

I picked up the Goblet of Fire (one-disc version, since there was a $6 difference between versions; the only thing I'd look at in the 2-disc is the extra scenes, and I can borrow someone else's copy to see those) and watched it last night. Having only seen it once in the theaters, I'd forgotten all the very funny lines and interesting extra stuff added for the movie. Still love that Kloves turned Neville into a budding Fred Astaire, and am now really looking forward to the twins' big departure in the next movie.

I didn't know the book was about a real person. Hmm. You live, you learn. But somehow you still die, which doesn't seem fair.

trying to cast a family, for example, you start having to pay attention to the commonalities

That's easier for me, since you're dealing with a group you can see all at once. When the group is millions large and fucking like bunnies--well, I could never spot all black Jamaicans. But I can point out which people are most likely Caribbean. And millions of other West Indians are completely visually unplaceable to me.

Heh. I remember that Road Killers movie where they had the inspired idea to cast Craig Sheffer, Josh Brolin, and David Arquette as brothers and then the fourth brother was some actor who bore absolutely no resemblance to the other three.

Pity David Boreanaz and Eddie McClintock hadn't been discovered by that point.

I had a few @@ moments whenever Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez were supposed to not be brothers, like Young Guns. Most sibling casting seems pretty random, but those two need to be related onscreen.

As opposed to the Affleck brothers who can totally get away with it.

Most sibling casting seems pretty random, but those two need to be related onscreen.

How so? They look less related to me than the Brothers Affleck.

How so? They look less related to me than the Brothers Affleck.

I agree. I think Charlie looks a lot more like his dad used to (OT, heh - one of my favorite ZAZ jokes: "I loved you in WALL STREET!") than Emilio ever did, but I never thought they much looked like each other.

Hell, I think Balthazar Getty looks more like Charlie than Emilio does.

Here, for instance, I see them as very similar from chin, up through mouth to nose. And their heights and builds aren't dissimilar.

Now, Affleck brothers have a comparable similarity (although I think it's lesser) around the nose and mouth, but I think the shape of their heads and dissimilar builds distracts from it.