Oooh, Kyle Chandler possible lead for Powers.
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sumi - Mar 31, 2011 6:44:51 am PDT #3409 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
Consuela - Mar 31, 2011 7:27:42 am PDT #3410 of 5059
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I would watch Kyle Chandler read the phone book.
... okay, yeah, I haven't watched the final season of FNL yet because I'm convinced it will shatter my heart into tiny little pieces.
sumi - Mar 31, 2011 7:45:00 am PDT #3411 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
DVDS out next week.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2011 8:12:49 am PDT #3412 of 5059
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I haven't seen FNL, but he definitely looks the part.
Polter-Cow - Mar 31, 2011 11:55:37 am PDT #3413 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Huh, I would never have thought of that, but I'm game.
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 10:07:20 am PDT #3414 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone have a citation for why Bane being played by Tom Hardy is racist? I can't see anything that says Bane isn't white. Who is his mother?
P.M. Marc - Apr 04, 2011 10:13:05 am PDT #3415 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sir Edmund Dorrance, aka King Snake, is a British native who first distinguished himself in the Royal Artillery (a corps of the British Army). He and some friends then became mercenaries, offering their professional expertise to various anti-communist rebels, and made considerable money in doing so. While in Santa Prisca working with local rebels, his camp was taken by surprise by government commandos and Edmund blinded by gunfire. He fled the country, leaving for dead a female rebel that he had slept with. The woman was actually alive and pregnant with Edmund's son. Both she and her child were imprisoned for Edmund's crimes against the Santa Prisca government, with the child growing up in prison to become the villainous Bane.
So the theory is that he's half-Hispanic, but I'll point out that Santa Prisca (which seems to map loosely to Cuba in its fictional history) is strongly Spanish influenced, also that Hispanic is not the same as not white. As any of our Hispanic, but white, Buffistas can attest.
I'd be bothered if, say it were Renee Montoya being played by some random blonde starlet, but this? Not so much.
Steph L. - Apr 04, 2011 10:13:21 am PDT #3416 of 5059
I look more rad than Lutheranism
ISTR comics with Bane with his mask off, and he was white.
I feel like he's of Russian descent, although that might not be true.
t edit x-post with Plei, who comes through with the info!
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 04, 2011 10:16:26 am PDT #3417 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
His tattoos from Bronson remind them of Bombshell Mcgee?
§ ita § - Apr 04, 2011 10:18:40 am PDT #3418 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am unutterably pissed at people who say that Hispanic != white, and the idea that Bane can't be played by a white guy because he was born in a Latin country strikes me as wanting a reason to be upset at Hollywood. There are plenty of good reasons. Choose your battles.
Also, travel more, or at least look at pictures. There's no picture of Bane I've seen that Hardy can't pull off, unless you're talking insane bulk. But that's comics for you.