I have no problem with characters being cast with actors of races that differ from the original concept, so long as the casting is being done because of the actor. Michael Clarke Duncan was a great Wilson Fisk (even if the movie wasn't great)--he carried himself with an air of power and menace without hamming it up, and he looked the part. It's when they're casting and they say, "Okay, for this film we're making the character black--who do we know who could do that?" that I get pissed. People shouldn't case different races just for the sake of doing it; as I see it that's blatant tokenism.
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Mr. Broom - Sep 23, 2004 12:59:50 pm PDT #6033 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2004 1:08:03 pm PDT #6034 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Was there a memo? I always miss the memo. And reading the above link, I kinda think Byrne ought to be locked in a room with Grace and Anissa.
Or ita. Because she's real, and we know she could take him.
It's probably good that I don't like a single thing Byrne's ever done. Makes it that much easier to just pretend he doesn't exist.
victor infante - Sep 23, 2004 1:17:20 pm PDT #6035 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
It's probably good that I don't like a single thing Byrne's ever done.
Oh, he was perfectly good in his day. The early issues of Alpha Flight were excellent, and Man of Steel was pretty cool.
But I'll never forgive him and Claremont for what they did to the Doom Patrol. They are officially on my avoid list, along with Chuck Austen.
P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2004 1:21:36 pm PDT #6036 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
What!?! t feigned shock Austen's on your avoid list? Whyever so? *snerf*
I have very few people on my Official Avoid List. Actually, I think it's basically Austen and Byrne.
sumi - Sep 23, 2004 4:29:16 pm PDT #6037 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Another Spoiler related question: is her father dead? Could he have engineered an adoption for his own nefarious ends? Not that this makes any sense in relation to the War Games thing either!
victor infante - Sep 23, 2004 7:25:58 pm PDT #6038 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I have very few people on my Official Avoid List. Actually, I think it's basically Austen and Byrne.
Austenmay well be the only one officially on it. I'd rather read Denny O'Neil and his fucking shape-shifting space monkey than his crap. Pardon my Anglo-Saxon. Austen's idea of characterization evidently invovles everyone losing their personalities and having inappropriate, kind of squicky sense, with what bits of character they have remaining being things that were resolved before I graduated high school. Not that I'm bitter about what he did to the Avengers or anything. Or the X-Men. I didn't even try his JLA. I refuse to even look at it until Busiek picks it up.
On the other hand, at least he didn't pretend the Doom Patrol never happened.
ETA: Oh, and Sumi, Spoiler's dad is Cluemaster. He wears an orange suit and a hankie over his face. He's a second rate Riddler, and really, the only interesting thing he ever did was die. Nefarious plans with infants? Not thinking it's happening.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2004 7:47:08 pm PDT #6039 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do not like Austen's X-Men. Sure, I buy it, but I just dumped Excalibur -- I'm not ready to dump too many at once.
CaBil - Sep 23, 2004 11:20:44 pm PDT #6040 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
sumi, victor, Cluemaster supposedly died in the first issue of Sucuide Squad v.3 a few years ago, but it looks like he may be lurking about in the background of the FBI facing off against the Rogues in Flash ...
victor infante - Sep 24, 2004 6:37:12 am PDT #6041 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Really, Cabil? My goodness, that's...disturbing.
Shanshu - Sep 24, 2004 8:05:39 am PDT #6042 of 10000
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be
lyrically, Talib Kweli.
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did five mill' - I ain't been rhymin like Common since (Jay-Z)
Anyone reading Ultra? I picked up the first two issues yesterday and it's pretty compelling so far. It borrows quite a bit from Powers, particularly the Little Deaths arc.
Speaking of Powers: Miracle Man, I just got the original art of the 2-page scene of the autopsy of Retro Girl in the mail today. You have to come over and check it out!