Now I'm having flashbacks to Christopher Lambert and James Remar being cast as the Japanese storm god in those Mortal Combat movies.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 04, 2009 10:08:07 am PDT #2279 of 30000
"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
Tom Scola - Jun 04, 2009 10:11:13 am PDT #2280 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They did cast an actual Asian movie star in the lead role in the Mortal Kombat films.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2009 11:20:22 am PDT #2281 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That was after Lambert's tour de force as a Scot, wasn't it Matt?
Too bad they're the villains!
Is Zuko villainous for the whole movie?
Aims - Jun 04, 2009 11:23:00 am PDT #2282 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Is Zuko villainous for the whole movie?
Nah - he gets his letter sweater for track near the end.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jun 04, 2009 11:43:02 am PDT #2283 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Don John's whole purpose in the play is to just be a dick?
Pretty much. Other than setting up the Claudio-Hero crap.
I used to teach 'Much Ado'. It was great to have such a good film to show to the students. Highlights how Beatrice and Benedick are the more interesting sub-plot, too. Which is useful.
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2009 12:30:13 pm PDT #2284 of 30000
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Is Zuko villainous for the whole movie?
Pretty much. His redemptive arc doesn't really kick into gear until the second season/second movie. For the entirety of this movie, he's the Dude Who's Trying to Capture Aang. He's a veritable jackass for a lot of the first season. He does get a sympathetic backstory, but I don't know how much of the first season they're including (will the Blue Spirit make an appearance?). By the end of this movie, presumably, he will be considered a traitor and an outcast, so maybe not as villainous as before, but still. In any case, Zhao, also of the Fire Nation, is completely villainous and has no redemptive arc, and he's played by Aasif Mandvi. Ozai, who is the Big Bad, is played by Cliff Curtis. So in casting Dev Patel, they had to follow suit and make the rest of the Fire Nation brown as well. Which is just weird because on the show, the Fire Nation is pretty light-skinned.
Kathy A - Jun 04, 2009 12:36:02 pm PDT #2285 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember reading somewhere that the first opportunity Cliff Curtis had to play a Maori was in Whale Rider, years into his career.
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2009 12:41:32 pm PDT #2286 of 30000
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I really enjoyed him in Push.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2009 12:42:02 pm PDT #2287 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember reading somewhere that the first opportunity Cliff Curtis had to play a Maori was in Whale Rider, years into his career.
He was in Once Were Warriors 8 years before Whale Rider.
PC-so it's one movie per season, then?
Polter-Cow - Jun 04, 2009 12:55:22 pm PDT #2288 of 30000
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ita, I believe so. It's going to be a trilogy, and there are three seasons. I'm pretty sure I read or heard that the first movie is the first season, for sure; I don't know whether they confirmed the obvious assumption about the other two. They haven't cast any of the characters introduced in the second season.