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Re: Adding fuel to the fire
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Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:53:01 GMT
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> > Personally, I don't like the idea at all. I, for one, liked Titanic, very much
> > . . .except for Leo. I thought they could have gotten someone else to play the
> > part, much better. If I were the casting director, I would've gone for
> > somebody
> > with a little more boyish charm . . . someone a little more innocent seeming.
> > It would have grabbed the audience's sympathy a bit more and would have made
> > the bad guy seem all the more bad.
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> Ha! Actually, that was the one thing *I* didn't like about Titanic... though
> all the characters were fairly two-dimensional, Billy Zane may as well have
> turned to the camera every time he entered a scene and said, "Hi, folks. I
> just want to remind you- I'm evil! I'm bad! DOn't like me!"
>
> I actually sort of liked the idea that Leo's character wasn't all that
> innocent. How could he have survived in the world the way he did and stayed
> innocent?
>
> Besides... you you really want Anakin to retain is innocence through the next
> two movies?
>
> > ANYWAY, back to SW. First off, DV becames
> > this big hulking guy.
>
> Courtesy of machine augmentation.
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> > Leo is this skinny, little thing. I mean, granted, Luke
> > wasn't anything massive (so you'd have the whole father-son resemblance
> > going),
> > but for DV to end up well over 6 ft and sporting the bulk that he is, it would
> > be nice to see it represented in who ever lays Anakin in episode II.
> > I've actually heard a rumor that I thought was pretty vast, but nobody has
> > brought it up yet. Maybe it's already been killed . . . I don't know. Anway,
> > what I heard was that James Van Der Beek was in the running for the role.
>
> I've heard that, too.
>
> > He's
> > kind of an unknown (unless you're familiar with the teen-hit, "Dawson's
> > Creek").
>
> Or the teen movie "Varsity Blues" which was a fairly large hit last year.
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> > I don't know too much about him, but physically, he'd fit the part.
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> I dunno... is he really THAT much bigger than Leo?
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> > And my sister adores him . . .thinks he's the greatest actor that ever lived
> > (of course, she's only 13, so what does she know?).
>
> Heh. Indeed.
>
> Of the two, I'd rather see Leo, but of the whole world, I'd rather see someone
> else. ANYONE else, almost...
>
> Hey, I was a theatre major in college... I kind looked like Jake Lloyd as a
> kid... I'm not too small... maybe I should try out! :D
>
> eric
Well . . . they could've handled Zane's character a bit better, but I was
talking about the other "bad" guys that weren't as obvious, namely the entie
upper deck, her mother, all her friends. As far as DV being mostly mechanical
by the time episode 4 comes around, well I'm sure that adds something, but an
extra foot and a half? I mean . . . I don't know his height, weight, etc
(though I'm sure any 13 year old girl can tell me) but he doesn't seem to stand
much taller than 5'10", 5'11". Personally I'm with Eric for the anyone else,
almost. Actually . . .it'd be safe to say that I dislike Leo so much that I'd
rather see Jake Lloyd reprise the role.
-Jonathan
PS . . .granted, I wouldn't want Anaking to retain complete innocence
throughout the next two episodes, but I honestly don't think Leo's the type.
The only time I saw him play a 'bad guy' was in "The Man in the Iron Mask". It
wasn't real believable. He just seemed kind of whiny. He can pull of this tough
guy sort of role, but not genuine evil, which is what Anakin should be giving
off in the next two films. And, as a side note . . .everybody keep in mind that
episode II is going to be primarily a love story. Do we really want another Leo
Love story?
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