At 11:33 AM 4/30/2001, you wrote:
>Michael Martinez writes:
> >No, Sorbo plays his characters quite differently,
>
>Not to me.
>
> >People identify actors with certain roles and thereafter people see those
> >actors in those roles no matter what the actors do differently. That is
> >why typecasting is such a problem in the film industry. The casting
> >directors look at actors in a certain way.
>
>Michael, I've never even watched a full episode of Hercules. I certainly
>don't have a strong preconception of Sorbo in my mind. Yet I still found
>myself saying "he's playing Herc" during Kull.
If you've never watched a full episode of Hercules, then how can you even
have an accurate understand of how Kevin played the character? Did you
start to watch MANY episodes?
The only "Herkism" I recognized in the movie came in the first scene, where
Kull says, "My blood [pause] is as red as any man's." That is classic
Kevin Sorbo moralizing. And if that depiction set the tone for many
viewers of the movie, then I can't fault them for superimposing Hercules on
Kull.
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