i saw hercules, i didn't believe it, i think the rock
could do a better kull or conan than sorbo, he wasn't
even that muscular nor that moody
no matter how you look at it, he wasn't kull
--- Michael Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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