Right. And what's funniest is it gets worse when an "unknown" is cast in a movie. Because the dude play Thor/Blake isn't a famous actor, they probably freaked out and said "we need an 'A-list' star to play Odin". Right. Just make a good movie--and with Branagh directing, the chances are good--and get good actors, famous or not. It reminds me of how Marlon Brando was given the role of Jor-El in the first Superman flick, because the studio wanted name recognition. They had to pay him a huge salary for that time, he only had a few minutes onscreen, and on top of that, he didn't bother to memorize his few lines, so they had to use que cards offscreen.
All that, and the movie would have succeeded without him. At least in this case Hopkins is of the same or similar ethnicity. I really felt casting him as a Spaniard in "Zorro" was insulting and offensive beyond measure. I love Catherine Zeta-Jones, but her cast as a Spanish lady was also silly. This is why I get irritated when people discuss things like the best actor for the next Batman flick, and they cycle through the same old people. It's why I keep rejecting choices like Jolie and Depp. They're great actors, but sometimes I want unknowns or lesser-knowns who have just as much talent, and whose performances are easier to lose myself in, absent the baggage of their celebrity. For example, Heath Ledger was a well known star, but not super-duper, and he *killed* as Joker. Same with Aaron Eckhart as Dent/Two-Face. Not a big name star, but damn good. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 7:47:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 'Thor' Set Visit Gives First Look at Anthony Hopkins in a Future Eye Patch You have touched on one my biggest pet peeves with hollywood. They always have to use the "most well known" actors for the role. That doesn't mean that the actor is the best for the part though. The pool is too shallow to keep drawing from but they make us suffer through it anyway. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Keith Johnson < [email protected] > wrote: You know, I like Anthony Hopkins well enough, but why is he always being given such roles? The guy's not Scandinavian: can't they find someone with a genuine accent for the role? I had the same problem when they darkened his skin and cast Hopkins as the first Zorro in the movie with Antonio Banderas. Almost ruined the whole thing for me... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:36:02 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] 'Thor' Set Visit Gives First Look at Anthony Hopkins in a Future Eye Patch 'Thor' Set Visit Gives First Look at Anthony Hopkins in a Future Eye Patch More: anthony hopkins , behind-the-scenes , chris hemsworth , comic , kenneth branagh , marvel , movie , natalie portman , superhero , thor thor-behind-scenes-et.jpg Television's shoutiest entertainment news source, Entertainment Tonight , has just released a behind-the-scenes video from the set of Thor , and you know what that means: quick, feeble glimpses at actual shooting and a whole fuckofalot of some interviewing schmuck that won't shut up about how muscular Chris Hemsworth looks! Here it is: I like how the Asgardian set looks like it's made of gilded tie dye. Check out the video clip here: http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2010/06/thor_set_visit_gives_first_loo.php -- -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
