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Do you have any particularly jarring examples of when your mental image of a book character, and the way that book character looks in a film/TV adaptation of that book (whether the actor, or the costume/hair/etc), are just so wildly different that it kind of weirds you out or distracts you?

Yes. Most of the elves in the Tolkien movies look nothing like elves to me but the one that bugs me the most is Elrond. Elrond should look beautiful. Arwen is the most beautiful woman in the Third Age (with the caveat that some in-canon prefer Galadriel) and her description is that she was a female-version of Elrond. Elrond should be really good looking. He most definitely should not be losing his hair.

Agreed, but I was much more put off by Celeborn. He just looks nothing like an elf. Elrond at least had a striking, sort of unearthly alien appearance that made you think he could definitely be an ancient non-human creature even if he wasn't the sort of beautiful that a Tolkien elf should be, but uggghhhhh Celeborn. He just looked like a regular dude. Not even a slender, angular regular dude either.

I can give most elves a pass for not being as beautiful as elves should be because honestly I don't think it's possible for human live-action actors to look like how elves should look, you'd need to go into the realm of artsy high-tier animation for that, but at least you can select actors with appropriate face/body types.

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I felt the same way about Elrond and Celeborn. I thought they should've chosen men who were more "ageless" looking (to match Cate Blanchett) or androgynous. No receding hairlines because come on...

I agree with the conclusion, but not with the justification. I don't think elvish appearances have that much to do with genetics apart from hair/eye color.

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Thorin, Kili, Fili. Far too human-like in the movie. Yes, hot (well, Kili anyway). But still they should have been more dwarf-like.

Frodo looked too young. Elijah pulled it off, though, but he isn't physically what I picture.

Celeborn looks a bit too old in the face. A lot of elves do, actually. Elrond too. They are supposed to be ageless and beautiful. Yes, it wouldn't be possible to quite capture the book elves considering they are fairer than humans, but they should have at least looked younger. Cate Blanchett looks ageless, though, and was perfect. And Thranduil was pretty spot on.

Sauron was not a flaming eye. Ever. The eye was a symbol. He had an actual form, albeit a very unattractive one by the Third Age. Gollum mentions the hand with the missing fingr. So we know Sauron had a form at that point.

Yeah. I realize I read LOTR wrong because I thought 50 for a hobbit was actually 50, so I was picturing a chubby 50 year-old guy for Frodo. Elijah is too thin and too young.

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Yeah, I'm not that familiar with Tolkien canon, so I was surprised to find out that in the books Frodo was around the same age Bilbo was when he left on his adventure. Apparently Jackson fiddled with the timing, what happened when, so Frodo's younger? I just don't know what to picture now.

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They should have swapped Aragorn and Boromir IMO

Nah. While I do agree that Boromir and Aragorn looked nothing like how I pictured them, the actors' portrayals would NEVER have worked swapped, and worked really well as they were.

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It's not that jarring, but it kinda bothered me that Kaoru's kimonos in the live action Rurouni Kenshin weren't brightly-colored (though that's probably more historically accurate). The lack of hair ribbon bothered me too.

Ron and Hermione in the Harry Potter movies. But the way they behaved were far more jarringly off than the way they looked. Film!Hermione has absolutely not a single thing in common with book!Hermione. Film!Ron was only a little better, mostly because he actually had a personality that didn't consist of eyerolls (even if said personality wasn't very similar to book!Ron's personality).

(I blame Steve Kloves, not Emma Watson, for this though.)

Steve Kloves should be ashamed of what he did to Hermione. And Ron, too, for that matter. He made Hermione into a Strong Female Character and Ron into a dunce.

I have yet to see a live-action Lois Lane who behaves ANYTHING like any of the Lois Lanes in the comics.

Remus Lupin looked too old. I wasn't picturing facial hair either.

I was thinking the same thing about Sirius.

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All of the older gen were played by fantastic actors. But they were all too old.

Lucius Malfoy. I didn't expect him to have long hair, probably because I associate long hair on guys with an entirely different type of person. But maybe it was more common among wizards. Anyway, the actor made it work.

Violet in A Series of Unfortunate Events. I just imagined her face would look quite different from Emily Browning's and I didn't expect her to be shorter than Klaus (though I think they said the actor playing Klaus grew while they were making the movie).

Umbridge was way too pretty in the Harry Potter movies.

Agreed. She was too sickeningly pretty for a character I envisioned being a little more...toady like she was described.

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Sirius Black and Remus Lupin.

I like Gary Oldman and David Thewliss, and they're nice fits with Rickman's Snape,but they're not what I imagined.

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I had no mental image of Sirius whatsoever, but I had a very clear mental image of Remus and... it wasn't anything like David Thewliss (although he grew on me).

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Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam in the BBC version of Little Dorrit.

All the main hobbit characters to be honest. Not that they were bad or I didn't like them, just that I didn't picture them looking so...humanish. I pictured them as more proportional with their shortness, rather than just humans-but-shrunk, and I pictured them as all having very apple-cheeked round faces.

Remember Queen of the Damned? Beside the Vampire Queen everyone else looked... yeah.

Also I remember watching Interview with the Vampire and was surprised that, when I read the book, Armand was not an Antonio Banderas copy and more like this.

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