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[ SECRET POST #3499 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3499 ⌋

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LOL, your dream cast will never happen either. Who cares if someone wants Vivian Leigh to play Katniss Everdeen in a new version of the Hunger Games, or if someone thinks Michelle Dockery would make a great Violet in a Series of Unfortunate Events remake? It's 100% pretend anyway, and it'll never happen either which way, so let people have their fun.

Yup, since it all in my imagination anyway, I'm going to go with my perfect cast instead of limiting it with practicalities.

Right? I don't come to fandom with a burning need for reality.

Shit, now I want a remake of Hunger Games where Vivien Leigh plays Katniss and Olivia de Havilland plays Prim. Clark Gable will be Gale and Leslie Howard will be Peeta...

I think I love you.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-08-03 23:29 (UTC) - Expand

Whoaaa - my mind, it is blown...

People get so defensive about it, though. If it were just for fun, people wouldn't get sdo passionate about it.

IDK, it seems like technology is getting better and better. I don't think it will be too long until they can make a lifelike version of a dead person and not be uncanny valley. Probably won't catch the spirit of the person but you'd get the look right.

Here, read this, it's about how well people have been doing this so far:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/resurrecting-the-dead-with-computer-graphics-77706610/

Really good read.

It's a dream cast, that's why people do it. If you're daydreaming and it's all fantasy and imagination, why should other people limit their imaginations?

Vincent Price is still the only true Doctor Strange idgaf someone bring him back to life

I was onboard for Oded Fehr while that rumour was circulating, but Vincent Price is also excellent.

Well, most fancasts are embarrassing and terrible, so including more actors to give variety can only improve them.

Younger Jon Hamm is my perfect Gatsby and always will be.

Though she's not dead, Faye Dunaway will always be my ideal Cora Mills from "Once Upon a Time". (no offense to Barbara Hershey)

The reason I can never get into dream casts is it feels like people cast actors who are way too known or way too pretty for me to feel like they're the character. The age is another big hurdle. 30 year olds don't look like teenagers.

That's my main problem, too. Half the time, the perfect actor for the role is someone I've never heard of. It makes me too frustrated to bother.

"30 year olds don't look like teenagers."

I feel like that would be an issue when casting 30-year-olds as teenagers, but it seems like more often these days it's the young and beautiful set that's being cast as what should be the 30- and 40-something professional people.

Tangentially related, but I really liked those movie posters that took modern movies, made them look like posters from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and cast actors from that decade in them

Ooh, have any suggestions?

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wannabe_influential - 2016-08-04 00:37 (UTC) - Expand

Tbh I get what you're saying.

I don't understand why you say in your secret that sometimes people are choosing actors that fit how they envision the character, and then you get all mad that those people are dead or the wrong age. Like, if you're just picking actors because they match your imagined character then what does it matter? That's different task entirely to casting a movie.

And don't get me wrong I think it's odd that you require the cast to be logistically plausible in the real world to enjoy it, but the "how they imagine" part of your secret doesn't even make sense since it has nothing to do with casting a film.

Well, sometimes the author him/herself has an actor in mind when he/she was writing the story. And when that book is written a while ago, there's nothing to be done.

I mean, didn't Anne Rice have Rutger Hauer in mind when she wrote The Interview with a Vampire? He was too old even when the movie came out in 20 years ago...

Nah, young Danny Kaye will always be the Elongated Man in my book.

I mean, come on, guy's never going to get a movie anyway, might as well go for broke!

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