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⌈ Secret Post #4338 ⌋

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[Criminal Minds, S02E22 "Legacy"]

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[The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories]

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[The House With a Clock in Its Walls]

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[Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier]

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[Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey]

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[BuzzFeed Unsolved, Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara]

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[Parks and Rec]

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Same. As someone whose read the book and seen Hitchcock's version I think you need that age difference to emphasize the experience/lifestyle gap between the narrator and Maxim.

Though, potentially controversial opinion time: I feel like if they are going to remake Rebecca, I think it would be interesting and refreshing if they had a non-white actress play the narrator.

I think it would be interesting and refreshing if they had a non-white actress play the narrator.

Having read the Wiki plot summary and assorted notes, I have to agree. Her first name is supposed to be 'unusual' and 'difficult to spell', and she is considered 'different' and 'foreign' to the people around her. So someone not white would be very interesting.

Plus there's been a half-dozen film/TV adaptions of Rebecca. I feel like if you're going to go back to this well an unconventional casting choice would be a good way to set yourself apart. Especially if you're adapting something that was previously adapted by Alfred fucking Hitchcock.

Exactly. And while the woman chosen to play the lead is not a bad actor at all, she's just screechingly white-bread.

The guy i don't even recognize, by face or name, and he inspires nothing. I don't think they, as a couple, will bring much fire.

I have never seen this person except for this photograph and I know for a fact he's a shit actor incapable of chemistry or 'fire'

That seems so uncharitable but frankly....his name annoys the fuck out of me.

He's named after his great-grandfather Armand Hammer (and his father's and grandfather's middle names were also Armand). The similarity of Armand Hammer to Arm & Hammer is just a coincidence, though the senior Armand did acquire shares in the parent company after being asked about it a lot.

I think its the shortening of it. 'Armie'. Like adult men who call themselves 'Tommy' or 'Corky' or something. Doesn't sit right with me.

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Like Tommy Lee Jones, Ricky Whittle, Bobby Cannavale, Willie Garson, and Johnny Vegas? I guess if you don't like it, you don't like it. But I'm really not sure there's any other way to go with Armand without inviting a tone of Arm & Hammer jokes, given his last name. I guess he could be a Manny, but Manny Hammer sounds so weird.

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Yup, it's *weird*, and I've never liked it.

What's wrong with Armand? It's a very nice name. 'Armie' sounds....just silly, and 'Armie Hammer' sounds like a WWE name or something, I dunno.

Nope, not for me.

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There's nothing wrong with Armand, on its own, but like I said, with Hammer as a last name and as a celebrity, lots of jokes about Arm & Hammer, since it's is literally Arm-and Hammer, which would also be a problem with just Arm. I mean, I'm sure he does get some as it is, just it would be much worse.

How about Douglas? That's his middle name.

I think Armand is a perfectly nice name, dunno why he has to mess with it. Much more gravitas that 'Armie'.

Hammer seemed pretty good in The Social Network? But then that was directed by David Fincher and I'm increasingly convinced David Fincher could get a great performance out of a uncharismatic plank of wood.

Fincher goes for typecast. Armie Hammer is an airhead nepotism child and played one in a movie perfectly.

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Critics seemed to like him in Call Me by Your Name. I didn't think he was bad in The Social Network. But he should maybe stop being in big remakes, since neither The Lone Ranger nor The Man from U.N.C.L.E. did that well.

He did an exceptional job in Call Me By Your Name.

He was fun as Illya in Man From UNCLE, and his performance as Prince Charming under the influence of a Puppy Love potion in *Mirror Mirror* was hilarious. So I have a real soft spot for him.

Ah ha ha. I did not see either of those movies.

The most interesting thing about Armie Hammer is he's really into bondage

Oh? Like, *actually* really into bondage, or just 'i'm gonna make a noise on social media and see what happens' into bondage?

https://decider.com/2017/03/13/armie-hammer-rope-bondage-twitter/

What a weird fucking article. Calling his like a 'mistake'. Wth.

But good on him for liking what he likes.

I agree with everything you said. The age gap is not just canonical, I think, but it makes sense in the context. Maxim is older and more experienced, the heroine is young and relatively sheltered. That puts her at a disadvantage when she becomes the second Mrs. DeWinter, which is absolutely on point.

Casting a non-white actress would help reinforce that sense of isolation and otherness the heroine felt in her new home, so I think that's a great idea.

Casting a non-white actress would help reinforce that sense of isolation and otherness the heroine felt in her new home.

Especially if (when you have them go back to her home) she's the ONLY non-white person there, even among the servants. You wouldn't even need to ever explicitly address race, you'd just have this huge visual reminder of what an outsider she is.

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