[ SECRET POST #2596 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2596 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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03.
[The Croods]


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04.
[Elementary]


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05.
[Final Fantasy XIII]


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06.
[SCP Foundation]


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07.
[Philip Seymour Hoffman]


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08.
[Twin Peaks]


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09.
[Richard Armitage]


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10.
[Reign]


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11.
[The Hobbit]


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12.
[Hunger Games]


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13.
[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]


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14.
[Teen Wolf]


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15.
[Panic! at The Disco/Dallon Weekes]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 063 secrets from Secret Submission Post #371.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Has an actor in a live action adaptation of a book nearly exactly matched your mental image of the character?

(Only applies if you read the book before you saw the movie and/or before you had ever seen pictures of the actor in the role, of course.)

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even sure this book is even known, but: Ismael from Snow Falling on Cedars. I think as a whole the film adaptation was sub-par,but I really liked Ethan Hawke as Ishmael.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[ginainthekingsroad]

Adrien Brody as Meyer Landsman in The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Landsman is actually never physically described beyond being tall and thin and presumably Ashkenazim. I actually did a fancast of the entire main cast, but his is the only one where I see him every single time I read the novel.

ERA: oops, it seems I misread this as people who have actually portrayed those roles, not the way we imagine them. Sorry! I'm also sorry the world will never get to have Ian Holm as Miles (and Mark) Vorkosigan.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[comradesmiler]

Ron Perlman as Hellboy.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Michelle Dockery in Hogfather. I suspect she was grown in a lab somewhere for the express purpose of playing Susan Sto Helit.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall. I imagined her a bit younger, but apart from that, perfect.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[intrigueing]

J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man ;)

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Not all, but a scary high percentage of the cast from the ASOIAF adaptation look exactly like how I pictured the characters.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[kaijinscendre]

Martin Freeman as Bilbo.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[rubbertea]

Christopher Lee as Saruman and Matt Lewis as Neville Longbottom.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Ian McKellen as Gandalf.

Yes, I know the book said he had "eyebrows the stuck out past the brim of his hat" but come on, no one actually has eyebrows like that.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[chardmonster]

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[iceyred]

Clark Gable was the perfect Rhett Butler.

Johnathan Taylor Thomas was a good Tom Sawyer.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[herpymcderp]

Most of the GoT cast is surprisingly spot on, with the exception of Daenerys, Robb, Ned, Loras and Bran. Everyone else is just incredibly perfect.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Do comics count? Because Patrick Stewart as Professor X.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Rue from Hunger Games. <3

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Jeremy Brett = Sherlock Holmes. Esp. in the earlier episodes where he was younger and slimmer, before he had health issues.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

When I read The Lost World and read the description of Prof. Challenger, I thought "OMG, Conan Doyle is totally describing John Rhys Davies!" Then I found out there was already a movie version of the book with Davies playing Challenger. I've never tried to find a way to see it, though. I'm a little scared because it's from 1992, so it pre-dates Jurassic Park but is too late to have awesome Ray Harryhausen-type effects and I doubt it had a Star Wars-level budget, so it probably looks terrible.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Richard Armitage as Thorin.

*waits for objections*

Re: Visually perfect casting

[lunabee34]

I'm not a visual reader. I almost never visualize stuff when I read. So no. LOL

Re: Visually perfect casting

[ryttu3k]

Harry Potter: Dame Maggie Smith as McGonagall, Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, Rupert Grint as Ron, Julie Walters as Molly, Evanna Lynch as Luna.

Main ones there where I disliked the casting - Snape and the Marauders (FAR too old - James and Lily were only twenty-one when they died, Snape would have been thirty-one in Philosopher's Stone and not in his fifties, Oldman and Thewlis looked like they were cast to match Rickman's age). And it just... feels completely iffy - a good part of the tragedy is that James and Lily were basically just kids when they were killed. The actors, though, made them look like they were like... twice that. So that casting I actively dislike and thought was done very poorly.

I'm also kinda neutral on Daniel Radcliff and Emma Watson - casting-wise they're fine, but make-up wise, they had missteps (even if the contacts hurt, they could have at least CGed Dan's eyes green, and I'm not keen on them ditching Emma's glorious fluffy hair from the first film and instead making Hermione look very sleek and fashionable later on).

Lord of the Rings: Sir Ian McKellen IS Gandalf, okay. Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn. Sean Astin as Sam. Can I say Andy Serkis as Gollum? Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman. John Rhys-Davies as Gimli.

Most of the cast I actually find to be basically amazing, and the ones that don't fit my image perfectly still... kind of end up making the roles their own? For instance, Billy Boyd is technically too old for Pippin (who's canonically mistaken for a child at one point), but he's so... Pippinish I just ignore that. David Wenham doesn't match Faramir visually (neither does Sean Bean, actually - they're both meant to have dark hair and grey eyes), but he just GETS him. And Miranda Otto's a little too old to play twenty-three-year-old Eowyn, but again, I was seriously sold on her acting.

With the Lord of the Rings ones, even the slight missteps kind of... replace most of my mental images of the characters. The HP ones generally don't.

Re: Visually perfect casting

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Gary Oldman as Sirius Black.

He was my approximate mental image before I ran across manga-style fanart. When the first PoA pictures came out I was like "Oh! That what I used to think of him as!"

Re: Visually perfect casting

[(Anonymous)]

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were perfect as Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.