Sirius

[GulPlum]

Corgi wrote:
> --- GulPlum wrote:
> > faura2002 wrote:
> >> about Pierce Brosnan for Sirius? ;) 
> > Urghh.
> 
> <?>

Don't you recognise onomatopeia when you see it? :-) I really, 
really, do not like the idea. :-)

> > Nope, totally the wrong type. Besides, Brosnan would be far too 
> > expensive.
> 
> How do you mean 'wrong type'?  Because -- aside from the fact that, 
> yes, he would be too expensive, and too high-profile to boot, that 
> ectomorphic Black-Irish look seems to suit Sirius really well.

Wrong type inasmuch as he's big and burly, not to mention far too 
muscular for the Sirius I envisage. The original poster's idea was 
born from his appearance in Die Another Day, in which he was 
bedraggled, not emaciated, which is what Sirius should be after a 
dozen years in Azkaban. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, Brosnan 
didn't even "do" bedraggled too well, never mind emaciated 
(considering he was meant to have spent over a year being tortured 
and starved).

> Hence, the solution that is Jason Carter (who's probably more Scots 
> than Irish, but still -- Celt is Celt.)

Well, whilst I don't object to Jason (who I think would make a great 
*book* Sirius), I'm still holding out for Alan Rickman's almost- 
contemporary Jeremy Irons. :-) I know that most people hate the idea, 
but his public persona is sufficiently ambiguous to allow him to be 
seen as the bad guy for as long as it's necessary, yet be ultimately 
believable as the good guy, which I'm not sure is the case with Jason 
(I say that as someone who watched Babylon Five religiously but came 
to despise it, in which Jason's character underwent a similar 
deliberate change in perceived characterisation).

More than that, though, the best two baddies from the Die Hard movies 
going up against each other in the Shrieking Shack (and at the end of 
GoF) is just too marvellous an image to be ignored. 

And to top it off, having Jeremy Irons say "Severus Snape" with that 
unmistakable lisp of his is just *so* rich in possibilities...

:-)