[HPFGU-Movie] Azkaban - Oldman casting

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/2003 10:53:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

> From: "daughterofthedust" <daughterofthedust at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Azkaban - Oldman is Inspired Casting
> 
> 
> 
> "Laura Ingalls Huntley" 
> >That said, Oldman just does *not* fit my mental image of Sirius in 
> >any form.  However, I trust Cuaron and all the people working PoA, 
> >and I *do* fully expect them to make it work.
> 
> 
> Cool. I'm sure I was pretty harsh, but I just thought that it had 
> gotten rather ridculous for people to be upset that Oldman doesn't 
> fit their "mental image" and then want someone who is physically 
> more attractive, but doesn't have the skills, isn't right age-wise, 
> or isn't even English just because they do fit their "mental image". 
> It just smacks of women living down to a certain expectation, IMO 
> (i.e. the "Sirius" fantasies).
> 
> 
> 
> >But you can't blame me for being just a little disappointed at the 
> moment,can you?  
> 
> Nope, not if your hormones have nothing to do with your 
> dissapointment... ;-)  And if not, I most definitely was not 
> referring to you. 
> 
> 
> >Just like I can't blame you for thinking that Oldman is nothing
> >less than perfect?  
> 
> Not, since my opinion is based primarily on what he can bring acting-
> wise and not "mental image" wise to the table....But you know, it is 
> fun to imagine...
> 
I'm getting pretty tired of some of us being labeled as having hormonal 
problems because we had a visual image of Sirius as a larger-framed man than 
Gary Oldman.  Let's keep these topics on the subject and stop attacks that 
are uncalled for and inaccurate.  I am an artist and read "visually" so I do 
visualize characters and scenes based on what I'm reading.  From the 
description of Sirius in the book, he has dark hair (Oldman doesn't but 
neither does Rickman -- that's what wigs are for) and was handsome in the 
wedding photos and sounded like he had a large build (Oldman can be 
attractive, but not "handsome" in the usual sense of the word, IMO, to which 
I am entitled).  I'm American and don't really care who's Brit and who's 
Aussie or Kiwi -- UK accents give me the "ambiance" of England whether the 
actor is British or Aussie or whatever (I know there are "broad" Aussie 
accents like Southern or Boston accents, and I grant you that kind of accent 
wouldn't work -- I'm speaking in generalities here).  Those of you who can 
tell the accent of one neighborhood in London from another are welcome to 
criticize the actors' accents -- my only problem with accents is when Malfoy 
sounds like an uneducated street tough with a mouthful of marbles (maybe he 
had braces then, who knows) which was not only out of character, but made it 
harder to understand his lines.  Oldman is a good character actor.  There are 
lots of other actors who are good actors as well as having the larger build 
and the kind of looks apparently many of us expected Sirius to have.  I 
expect the movie will be wonderful and we will believe Oldman is Sirius, but 
I hope to be able to enjoy his performance without further memories of people 
having attacked other people for having a case of "hormones" when they 
expressed their opinions on who might have done a good job in this -- or any 
other -- part.

Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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