[HPFGU-Movie] OT, Troy. Was: American accents.

[Sherry Gomes]

Funny, and please elves, don't kill me yet, but I am blind, so I'm not one
bit impressed by a handsome actor.  and the sighted friend I went with has
never liked brad Pit and has avoided his movies.  maybe, because we weren't
paying attention to who the actors were, but were far more interested in the
characters they portrayed, we liked it very much and have seen it several
times.  We really liked the conflicted character of Achilles, and the honor
and loyalty of hector, that will inevitably lead him to have to make the
decisions he does.  the least interesting of all was Orlando as Paris, but
even he grew a little as the story progressed.

And to try to fit this in with Harry, I think that the complex characters,
such as Snape, Sirius, they are interesting in both the books and movies,
because their motives are mixed and unclear and they are so very good and
bad both.  I suppose that's why I liked Achilles, because he wasn't all bad
and arrogant.  it made me wonder why and what he would do next.  As I don't
like Snape, but he is fascinating because there's a reason he's trusted by
Dumbledore.

sherry




-----Original Message-----
From: Pernille [mailto:bolle17 at frisurf.no] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 9:29 AM
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] OT, Troy. Was: American accents.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:

> And from what I hear, most people in the Troy
> audience were too busy staring at Brad's glistening bod to care    
> either way about his accent! Now, to me he just looks too darn 21st 
> century to play a period piece. 

That's what I think as well. I wasn't talking about his accent. I 
just don't think he was the right actor for that part. I just kept 
thinking Brad Pitt instead of Achilles. 
I mean if you go to a movie to see gorgeous people, this the movie. I 
mean it's a jackpot, (for women and gay guys anyway). You have Brad 
Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom and Sean Bean in one movie for god's 
sakes. Before I saw it I used to make this joke to my friends that 
all the women that came to see it where given buckets for all the 
drool. :D
But if the movie isn't good, the droolable bods aren't enough for me. 
I kind of had the feeling like I was watching a soap opera that had 
used a lot of money on sets and costumes.

Well those are my thoughts on the matter
Pernille 




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