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Post by hermoine on Nov 24, 2004 11:43:07 GMT -5
Yup! I couldn't hold my mouth shut when I read the article that it would be done in a movie. I'm really happy it will be!!! I've nearly read the whole book and the excitement is certainly never waning.
The article said that Tom Hanks will be playing Robert. I'm pretty happy about that. We'll have to see who will play the others now. I hope they get Silas right. I've always pictured him a worse than Gollum or similar to, kind of guy.[glow=gold,2,300]Sort of Spoiler!!![/glow]And just a couple of minutes ago I was singing the apple falling due to gravity song on Newton's head, so for you guys who have read the book, you know which part I've done.
This is the link where I found the article:
Cracking the 'Code'
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 5, 2005 10:06:46 GMT -5
So here's this, I only read the book 'till the part when Silas kills the nun because I was sick that night and had to interrupt it to throw up. And everytime I throw up, everything I did that day, ate, read, drank, is immediately associated with vomit and I can't do it again. It's stupid, I know, but it's me. The book was enjoyable, though I don't like the whole fanatic movement that followed it. Everyone seems to be obsessed with the book. Nevertheless, I have a few sayings on this:
1. Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon - Not. I pictured Robert with a Viggo Mortensen sort of face, with un-shaved beard, piercing blue-eyes and that little thing on the chin. I guess that's how he's described in the book... and Tom Hanks doesn't quite fit the discription. He's a fine actor and he'll make a fine job, but as for physical match, not really.
2. I've just heard Julie Delpy is cast as Sophie. She's French, beautiful and sweet but it hurts to see Julie Delpy in a Blockbuster.
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Post by d on Jan 5, 2005 11:30:37 GMT -5
If the blockbuster is actually good though, it won't harm her independent career. It's the bad ones that make a mess of things I've given up on believing that Tom Hanks can't pull something off because I never thought he could be believable as a hitman ("The Road to Perdition"), and that's now one of my favourite roles for him. The hardest part for me to digest is Ron Howard directing. I have trouble imaging his style of filmmaking being put to this story, but you never know.
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Post by hermoine on Jan 5, 2005 12:26:29 GMT -5
Well I saw The Terminal last Saturday and I have to say Tom Hanks was really great in that. In my opinion, he really managed to impersonate a confused Russian(I think) guy.
I've looked up Julie Delpy:
And she doesn't look like I imagined Sophie to be. This must be some kind of oppositition to the fact that this is the first character in a book I've managed to visualise in my head.
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Post by d on Jan 5, 2005 12:58:07 GMT -5
It's always hard to accept actors in roles once you've developed an image of your own. I remember how some people opposed the casting of Elijah Wood as Frodod in LOTR while I thought it was a great choice before the films were released. It's best to just keep an open mind and hope the actor is good enough in the part to give you a whole new impression of the character.
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Post by hermoine on Jan 5, 2005 13:12:12 GMT -5
Yeah I guess you'd never know how the actor might do in thew character unless you see hir playing in various movies with relatively different characters to see how hir can do various moods etc.
In my mind I had never seen a film directed by Ron Howard. It turns out I have, A Beautiful Mind being one of them. And I'm sure I've seen others he directed but am not quite aware of it.
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Post by d on Jan 5, 2005 13:17:57 GMT -5
Apollo 13, Backdraft, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ransom, and Willow are among his movies.
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Post by hermoine on Jan 5, 2005 13:26:00 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any of them.
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Post by d on Jan 5, 2005 13:31:35 GMT -5
Really? Not even "Willow" (a miniature LOTR from back in the days when a full LOTR was considered impossible)?
Well, he generally makes good movies that remain enjoyable over time, but most of his films carry a certain "lightness" to them that makes "The Da Vinci Code" seem like a challenge to him. Of course, he could very well rise to that challenge (I really hope so).
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Post by hermoine on Jan 5, 2005 13:41:47 GMT -5
Nope, afraid not. Guess that might be seeing how I wasn't even born when that film was done and they never showed it on TV.
The only other place where Ron Howard rings a bell is Happy Days.
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Post by Ritsu on Jan 5, 2005 14:06:07 GMT -5
Yeah, Ron Howard's movies are always... you know, that kind of strong story about human development and relationships that kinda touch you, like A Beautiful Mind. Though I spent sometime convincing myself to watch it because of Russell Crowe. Probably the actor I dislike the most, along with Nicolas Cage and Mel Gibson (though Mel... it changes with the film, but he's got no manners).
Hmm... yeah, though I think that when an actress/actor appears in a blockbuster, good or bad, the chances of her appearing in another one are much bigger and I think blockbusters give actors more money than independent productions. So sometimes actors who do it for the money go into the blockbuster path. Although Nicole Kidman's in all those big sucesses and was in Dogville as well.
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Post by d on Jan 5, 2005 14:13:11 GMT -5
I think the blockbuster/independent/money thing mostly has to do with the person. If someone I admire becomes corrupted by the money, I think they're probably not the person I originally took them for anyway. Russell Crowe has problems with his behavior (although I think they are exaggerated by the media), but I still love to watch him in movies because, as an actor, I think he's brilliant. I've never thought that about Mel, although he is very direct, which can turn some people off when he says things they would prefer not to have heard in such a way. I used to like Nic Cage, but he's fallen out of grace with bad movie choices and odd behavior over the last few years. There are older movies that I loved him in, but then I see some of his more recent films and just cringe
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Post by hermoine on Jan 7, 2005 10:24:59 GMT -5
I think the blockbuster/independent/money thing mostly has to do with the person. If someone I admire becomes corrupted by the money, I think they're probably not the person I originally took them for anyway. Same here! They normally all start all right, some of them with barely any fame at all, like, well-known relative, in the case of Nicholas Cage. It's just how they master the world after their first moment of fame, that shows what kind of person they truly are.
D, I found a piece of newspaper from something like 1995 and it was the part where you have the programmes to be aired. Can you believe they were actually showing Willow? Talk about coincidence.
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Post by d on Jan 10, 2005 11:11:42 GMT -5
LOL Willow rules! At least it did until the LOTR movies came out
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Post by KoNeko on Jan 10, 2005 19:16:24 GMT -5
I'm reading this book at the moment and I think it'll be awesome as a film. I mean, it's written totally with film rights in mind. The only thing is I agree with Mina on the whole Tom Hanks thing. I don't think so, because everything he does reminds me of friggin' Forest Gump. Like, Apollo 13 crashed because Forest Gump was driving the spaceship. It's kind of like, he hasn't done anything since then that really compels me to think otherwise about him (although the Green Mile came pretty damn close, but Mr Jingles took the cake for that one.)
I was thinking even someone like a younger Harrison Ford could do it, but that's just more my thinking from Indiana Jones. Or maybe even someone like Johnny Depp, if they dressed him up like an academic, a la Sleepy Hollow. How good does he look with glasses! (Although I don't think I'd be convinced that he'd make a very serious symbologist, but he can still play a pretty smart dude.)
Hermy, the link for Julie Delpy's picture isn't working. I'm really curious to know what she looks like, because when I was in high school I had a French teacher called Sophie! And she fits the description Brown gave in the book...
Ugh! Don't get me started on Mel Gibson.
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