Good illustration and that is very close to how I saw him...
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Good illustration and that is very close to how I saw him...
A thick Yorkshire brogue could be Low Speech.Originally Posted by Sai Sheb
If that's the case, then RP would be High Speech.
Sounds good to me! I hope they do have the different ways of speech, keep things interesting.
If there are ample malapropisms ("astin" to go with that "keeflecks") from Roland as he converses with humans from our Earth or interacts with products from Earth, i'll be happy.
Couldn't agree more...
Any word who they are considering for Eddie, Jake and Susannah? What are your thoughts if they cast a Caucasian actress to play Detta/Odetta?
I'm not crazy about Idris's casting but making a POC character white is not the same as vice versa.
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Jake has been cast and Aaron Paul is rumored to play Eddie, still don't know about Susannah And if Roland can change then any thing is possible...
Jake has already been cast.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
Not going to happen. Changing a black civil rights activist into a white person is asking for a shitstorm.
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I'm not sure Eddie and Odetta are going to be in the first movie.
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
But if a white man can become black 'this time's then why not the other way around??? She could become a white supremacist!!! Now that would fuck everything up...
Normally I'd agree, but the general awareness of these characters is so small that only a portion of the King readership will care (this is not like Hermione in the Harry Potter play; Potter is fully pop-cultured and public awareness is near 100%).
But if Al Sharpton has actually read TDT, God help us...
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Doesn't look likely..
I don't know if you're being sarcastic here but white people are in the overwhelming majority of media over racial minorities so it's not the same thing at all.
No one cares about the Ancient One and look what happened with Tilda Swinton.
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First off, being objective I do think it's fair to select a white actress to play Odetta/Detta since they did that to the lead.
This will still keep the racial tension banter. Being PC to please a wider audience may actually diminish the story. One thing that went right with the Deadpool movie is they did right by the core fa base.
I didn't know what the Ancient One is and I had no idea what happened with Tilda Swinton, which perhaps is my point (I'm one of the masses, and word of the controversy never made it to me). Of course, if there was an uproar, the fact that I was oblivious to it would be of little comfort to the film makers.
Having just looked it up, I would say comic properties tend to have large and vocal following with decades invested in the story. Maybe (but I see this as a huge 'maybe') it would be the same with TDT, but I don't see if. But I admit, I'm just guessing. If the victimhood/grievance industry were to get hold of such information, then yes, we may well be off to the races; that is definitely how today's world works - certain groups perpetually seek fuel for the offense fire.
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I can see across the whole of London and beyond
The producers were upfront about why they made the changes so that they didn't close the Chinese market.
Well as I've said before... I'm not crazy about the casting of Roland. I think it's going to distract from the character and overall story. But it's not a 50/50 situation with black and white actors. That's not me being PC.
(Funny you mention Deadpool given how they made a white character black in that film too.)
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So refreshing to see someone else that gets this.
(On more than one occasion, i've seen fans of varying intensity angrily argue that a white man would never be cast to play Martin Luther King Jr....as if it were somehow an equal comparison. Yeah, really.)
Heh. Nah, got to be West Country. UK West country (i.e. Cornish or Devonshire) not US West country.
Joking aside I wouldn't mind if Elba spoke with his own accent more or less rather than put something on.
I always imagine a raccoon or a red panda when I think of him.
Hmm... tbh I never really gave his accent much thought. The only thing I know for sure is that Roland must have a deep voice.
Luckily Elba's voice is inline with what I imagine Roland sounding like.
Ok, we all know that Roland love's a smoke from his poke now and again but do you think the film will portray this? Should it?
If it's relevant to the scene, of course.
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