This delightfully imaginative exercise underscores what I have occasionally experienced in my reading of imaginative literature. Though I resist the temptation, and in spite of the text's descriptions, I sometimes tend to imagine (mentally superimpose) actual faces on the text's characters. Perhaps I have a latent-gene that means I should have been a casting director for films instead of a university instructor of literature. Frankly, though, (with no pun intended), looking at the Robin Hood casting, I would have thought you might have gotten more highly esteemed billing among the Merry Men of Sherwood. Perhaps you should have a word with the perpetrator of this pleasant whimsy.
Playing a villain is more fun. Rememember Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? Stole the movie right from under Kevin Costner. I think Patrick and I, as the sheriff and the abbott, could probably give Robin and his buddies some real trouble.
Abbot Hugo is extremely cool. i would have given you hero billing but the spots for Robin and his men were all taken - how could i resist giving the psychopathic Will Scarlett to Peter Hitchens?
The mark of a good film/TV series is that, secretly, you think it would be pretty cool to be the villains.
Yes, Rickman was a dominant screen presence (in a film that I did not particularly embrace); however, stealing a scene or movie from Kevin Kostner, a fellow who might be one of Hollywood's most overrated and least skilled actors, must have seemed like child's play to the well-trained and talented Rickman. Nevertheless, you make a good point: villainy and treachery is often much more entertaining than high-minded romantic heroics (just as long as it is in fiction rather than real life). On that note, please carry on within the fantasy, and dare to disrupt the ebb and flow of Robin's anarchy.
This delightfully imaginative exercise underscores what I have occasionally experienced in my reading of imaginative literature. Though I resist the temptation, and in spite of the text's descriptions, I sometimes tend to imagine (mentally superimpose) actual faces on the text's characters. Perhaps I have a latent-gene that means I should have been a casting director for films instead of a university instructor of literature. Frankly, though, (with no pun intended), looking at the Robin Hood casting, I would have thought you might have gotten more highly esteemed billing among the Merry Men of Sherwood. Perhaps you should have a word with the perpetrator of this pleasant whimsy.
ReplyDeletePlaying a villain is more fun. Rememember Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? Stole the movie right from under Kevin Costner. I think Patrick and I, as the sheriff and the abbott, could probably give Robin and his buddies some real trouble.
ReplyDeleteAbbot Hugo is extremely cool. i would have given you hero billing but the spots for Robin and his men were all taken - how could i resist giving the psychopathic Will Scarlett to Peter Hitchens?
ReplyDeleteThe mark of a good film/TV series is that, secretly, you think it would be pretty cool to be the villains.
Yes, Rickman was a dominant screen presence (in a film that I did not particularly embrace); however, stealing a scene or movie from Kevin Kostner, a fellow who might be one of Hollywood's most overrated and least skilled actors, must have seemed like child's play to the well-trained and talented Rickman. Nevertheless, you make a good point: villainy and treachery is often much more entertaining than high-minded romantic heroics (just as long as it is in fiction rather than real life). On that note, please carry on within the fantasy, and dare to disrupt the ebb and flow of Robin's anarchy.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is way cool to play a villain—even if he appeared on a different show. Better at least than playing one of the good guys. Take that, Kurp!
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