I don't get agitated over 'gender bending', 'race bending' and the likes and feel kinda sorry for people who let minor details like that ruin a story for them. [/QUOTE]
Honest question - would you be OK with a new adaptation of Black Panther with the role of the Black Panther being played by Melissa McCarthy? Would you be OK with a new version of Ghost, but with the role of Oda Mae Brown being played not by Whoopi, but by Danny DeVitto, and the role of Sam Wheat being played by not Patrick Swayze, but by Lucy Liu? If not, why?
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Lucy Liu made a pretty good Watson, IMHO.
pittrek · Member since
That's why I chose her as an example of an actress playing an originally "white male role"
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I am OK with that.
SkyeTV · Member since
Thought it was very enjoyable.
More the first 2 episodes to be honest.
Has really got me in the mood for watching as much as I can on it.
I like the Lugosi version and I'm just after watching both Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski Nosferatu films (as well as watching a few documentaries on "the real dracula")
Thistle · Member since
I used to love the Werner Herzog Nosferatu starring Klaus Kinski, but I found it recently tarnished after reading that Kinski allegedly raped his daughter when she was a little girl.
So I have a question - would you guys still just appreciate the movie as a piece of art, or forget about it completely because of something like that?
pittrek · Member since
It is possible to like art and at the same time acknowledge that some people relevant to that piece of art are/were monsters. I still love the Cosby show, I have no problem watching Harvey Weinstein produced movies, I have no problem watching Roman Polanski's movies - none of that means that I'm OK with the crimes of the people behind them.
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I'm not OK with that.
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Thistle wrote:[/b]I used to love the Werner Herzog Nosferatu starring Klaus Kinski, but I found it recently tarnished after reading that Kinski allegedly raped his daughter when she was a little girl.
So I have a question - would you guys still just appreciate the movie as a piece of art, or forget about it completely because of something like that? [/QUOTE]
I think it's difficult to dismiss art because of the sins of the artist. if we did that - as a society - there'd be very little left to appreciate.
Thistle · Member since
Fair points made, Brenski and Pittrek - I just found it off-putting once I had learned about it. Maybe the spark will come back at some point.
