Re: CAPTAIN AMERICA-shooting July 2010:Casting, Rumors, Pics till rele
Clearly most American posters on the BBS are being sensible and mature about the prospect of a non-US citizen playing Cap. But I've no doubt that if Marvel cast an Aussie, Brit, Irishman, whatever in the role, the online petitions, letter writing campaigns and fanboy fury would kick off quicker than you can say 'Daniel Craig IS James Bond'!
But those petitions would be extremely insignificant compared with the vast majority of potential viewers who will neither know nor care anything about this movie or the cast until they show up at the multiplex and scan the board for something good to watch for a coupla hours.
I'm just kinda amazed that Hollywood folks worry about the tiny percentage of vocal letter writers/petition signers/stalkers.
Any actor who wanted to be taken seriously for the role would already have honed his accent to perfection before he showed up for the audition.
We would hope so, but lots of weak American accents continue to get a pass in TV shows and movies.
This article grades a bunch of actors who have attempted to speak "American," with varying degrees of success:
http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2008/11/_television_is.html
Funny article, but frankly I think they're too easy on Hugh Laurie - A+? He growls to cover up for his imperfect accent - or like the article says, "front loading on the consonants" - he's pulling some kind of trick and it doesn't sound right. Anna Torv is, indeed, dreadful but I've never had much problem with Charlie Hinman (I guess I should start listening closer. I get distracted by him wandering around shirtless and taking showers.)
And where's the guy who played Linc on
Prison Break, he just flat out gave up trying.
Trivial Fact: In some countries, it is taught that there are five continents. In some, six, in others, seven. Does that mean one of them is true and the others wrong?
I see you read the comments in my link. Frakkin hilarious.
But fun to be reminded that I, too, learned in school that Europe is a fake continent and the real continent is Eurasia - which you can see just by looking at any frakkin' map.
If North and South America are the same continent by virtue of being connected, then Europe, Asia and Africa are also one continent and therefore there are
four continents.
In the interim I looked at merriam-webster.com(m-w.com) and they have the definition of continent as six or seven. I can see the Europe/Asia combo but not the N.America/S.America one those two are very distinct wheras E/A seamlessly is one land mass.
If the rationale is "it's what people who live there say," then it's Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. That's seven.
If the rationale is "it looks like it's separate," then it's Eurasia, North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. That's six.
If the rationale is "it's not touching," then it's Eurafricaasia (or whatever), America, Australia and Antarctica. That's four.
There's no consistently logical scheme that will getcha five continents.
