Moments where you knew you were seeing Spock and not Zachary Quinto?

[M'Sharak]

Re: Moments where you knew you were seeing Spock and not Zachary Quint

Is John Cho in the last clip during the rooftop scene of Off Centre? Or am I reading what I want to see in this?

Holding the tripod or whatever it is? Sure looks like it. I've never seen the show, but Cho is credited as appearing in all 28 episodes, and two eps feature his character's name as part the episode title.

Edit:

Looking at the comments, a couple of other people spotted him, too.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Re: Moments where you knew you were seeing Spock and not Zachary Quint

^ Well, it's good to know I'm not going insane after all.

 

[M'Sharak]

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"Going"?

 

[notwendium]

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Quinto's "sell" took the lonest, IMO because of Nimoy.
Kirk was second easiest, on account of his childhood being radically different than Spock's and the others.
McCoy was the easiest... Urban was Bones within the first 30 seconds.

 

[Search4]

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Frankly, as an original TOS person... I thought Quinto nailed it from first scene. The Science Academy - double nailed. The scene when he's on the bridge, and realizes what Nero is doing - "planting a singularity at the heart of Vulcan" - amazing.

Compare Quinto with to Spock during early TOS... lots of issues. "SCANNERS ON, FULL INTENSITY!" wasn't Nimoy's finest moment.

Final point: when Quinto-Spock misidentifies Nimoy-Spock as "Father"... brilliant.

Okay a bit of controversy: i did not think Nimoy played as well as normal in the movie. Spock appeared rushed, almost breathless, and far too casual. "Since my traditional greeting would appear to be oddly self-serving"... sorry, that's not Spock.

 

[Brian]

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I got that same sense of breathlessness in Nimoy's Spock. I attributed it, maybe incorrectly, to Mr. Nimoy's age. His teeth didn't look right, either. Ill-fitting or something. Maybe that contributed to the strange delivery.

Leonard Nimoy is still a god in my Trek book, though.

The "traditional greeting" line was a groaner for me, too. It felt like fan-wank, like he was saying it with an implied wink to us, the audience, not to his younger self.

 

[diftorhehsmusma]

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actually that line worked for me. saying "live long and prosper" to your younger self would be a bit silly. i also liked nimoy's performance, spock has obviously grown a bit less restricted in his old age. this seems to make sense given what he went through in the years after TOS ended. he's a bit less serious, more accepting of himself.

quinto's portrayal is different, to be sure, but it was obvious that he worked closely with nimoy and his interpretation for a solid foundation.

 

[DevilEyes]

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actually that line worked for me. saying "live long and prosper" to your younger self would be a bit silly. i also liked nimoy's performance, spock has obviously grown a bit less restricted in his old age. this seems to make sense given what he went through in the years after TOS ended. he's a bit less serious, more accepting of himself.

quinto's portrayal is different, to be sure, but it was obvious that he worked closely with nimoy and his interpretation for a solid foundation.

I thought that was one of the best lines in the movie (and the people in the cinema certainly laughed heartily at it).

Nimoy's Spock is different now, because he is supposed to be different. That's character development. It took him a long time, but Spock has finally accepted himself for what he is. We've seen this process since TMP, but the key moment was last time we had seen him, in "Unification",when he learned, via mind-meld with Picard, how his father really felt about him. Spock is not tormented anymore and not in denial of his emotions or his humanity - he is now older, wiser, more relaxed, serene.

 

[LeahBoBo]

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Spock is not tormented anymore and not in denial of his emotions or his humanity - he is now older, wiser, more relaxed, serene.

You've summed it up perfectly.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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Quinto passes muster as Spock because the nailed the casting and the writing.

A point I completely disagree with. Especially when you consider he shares the same movie with Nimoy... so either Quinto is miscast as Spock, or Nimoy is. Voice, face, height, posture, gesture, way of speaking, nothing fits.

Pine has an excuse, because he is the only actor playing an adult Kirk.

You shouldn't cast Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck for playing the same character at different ages in one movie either.

If a child at 10-15 and an adult and 30-40 play the same role, it's almost irrelevant, because the changes are so drastic. But not so much between a 40 year old and an 80 year old.

You would hate Roots.

 

[LeahBoBo]

Re: Moments where you knew you were seeing Spock and not Zachary Quint

Quinto passes muster as Spock because the nailed the casting and the writing.

A point I completely disagree with. Especially when you consider he shares the same movie with Nimoy... so either Quinto is miscast as Spock, or Nimoy is. Voice, face, height, posture, gesture, way of speaking, nothing fits.

Pine has an excuse, because he is the only actor playing an adult Kirk.

You shouldn't cast Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck for playing the same character at different ages in one movie either.

If a child at 10-15 and an adult and 30-40 play the same role, it's almost irrelevant, because the changes are so drastic. But not so much between a 40 year old and an 80 year old.

You're kidding, right? That is a 40-year gap and you damn well better believe there will be drastic changes in the same person over that course of time.

 

[KirkSpockTOSFan]

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I think Quntio did a amazing job as Spock in the movie. I don't think picked a better actor to play the new role of Spock better than Quntio. I was really impressed of how he potrayed Nimoy's charcter. Nimoy and Quntio are the two best actors they picked to play Spock. I don't think anybody else could've pulled it off other than Nimoy and Quntio, I think they are both great! I tought it was great to see both of them in a scene toghter. To me that was a very special historcal moment to see both Spock's face to face. That is just something you are not going to see all the time in a Star Trek film.

 

[Amaris]

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For me, it was the moment he stood with his mother, holding her by the arms and looking at her with deep concern. It clicked right then and there. I knew this was Spock.

Quinto's "sell" took the lonest, IMO because of Nimoy.
Kirk was second easiest, on account of his childhood being radically different than Spock's and the others.
McCoy was the easiest... Urban was Bones within the first 30 seconds.

No kidding! I hear this argument from around the corner of the shuttle and right as he appears I just thought "Holy crap, it's DeForest Kelley!"

Oh, man! Karl Urban just beat the hell out of that character. Woo!

J.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

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^ Yeah, he did. It was such a wonderful wonderful surprise (urban's mccoy)