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Just started watching Rome, which looks very entertaining already (and yes, I'm going to copy it for you,
cycnus39 as I'm sure you'll be interested - alas, I will only have a couple of eps before we next meet but I'm sure the rest can follow).
For an HBO show, I find the casting quite entertaining - have to say Ciaran Hinds as Caesar is inspired. But did they just decide to only cast British actors? ;)
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For an HBO show, I find the casting quite entertaining - have to say Ciaran Hinds as Caesar is inspired. But did they just decide to only cast British actors? ;)
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Date: 2005-09-11 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-09-11 12:22 pm (UTC)"Patrician" in American culture means British. :)
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Date: 2005-09-11 12:40 pm (UTC)I guess it works the same way as Brits making the best villains? ;)
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:13 pm (UTC)Brits are often the villains, but they are stylish, intellectual ones. They can also be the paternal good guys ---as in The Day the Earth Stood Still. Michael Rennie is the alien.
Even after two centuries, you can see that our view of the 'mother' country is ambivalent, mixed. But then, even our Revolution was ambivalent as well.
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:46 pm (UTC)But what about Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? Does this mean they had to cast a Yank in the role of R. Hood because he was a lowly criminal??
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:56 pm (UTC)Of course, the fact that none of the American heroes bar Morgan Freeman could act their way out of a paper bag is beside the point... ;)
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Date: 2005-09-11 02:07 pm (UTC)And we don't supply American actors, we supply American STARS. Acting is not a requirement for a lead role over here. Who needs actors anyway, when there are Brits around? ;-)
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Date: 2005-09-11 02:11 pm (UTC)I think you hit the nail on the head there! :P
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:51 pm (UTC)But in Spartacus, the Brits are classy villains, and Olivier's character does love his Rome and tho his failing is hubris, one can even see his POV.
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Date: 2005-09-11 01:55 pm (UTC)And then of course there's the whole homoerotic subtext in Spartacus... ;)
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Date: 2005-09-11 04:31 pm (UTC)RE: subtext.
Oh yeah. What do they say in that scene? Snail and oysters or something like that?
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Date: 2005-09-11 04:39 pm (UTC)Yep, they talk about oysters and snails in the famous bath scene, nothing more. And it's still too provocative for the audience of the time. ;)
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Date: 2005-09-11 04:26 pm (UTC)Still, I've watched and enjoyed the first two eps and am keen for more! :)
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Date: 2005-09-13 12:47 pm (UTC)But I do buy that to be a truly cool villian, you have to have a british accent. :P