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vulgarweedI suppose just about everyone has to do this sooner or later, because everyone has looked at everyone else's fancasts and had lots of feelings about why everybody else is SO WRONG.
I tried to be less wrong in my own eyes, which is sure to be SO WRONG in someone else's. This is a work in progress--I am complete shite at remembering actors, for one thing. I've also only done the supernatural characters so far, frankly because they're the easiest and the most fun. I'm actually kind of surprised by how many current fan favorites turned up in here.
Angels and Demons
Aziraphale
Kenneth Branagh
Crowley
Cillian Murphy
Hastur
Benedict Cumberbatch
Ligur
Mark Sheppard
The Metatron
Alan Rickman (again!)
Beelzebub
Ron Perlman
The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse
War
Rooney Mara
Famine
Tom Hiddleston
Pollution
Tom Felton
DEATH
Christopher Lee (again!)
What say you?
It does bother me that they're all white. And yet, the characters in GO are so cartoonish in so many ways, especially the supernatural beings, that casting them as PoC can lead to a different kind of problematic-ness. I'd welcome feedback on this too.
I tried to be less wrong in my own eyes, which is sure to be SO WRONG in someone else's. This is a work in progress--I am complete shite at remembering actors, for one thing. I've also only done the supernatural characters so far, frankly because they're the easiest and the most fun. I'm actually kind of surprised by how many current fan favorites turned up in here.
Angels and Demons
Aziraphale
Kenneth Branagh
Crowley
Cillian Murphy
Hastur
Benedict Cumberbatch
Ligur
Mark Sheppard
The Metatron
Alan Rickman (again!)
Beelzebub
Ron Perlman
The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse
War
Rooney Mara
Famine
Tom Hiddleston
Pollution
Tom Felton
DEATH
Christopher Lee (again!)
What say you?
It does bother me that they're all white. And yet, the characters in GO are so cartoonish in so many ways, especially the supernatural beings, that casting them as PoC can lead to a different kind of problematic-ness. I'd welcome feedback on this too.
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Date: 2012-05-26 01:31 am (UTC)True, but so much of the story takes place in London, which is very diverse. I've seen the idea of Crowley being played by a non-white actor go both ways in people's opinions. I tend to agree with you: he is really the hero and protagonist of the book, and we do sympathize and empathize with him thoroughly most of the time. I think it's OK for Crowley not to be white, as long as the far more actually demonic Hastur and Ligur are. But then, keeping all the supernatural beings white-looking makes a kind of sense too, since they're actually all sort of wearing human "costumes" and not their true forms. Maybe if they're all white, they would actually appear less truly human than the much more diverse cast of actual humans. None of them actually have a race or ethnicity in human terms at all!
Wensleydale or Brian or both could be PoCs too. I'd say Pepper and Adam, except that they're described as having red and blond hair respectively. (And of course a PoC Antichrist would take us back to the offensiveness issue, even though he's not in any way actually evil.) Anathema could certainly be mixed-race, and Newt as well.