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Dec. 17th, 2004 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosI kept meaning to post about the whole Ursula K. Leguin whitewashing-of-Earthsea thing, because the woman's got a point that just drives me nuts about book-to-movie adaptations sometimes. There are hardly enough decent roles in Hollywood for African-Americans and other people of color without Hollywood feeling free to pull stuff like this with characters for whom their race is so important to who and what they are. It's one thing to cast Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin -- I seriously can't think of a better actor the right size for the role, although how his performance turned out is another discussion entirely -- but the whole Earthsea casting issue boiled it down to that tried-and-true cliche of a world full of white people and That Magical Black Person. Thanks, but been there, watched that, was vastly more amused.
I think if I ever do get The Monsters of Minooka stuff published, and they decided to make a movie about it, the only thing I'd really press for with whomever they cast as Sean is that he be short. In my head, he's gone between looking like Dom and a shorter Nick Stahl in T3, so I've always pictured him as white and scruffy. But the major thing is that I wanted to write a short male hero, which I hardly ever see. Every hero or male love interest I always see is six and a half feet tall and drop-dead gorgeous and plated in muscle. Damn it, I wanted a wiry little normal-looking guy who spends half his time trying to prove that he can kick your ass. I want a severe sufferer of short-man's syndrome who's the first to yell, "You want a piece of me?!" and follow through on it. That's what I want. (Oh, and also, I've got a Mother Nature in three parts ... an elderly white woman, a middle-aged black woman, and a young Asian woman. They'd better damn well stick with that, or I'm going to have fits.)
Yes, that would be me counting my chickens. *eye roll* ;)
I think if I ever do get The Monsters of Minooka stuff published, and they decided to make a movie about it, the only thing I'd really press for with whomever they cast as Sean is that he be short. In my head, he's gone between looking like Dom and a shorter Nick Stahl in T3, so I've always pictured him as white and scruffy. But the major thing is that I wanted to write a short male hero, which I hardly ever see. Every hero or male love interest I always see is six and a half feet tall and drop-dead gorgeous and plated in muscle. Damn it, I wanted a wiry little normal-looking guy who spends half his time trying to prove that he can kick your ass. I want a severe sufferer of short-man's syndrome who's the first to yell, "You want a piece of me?!" and follow through on it. That's what I want. (Oh, and also, I've got a Mother Nature in three parts ... an elderly white woman, a middle-aged black woman, and a young Asian woman. They'd better damn well stick with that, or I'm going to have fits.)
Yes, that would be me counting my chickens. *eye roll* ;)
