Perhaps I am biased by my love for these particular characters, but your castings for Penelope, Cassandra, and Priam have slotted neatly into my vague mental impressions of those characters and redefined them. Priam as weighed by his years; Penelope as pensive and lacking the coy, supremely confident sexuality of her cousin Helen; and Cassandra as glorious, posed between vulnerable/delicate and quiet strength.
In contrast, Milind Soman as Achilles is pretty hot, but he doesn't 'click' quite as perfectly for me; he won't become my dominant mental picture.
Anyway, as a die-hard Classics nerd and Homer fan I have so much love for this project. Part of what made the movie 'Troy' so horrible for me (well, besides the whole 'Sword of Troy' biz--whiskey tango foxtrot?!) was the historically inaccurate casting. Newsflash, Hollywood: historical/mythological Troy is in Turkey. And it's pretty obvious where the 'Greeks' are from. From whence the pasty European actors? The whole movie was whitewashing on an epic scale.
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Date: 2010-01-27 03:21 pm (UTC)In contrast, Milind Soman as Achilles is pretty hot, but he doesn't 'click' quite as perfectly for me; he won't become my dominant mental picture.
Anyway, as a die-hard Classics nerd and Homer fan I have so much love for this project. Part of what made the movie 'Troy' so horrible for me (well, besides the whole 'Sword of Troy' biz--whiskey tango foxtrot?!) was the historically inaccurate casting. Newsflash, Hollywood: historical/mythological Troy is in Turkey. And it's pretty obvious where the 'Greeks' are from. From whence the pasty European actors? The whole movie was whitewashing on an epic scale.