Thursday, January 27, 2005
Something’s not adding up here
Yesterday, I was browsing around on IMDB (one of my favorite time-killing pastimes, although in this case, it was ostensibly work-related), where I discovered that Audrey Tautou has been chosen to play Sophie Neveu in the big-screen adaptation of The DaVinci Code. I found this news only slightly more unsettling than the news that the role of Robert Langdon would be played by Tom Hanks.
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Faced with the arduous task of casting the movie version of so popular a book, the casting people simply decided to choose a really popular American actor and a really popular French actress for the lead roles, thus making it impossible for this movie not to be popular. It’s the prom-queen approach to casting, if you will. And it’s an infallible plan, except for the fact that it goes completely against the logic that you should cast people who are, you know, right for the roles.
Although I’m slowly coming around to the idea of Tom Hanks, I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t cast Harrison Ford, which would have made for a wonderfully meta Colin-Firth-as-Mark-Darcy-esque statement. I guess it’s because this movie isn’t being made by a) the people at Working Title, b) Josh Schwartz or c) me. And then…Audrey Tautou? In an American thriller? Was she like the only French actress you could think of? Not that I could name all that many French actresses off the top of my head, but come on. Even Julie freaking Delpy would have been better suited for the role.
Or here
Why, when I check the weather in Birmingham, does the Weather Channel site give me the “ski comfort index”? I’m not even sure what a “ski comfort index” is, but I’m fairly sure it’s something that’s not applicable in Birmingham. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Birmingham’s ski comfort index for today is listed as “very poor.” Well, yes…when you try to ski where there’s no snow, I’d imagine that would be pretty uncomfortable.
Yesterday, I was browsing around on IMDB (one of my favorite time-killing pastimes, although in this case, it was ostensibly work-related), where I discovered that Audrey Tautou has been chosen to play Sophie Neveu in the big-screen adaptation of The DaVinci Code. I found this news only slightly more unsettling than the news that the role of Robert Langdon would be played by Tom Hanks.
It’s pretty obvious what’s going on here. Faced with the arduous task of casting the movie version of so popular a book, the casting people simply decided to choose a really popular American actor and a really popular French actress for the lead roles, thus making it impossible for this movie not to be popular. It’s the prom-queen approach to casting, if you will. And it’s an infallible plan, except for the fact that it goes completely against the logic that you should cast people who are, you know, right for the roles.
Although I’m slowly coming around to the idea of Tom Hanks, I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t cast Harrison Ford, which would have made for a wonderfully meta Colin-Firth-as-Mark-Darcy-esque statement. I guess it’s because this movie isn’t being made by a) the people at Working Title, b) Josh Schwartz or c) me. And then…Audrey Tautou? In an American thriller? Was she like the only French actress you could think of? Not that I could name all that many French actresses off the top of my head, but come on. Even Julie freaking Delpy would have been better suited for the role.
Or here
Why, when I check the weather in Birmingham, does the Weather Channel site give me the “ski comfort index”? I’m not even sure what a “ski comfort index” is, but I’m fairly sure it’s something that’s not applicable in Birmingham. Somewhat unsurprisingly, Birmingham’s ski comfort index for today is listed as “very poor.” Well, yes…when you try to ski where there’s no snow, I’d imagine that would be pretty uncomfortable.
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