Fun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn’t want to be typecast.
What we got instead was awful.
Typecast means that after 2 roles he would have only been hired for wizards from now on?
Well, maybe not wizard typecast, but typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf. To put in in perspective, that’s only one year older than Tom Cruise is right now.
typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf
Isn’t Gandalf a multi-thousand-year-old immortal angel of sorts? Seems like a bit of a strange concern in that context…
The clue is in the word itself - it’s actually a spell that prevents you from being selected to portray literally anything else for the rest of your career as an actor.
Unless you’ve been DuckTypeCast, in which case you can be anything (this is what happened to Gary Oldman)
YOU SHALL NOT TYPECAST!!
Character actor = ian_mckellan (Dumbledore);
I guess it might lead to some snowball effect
There is a funny Studio C sketch where the two get mixed up and go through a checklist to confirm their identity, and Dumbledore checks all the Gandalf boxes and Harry checks all the Frodo boxes.
He asked calmly.
I just came for this comment. Thanks
Harry Potter is a slavery-justifying neoliberal wank written by a transphobic fascist, and it deserves to be forgotten.
Can we try to replace Potter with The Earthsea books? So clear Rowling stole many ideas from Le Guin, and Le Guin herself was amazing. Tons of essays, etc. to get the drift of her ideas. Or Once and Future King? Not as big of a fan of the second series, but the first part is lovely and edifying like the early Potter books.
You’re being downvoted by transphobes. I upvoted you.
Ugh, I hope you aren’t right, but probably.
You know what they say, “scratch a potterhead and a fascist bleeds”
No, I’d never heard that. Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me, but it does fuck with my view of a few people I’ve known…
I’m playing on the old leftist saying “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”. There’s a potterhead in this thread glorifying the UK police, as if England didn’t historically host a huge punk and anarchist movement, and massive anti police sentiment.
You see, the only thing a liberal believes in politically is their own personal convenience. Leftism is all about justice, equality, and putting in the hard work to support each other. Fascism is all about convincing you that it’s in your own interest to attack minorities. So when a liberal is inconvenienced (or their favourite book is attacked), suddenly they care about politics and they radicalise. And the direction they radicalise is to the right.
If someone’s made Harry Potter central to their identity, an attack on Potter is an attack on them. They feel the need to defend themselves. And how do you defend a fascist’s books? You use fascist talking points. Potterheads will always justify slavery, glorify the police, and make excuses for transphobia until the day they stop defining themselves by that book.
Damn, you miserable as fuck.
I didn’t downvote you, but I would guess the other down votes come from not describing why they are similar, or what they are about.
Thank you, that is an actually good point.
Earthsea centers around a boy who shows magical abilities, so he’s sent to Wizarding School.
But you don’t have to take my word for it… Wiki
It’s perfectly fine to like the art and not the artist, you know.
It’s mega derivative though. Don’t really get why it caught on as much as it did, except lucky timing.
Did you consider the audience?
How many kids transitioning to young adults have enough grasp of historical literature or other media to say “what bollocks! This is super derivative! Let’s do some high Arthurian fantasy instead!”? It got popular because it is approachable, entertaining, and knew it’s audience.
Now, jkr might have picked this kind of audience because she new as an aspiring author the quality wasn’t going to be tip top, but that’s a different discussion altogether.
I don’t like the art, it’s poorly written. Harry watches the government get taken over by fascists and then decides to go be a cop. Plus it excuses slavery
Not every police force is the ultra-militarised right wing type you see in North America either.
Poorly written, sure, I’d say a lot of it is too, but so are lots of things.
Regardless, it doesn’t change the point, you can think JKR is a transphobic twat and still like a book. Rudyard Kipling has some great poems and books, despite being racist. Roald Dahl wrote brilliant childrens books despite being a raving antisemite. The Smiths made great music despite Morrissey being a cunt. Etc.
If you want to discard their work on account of the artist’s personalities, then fair enough, more power to you. I’m just saying it’s fine to like the art but not the artist too.
I thought you said to like the art and not the artist. Hermione becoming minister for magic isn’t canon, it’s WoG via the cursed child. It’s not the art. You’re saying to separate it from the artist, but you’re basing your evaluation on decisions made by the artist years later. Hypocrite.
Where have I said I like JKR? Where’s the hypocrisy?
You were the one who brought up events after the books, now I’m not to talk about it otherwise it’s somehow an endorsement of transphobia or something? Lmao
And of course it’s still art - it’s part of the world that the author created. I don’t see how you could possibly argue that it isn’t. It’s HP universe stuff.
Do the events of The Silmarillion not count as art, because it came out years after the LOTR trilogy?
Harry decides to become a cop during the original books. And if you’re going to make decisions about the quality of the books based on fanfic, then so will I. I’ll asset that Harry Potter sucks because Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way is a mary sue and the prose in My Immortal is terrible.
Auror, not cop.
And again, stop asserting that other police forces are like that of the US. Other countries exist and have different cultures, curb your nationalism just a little bit.
I never mentioned fanfic, this is again you going off on a wild tangent.
