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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #645 on: June 15, 2010, 01:16:58 PM »
...But who is he?

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #646 on: June 15, 2010, 01:45:02 PM »
I haven't worked out perfect casting for all parts, but I've thought of Jordana Spiro as Murphy ever since I started reading The Dresden Files.
Jordana Spiro
Similarly, I've thought for a while that Alana de la Garza would make a great Susan.
Alana de la Garza
Is it a cliché to say that the descriptions of Thomas made me think of this guy?
Tom Welling
Hmm. Dunno what I'm still doing wrong with the links.

First thing is your linking to a whole web page, not a link to an image. You can insert the link but not as images.

Second I don't think you can link to an image on imdb, they probably don't want hotlinking to increase their traffic.

Use google and search images. Then use those to insert image.



Here are 3 images of the above mentioned actors.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #647 on: June 15, 2010, 02:03:34 PM »
Thanks for the help, lets see if this works.  I hope the image isn't to big.  Is there anyway to shrink the size with the image tags?  I also wouldn't want to take up too much space on this website.
My pick for Thomas.  He's 28, and he already has the grey eyes.


yes you can resize it. just choose your width and height like this.

[img width=60 height=40]{url}[/url]

I think it will always size it down to width of 600 or height of 400 if it's larger, and it will size it proportionally.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #648 on: June 15, 2010, 04:39:34 PM »
yes you can resize it. just choose your width and height like this.

I think it will always size it down to width of 600 or height of 400 if it's larger, and it will size it proportionally.

Thanks,
Please be patient with my while I try this out...



Okay, a couple of trys and its working now.  YEA to the "Modify" function!!!
It didn't work when I left the image tag snipet in the Quote line, though.  Odd that.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #649 on: June 15, 2010, 07:03:44 PM »
...But who is he?

Oh, sorry, guess that would help.
He's Lee Mead.  He's a British Actor and Singer.

Here he is being all angsty in white.  It's from a Dutch TV show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XndxDf96jYo

The song is Close Every Door from the musical Joseph, but if you ignore that
and a couple of the lyrics, it sort of fits.  Plus the weird set looks like some sort of magical prison
set up in the Never Never. 
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #650 on: June 15, 2010, 07:11:32 PM »
Lee Mead, has a good look, but I am not familiar with his acting. But everyone has to start somewhere I guess.

He kind of reminds of the guy from Entourage though, Adrian Grenier, it's the hair I think.

And before you think it, no I don't think Adrian Grenier could pull off the right Thomas attitude.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #651 on: June 15, 2010, 07:30:40 PM »
It's always about the hair ::)

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #652 on: June 15, 2010, 07:40:22 PM »
@ Atanvarno

Tom Welling as Thomas, I'd back that. He has the strong silent type thing going on.

I have only seen a few episodes of Smallville, but I always wanted to watch the whole thing, I just never had the time to catch up on it.

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« Reply #653 on: June 15, 2010, 08:49:53 PM »
I don't suppose you've missed much by not catching all of Smallville; I watched the first season, and the writing varied from uninspired to unfortunate. It's hard to tell if Welling's up to much as an actor, since the Clark Kent character is such a dip. I want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but...

But he certainly is, er, Bowflex-y. And gray-eyed. So there's that.

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« Reply #654 on: June 15, 2010, 08:56:33 PM »
Tom Welling's not a bad choice, but he's not exactly waife thin these days with that Superman inverted A frame going on.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #655 on: June 15, 2010, 09:53:16 PM »
For some reason though when they first introduced Thomas I had this image in my head.

It's a character from the Witchblade comics.

And I have never read or seen any of the Dresden Files graphic novels so I don't know what any of the characters in that look like.

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« Reply #656 on: June 15, 2010, 10:30:05 PM »
I can defiately groc with the long flowing hair :)

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #657 on: June 15, 2010, 11:06:13 PM »

Sorry rose but have to disagree with most of these for a movie (but I can't disagree with how you see them in your head ~_~)

I'll explain.

Karl Urban as Kincaid- no explanation here, I just don't see him as Kincaid.
Justin Hartley as Thomas- I don't know who he is.
Viggo as Michael - Good choice, Sean Bean would be another
Meg Ryan (48) as Murphy -  I loved Meg Ryan when I was growing up. Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Ireland, etc. These were my generation of celebrity females. But Meg is little old now to be Murphy. And Meg didn't age well either.
Meryl Streep (60) as Charity - too old, and can you picture Meryl as the wife of Viggo.....uhhhh no.
Kate Bosworth as Molly - Kate is pretty, I am not too sure about her as Molly though.
Catherine Zeta Jones (40) as Susan - a little older than I would picture Susan, Jones would make a good Arianna Ortega


Keep in mind is easier to make someone look older than it is to make someone look younger.

"Karl Urban as Kincaid- no explanation here, I just don't see him as Kincaid."

OK...before Urban got the role of Dr. McCoy, he had another thing in common with the late DeForest Kelley; both were routinely typecast as bad guys.

Urban as Kincaid, maybe...Warden Morgan, definitely
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #658 on: June 16, 2010, 01:06:18 AM »
"Karl Urban as Kincaid- no explanation here, I just don't see him as Kincaid."

OK...before Urban got the role of Dr. McCoy, he had another thing in common with the late DeForest Kelley; both were routinely typecast as bad guys.

Urban as Kincaid, maybe...Warden Morgan, definitely

All I can think of is Pathfinder and Chronicles of Riddick. And unfortunately both of those were not great movies. I am not saying it's Urban's fault, just unfortunate that he was in both of those.

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #659 on: June 16, 2010, 01:20:51 AM »
I still say:

Thomas Raith: Matt Bomer :P
http://www.mattbomerfan.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=11736&fullsize=1

Karrin Murphy: Victoria Pratt (I think she fits)
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm399217152/nm0695560

And maybe for Butters this guy:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2959381504/nm0862328

He's on the show Bones. Plays a good nerdy type forensics guy.
He fits the profile I think for Butters.

Just another of my two cents.