Nah, I'm totally getting what you mean, I think. With some of them, it is hard to divorce because they originated the characters. It's sort of like soaps or musicals. With those cases, you sort of expect people to have different takes on it. But with figures like Jack, Buffy (and given your attachment to Renee, I'm including her in this mix as well), it's nearly impossible to picture the character with someone else in the role. To do so, you'd have to divorce yourself from the attachment you have to the original and see if you can form a new attachment to a different one, and that's HARD when, as you say, you're really attached to certain characters. I imagine this may be what Doctor Who fans feel like everytime they cast a new Doctor. Or how Star Trek TOS fans must have felt like going into the Star Trek Reboot Movie. Sometimes, you just can't believe it until you see it working in action, with the writing and the chemistry. And you can't do that using just headshots of actors. So I totally get where you're coming from.
Interestingly enough, they did do a (well HALF) Asian version of P&P. I believe they called it Bride and Prejudice, since it was a Bollywood version of P&P. And for the most part, that one worked. It was just a matter of adjusting the context. After all, Clueless had Stacey Dash and Donald Faison in it and it's nothing more than a modern adaptation of Emma. Shoot, Baz Luhrman even managed to sell John Liguizamo as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. But I suppose in all of those cases, we're changing things around and bringing them forward in time to allow the change to be believable. Still, the stories are pretty much the same.
The only thing I can think of that actually follows Chromatic Casting in the originally envisioned time period is the BBC's Merlin, which casted a black Guinevere and as random black actors showing up all around. Of course, that series plays fast and loose with the legends (aging down Merlin, switching Gwen and Arthur's origin stories), has completely anachronistic tomatoes, and Gwen invents feminism in episode 10 of the first season- but then again it's a series with a talking dragon and magic. So it doesn't seem to really care that it is anachronistic and thinks you shouldn't care either. I kinda love it for that reason.
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Date: 2010-01-27 09:51 pm (UTC)Interestingly enough, they did do a (well HALF) Asian version of P&P. I believe they called it Bride and Prejudice, since it was a Bollywood version of P&P. And for the most part, that one worked. It was just a matter of adjusting the context. After all, Clueless had Stacey Dash and Donald Faison in it and it's nothing more than a modern adaptation of Emma. Shoot, Baz Luhrman even managed to sell John Liguizamo as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. But I suppose in all of those cases, we're changing things around and bringing them forward in time to allow the change to be believable. Still, the stories are pretty much the same.
The only thing I can think of that actually follows Chromatic Casting in the originally envisioned time period is the BBC's Merlin, which casted a black Guinevere and as random black actors showing up all around. Of course, that series plays fast and loose with the legends (aging down Merlin, switching Gwen and Arthur's origin stories), has completely anachronistic tomatoes, and Gwen invents feminism in episode 10 of the first season- but then again it's a series with a talking dragon and magic. So it doesn't seem to really care that it is anachronistic and thinks you shouldn't care either. I kinda love it for that reason.