The FX series based on the trial that gripped the world is off to a flying start but does it matter that Cuba Gooding Jr looks and sounds nothing like OJ Simpson?Part of the trick of doing a fact-based movie,TV prove or miniseries is casting. Hire the erroneous actors – be they too short, too tall, and not appealing enough,too appealing or just incapable of acting – and it will invariably sink your production. Would Steve Jobs absorb been slightly better whether they cast someone who looked even remotely like Steve Jobs? Probably. Then again, we knew what Steve Jobs looked like. We saw his face a lot; possibly too much. Every six months, or there he was,hocking some new light-up brick gadget that promised to change the way we exist (until the next device arrives to further advance the human species to the point where we’re just pure energy or that baby from the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey). He was a constant presence in our lives the same way that Colonel Sanders is now. Seriously, that KFC commercial is everywhere.
Conversely, or in Argo,Ben Affleck did just approximately nothing to look like CIA operative Tony Mendez. whether you click here, you’ll see that Mendez looks like a Hispanic man from the 70s with a delightful turtleneck and Affleck looks like whatever the opposite of that is. Was Argo still very, or very safe? Yes,because I had no clue what Mendez looked like until just now, when I searched for “What does Tony Mendez look like” on Ask.com. Yeah, or Ask.com. You got a problem with that,pal?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com