Russell Crowe is no TC

Post by **Seafoam Understone** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:00 am

danlo wrote:
Iryssa wrote:just so long as no one gets the hairbrained idea to desecrate the movie by bringing the Olsen twins in for the part. *grin*
I know! Hillary Duff!

Linsday Lohan...

Post by **Ninquelote** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 2:22 pm

I want Loreena Mckennitt to sing in the score. She has one of the most beautiful voices, and I wanted her replace Annie Lennox in the return of the king. Loreena just has that mysterious and imaginative voice. She would be perfect.

Post by **amanibhavam** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 3:46 pm

Ninquelote wrote:I want Loreena Mckennitt to sing in the score. She has one of the most beautiful voices, and I wanted her replace Annie Lennox in the return of the king. Loreena just has that mysterious and imaginative voice. She would be perfect.

Perfect coice. She was my first candidate for the _whole_ LOTR score, not just some singing.

Post by **Iryssa** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:37 am

AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! I ALWAYS think about the Land when I hear her music now...*sigh* she has SUCH a beautiful voice. And absolutely, she should have done Lord of the Rings!!
ok, done with my outburst...*grin*

Post by **Ninquelote** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:36 pm

When I read the first trilogy one or two years ago (can't remember), I always listened to Stolen Child, Standing Stones, The Book of Secrets, The Highwayman, Night Ride Across the Caucasus and beautiful Skellig (which give rise to this mysterious feeling in you, and which I think is most connected to the land). When I listen to the music now, I can't help thinking about Andelain, the miserable extermination of the giants (which I think is the most tear-jerking part in the whole chronicle), Mhoram, the beautiful landscape I've pictured and not to forget the power in every stone and grass straw...

It's so perfect to listen her music while reading the chron. You become so poetic

Listen to the songs!

Post by **zenslinger** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:34 pm

I think the Haruchai could have what you might call a pan-Asiatic look that could even include Native American features. Just not too extreme -- I think you could put Chow Yun Fat, Wes Studi and some European actors together and if you made them up to have similar skin-tones, they'd look right.

As for how you'd have them move -- well, a lot of their impression comes from when they're not fighting. The fighting you could do some variations on kung-fu themes so that it would be martial arty without being explicitly like a kung-fu movie. You'd have to do a lot of reasearch and testing shooting on how exactly you'd shoot them. A lot of their fighting comes in battle scenes where a lot of others are fighting, so it wouldn't have to be like kung-fu movie style shooting in which the camera is revolving around the main practitioner.

A big challenge there.

Post by **matrixman** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 3:22 pm

I personally did not picture the Haruchai in my mind as an Oriental race. That's just too specific for me. SRD's descriptions of the Haruchai left enough room for my own imagination. My view is probably in the minority here, but that's all right.

Of course, it's possible that SRD had an Asian people in mind all along when he created the Haruchai, and I just didn't get it. But until he says so, I've got my own mind.

As for the imaginary movie, I can see the imaginary filmmakers getting into arguments over what politically correct ethnic group should portray the Haruchai.

Post by **Skyweir** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:11 pm

Matrixman wrote:I personally did not picture the Haruchai in my mind as an Oriental race. That's just too specific for me. SRD's descriptions of the Haruchai left enough room for my own imagination. My view is probably in the minority here, but that's all right.

Of course, it's possible that SRD had an Asian people in mind all along when he created the Haruchai, and I just didn't get it. But until he says so, I've got my own mind.

As for the imaginary movie, I can see the imaginary filmmakers getting into arguments over what politically correct ethnic group should portray the Haruchai.

me neither matrix man .. I too have never pictured the haruchai as oriental ..

to me Tu'uc (from Stargate) would make a brilliant depiction of a haruchai imo ..

be cool to see the kind of haruchai Donaldson envisions

Post by **Ninquelote** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:54 pm

Skyweir: can you show us a pic of this tu'uc?

Post by **SoulBiter** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:49 pm

dANdeLION wrote:It should be done as an animated film, with Sean Connery as the voice of Mhoram, and James Earl Jones as Foul.

Totally agree with this. Remember that Foul is only really seen as a non-corporeal presence with glaring red eyes. (Except there at the end of the Power that Preserves) Every time I read Lord Fouls Bane, at the end when they wrest the staff from Drool the Despiser is laughing at Mhoram. When I read that I hear James Earl Jones voice doing the laughing.

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:37 am

Ninquelote wrote:Skyweir: can you show us a pic of this tu'uc?

I will make it my mission!!

LOL

let me see if i cant find one on the net and put it in one of the galleries!

If you have ever watched STARGATE ... he's like the alien Jafar guy .. he comes without the ability we share for luxuriates in emotions like "excitement" "fear" "jovial hysteria" etc..

in my mind he is BAnnor .. well if not BAnnor a very close second.

Post by **amanibhavam** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:25 am

Post by **Skyweir** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:03 am

perfect amy!!!!!!!!!!!!

brilliant!!!!!!!

Post by **Seafoam Understone** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:11 am

yeah I agree.. only without that THING on his forehead.. hee hee

But then you'd have to teach him some serious Martial Arts. Too bad Bruce Lee isn't around... he had a knack for creating a whole new style.

Post by **Dragonlily** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 2:14 pm

His name is Teal'c, played by Christopher Judge.

Post by **markjeffrey** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 6:09 pm

Is that the Mercedes logo on his forehead?

Post by **Skyweir** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 12:40 am

Dragonlily wrote:His name is Teal'c, played by Christopher Judge.

thank you dragonlily .. I was sure I didnt spell it right

LOL .. yeah and he is awesome!!

and sure if he was playing bannor he wouldn't have the thing on his head unless haruchai were to have thingies on their heads .. LOL

it will come off ya know

he werent born wiv it anatomically attached or anyfing

Post by **matrixman** » Sat Jun 26, 2004 5:23 am

Skyweir, I agree with your choice of Mr. Christopher Judge. He has the look that is close to the kind of Haruchai I envision in my mind. He would make an excellent Bannor indeed!

I just don't know about his acting abilities, since I don't watch the Stargate television series. (Dodges hate mail in bullet time...)

Post by **ur-Thor** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:19 am

Ah ha! I knew that there must have been some mention of Christopher Judge's character Teal'C from the Stargate sg1 series in here somewhere. even though I've always imagined a more Asian ethnicity, the resemblance of that character to that of a Haruchai is pretty strong, even the actors physical presence works, except for the obvious fact that he's quite tall.

Post by **emotional leper** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:45 am

The Haruchai always struck me as Maori minus the Tatooing.

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