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Casting Paradise Lost
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:37 pm
by [Syl]
This is one of my final exam questions for my English class, and I'm at a bit of a loss. Knowing my luck, I'll probably get the other essay option, but for this one, I have to cast Satan, Adam, and Eve.
If you haven't read it before (I hadn't, other than to skim pieces of it):
Satan: Charismatic, strong, arrogant, eloquent
Adam: Authoritative, hard-working, self-sacrificing
Eve: Submissive (yet simultaneously rebellious and envious), curious, sensual
Who would you pick?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:32 pm
by lucimay
um....
kate, sawyer, and jack?
(with both jack and sawyer being interchangable
in the roles of adam and duh debil)
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:58 pm
by Orlion
lucimay wrote:um....
kate, sawyer, and jack?
(with both jack and sawyer being interchangable
in the roles of adam and duh debil)
Ha! (Though I think Ben Linus would make an excellent devil)
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:00 am
by CovenantJr
Kevin Spacey as Satan, Summer Glau as Eve. Adam...no idea.
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:52 am
by finn
Wow Spooky, I thought the very same thing about the Lost characters and scrolled down to Lucimay!........ What the hell would Lurch make of that!!!
Others? The Devil would be at any time a good role for Jack N, or Pacino, but for PL I might look at someone like Viggo Mortensen.
Adam would be Ed Harris for me, but perhaps he's a bit old now, tho' if age (or mortality) were no limit I'd probably go Gregory Peck or Burt Lancaster. Of todays generation I'd think, Christian Bale would do a job or Karl Urban perhaps, more box officey would be Nicholas Cage.
Eve? Kristen Stewart might be good.
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:25 pm
by [Syl]
Viggo Mortensen was my original pick for Satan. He was great in the role in The Prophecy. But I think I like Sawyer for the part. Having seen Jack in other movies, I think I'll pass.
Kate's not a bad choice, but I kind of want someone more voluptuous and earthy... which makes me think of Christina Hendricks.
Adam is the tough one. Brad Pitt?
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:18 pm
by CovenantJr
Ooh, Christina Hendricks. Good choice. That's right up her street.
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:16 pm
by wayfriend
Adam: Colin Farrell
Satan: Ian McKellen
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:52 am
by The Dreaming
Satan - Willem Defoe
Adam - My ideal choice would be 80's Bruce Willis, but were we making it now... Adrian Brody?
Eve - Rosario Dawson?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:41 pm
by Menolly
Going a totally different route...
Satan: Laurence Fishburne
Adam: Will Smith
Eve: Beyoncé
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:28 pm
by The Dreaming
I think you're casting the Blaxploitation version.
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:35 pm
by Menolly
...I was serious though...
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:01 am
by Rigel
Satan's an easy choice for me, Tom Cruise would absolutely kill the part (in a good way)
Eve's hard, but in a good way... there are many actresses that I think could pull the part off; having just watched
Changeling, I'm thinking Angelina Jolie.
Adam is harder. For an easy win, go with Tom Hanks, but I feel like I'm just picking favorites if I go for a third big name, so I'll leave that one open.
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:28 pm
by Menolly
Rigel, you just posted Hyperception's choices, which he said instantly to me when I showed him this thread. But he also felt they were a bit too commercial/blockbuster to be taken seriously, so he refrained from posting.
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:55 pm
by danlo
Satan: Mickey Rourke
Eve: Dita Von Teese
Adam: Jared (from Subway)
OK, I wasn't kidding about Mickey...
Don't know if Dita can act, but oooooh baby!!!
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:51 am
by finn
I've recently been watching Lie to Me (TV) and you might like to consider Tim Roth as Satan.
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:00 am
by Damelon
danlo wrote:Adam: Jared (from Subway)
Is Adam that annoying a character?
