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Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder have one key trait in common: they almost never miscast and their rapport with their actors is stellar
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Ana De armas would've been perfect for "The Batman" but I'm ok with Kravits, she was great in High Fidelity.
sorry for derailing your threadOP, but I do believe they do "miscast" by portraying the world as 90 percent white, and 10 percent black/hispanic/asian
Nolan certainly doesn't seem like a guy you could probably chill and have a beer with, but at the same time, plenty of actors have worked with him again and again, so he must be enjoyable to work with at some level?
...but at this stage of his career, it'd probably be hard to say no if he offered you a role.
I agree with this but I'm not sure why we're specifically targeting Nolan or Snyder for this.
This is unfortunately a hollywood problem.
My reaction when Nolan casts black dude to lead next time-bender film:
Sucks to be a latino/latina though. Oh wait, there was Ramirez that dirty cop in TDK. Yeah...
Nestor Carbonell also played the Mayor in TDK and TDKR.
Zuckerberg and Bezos are probably the 2 people closet to being an irl Lex Luther to anyone that ever lived, so I actually liked the angle of casting Eisenberg and characterizing Lex as a brilliant, but amoral Silicon Valley-type.
That being said I don't think he was given good dialogue or directed very well so the portrayal came off as awkward.
That being said I don't think he was given good dialogue or directed very well so the portrayal came off as awkward.
Always found in interesting that Leo hasn't worked with Nolan again
Casting Bane as a white guy is a pretty egregious miscasting.
Bane is Hispanic.
Bane is Hispanic.
Oh huh, I only really know Batman through the film's so I didn't know that. That's definitely not good.
Gonna have to agree with this
And Tom Hardy as Bane
Also wasn't fond of Joseph Gordon Levitt as Robin
I do love Tom Hardy as Bane, not as a serious villain but as a meme villain. That voice is something else.
It's always conflicting for me when an actor does a great job, but it also being whitewashing. I give it a pass in older movies, but films today that do that should be criticized for it.
If we're gonna go with that, we cast a white guy as Ra's Al Ghul, who is obviously of Middle Eastern descent. In fact his decoy was Asian.
I'm sure he could have had a spot in any of Interstellar, Dunkirk or Tenet.
I actually liked Amy Adams as Lois.
With that said, she can't be the worst Lois in a world where Bosworth was Lois.
Well the thread is about Nolan and how he's always on point with casting, when the reality is he is also guilty of whitewashing like a lot if not most other Hollywood directors
HE could have been good if he didn't play Lex Luthor as the Riddler meets The Joker. As far as I know, his take on Lex, was his choice, and they let him run with it because "hey crazy worked for Heath!"
haha, i posted that picture and was thinking about how what a weird choice she was. i can't describe how excited that superman returns trailer made me....total bummer
Apparently all actors cast on Uwe Boll movies got along pretty well with him, but his movies still suck, so I don't think this is significant in any way for us as the audience.
No, but I didn't think he personally did a bad job. You just couldn't fucking make out half of the words he was speaking, which ruined the presentation.
Only role he would've had in interstellar would've been Cooper and Nolan specifically wanted Matthew for that.
There's not a single American in Dunkirk so I'm not sure what role he would've occupied if cast.
And based off of the cast for Tenet, it looks like Nolan was going for some new blood.
He made a great Bane, wat you talkin bout? The look, the build, the eyes, hell even the goofy ass voice has a sort of eerie menacing sound to it.
I don't even think Jesse was miscast. I think Snyder's vision for Lex was lame. But that aside, I really hate that I read your post, Bor. It's not your fault. I just now wish I could un-know what I just read.
Was there any backlash to Nolan whitewashing Bane and Ras AlGhul? Because there's a lot of directors who'd get dragged over coals for it.
The main villain in Watchmen was absolutely miscast. Like, if you're going to do a whole movie with a "Who did it?" mystery, perhaps don't cast a person that looks and acts like an evil supervillain right from the get go. When I first watched it, as soon as that character came on screen I said, "Yep, that's the person. That's who killed the Comedian."
Just about everybody else in the movie was cast really well though. Rorschach is the best one.
She was excellent as Selina, but I think she would have done a pretty bad job as Catwoman in my opinion. She was more like a proto-Catwoman in TDKR so I gave her a pass.
The movie would have been better with almost any other villain. And Nolan should have recast The Joker for the court room scene. It made no sense with Bane.
Hathaway wasn't great either. TDKR is a mediocre movie.
EDIT: TDKR is still leagues above any Snyder trash, though.
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Unfortunately not. I remember complaining at the time and most people telling me it didn't matter because either those characters were actually white or because he didn't whitewash Lucius Fox.
Oh and his one Latina character is an obvious Montoya expy but I guess was changed so people wouldn't be mad about her being a corrupt cop? Don't know if he's ever used a Latina character/actor since then.
Are Nolan and Snyder not in the title for their "perfect casting" a hypothesis that invites plenty of people to prove it wrong?
It's not for any nefarious reasons. Nolan usually has an idea as to what actors/actresses would best suit the role that he has for the story that he wants to tell. In Inception's case, he specifically wanted DiCaprio for Dom (and bc he thought it would be interesting to work with Leo). Nolan is usually the type to want to work with as many different actors as possible, although you do see returning ones like Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine.
