TheBoost said:I was so taken aback at what I percieve as the sheer silliness of the argument, I didn't even look at the evidence presented.
After looking at the photos, I was actually taken aback at how GOOD a casting job it is, at least from a standpoint of a sweet young boy looking like he very well COULD be the clone of the older grizzled man.
Compare the brows, nose, general jawline, and of course coloring, all though that doesn't apply so much in these pics.
Seriously, from a purely appearance standpoint, it's brilliant casting. The resmblance borders on uncanny. I never noticed before, because when they said he was a clone, I willingly suspended my disbelief and never gave dirty little Boba a second glance. I was perfectly content loathing the character for being a stupid character. But now that you mention it, I need to give AOTC credit for that really solid on screen casting.
I don't mean to be in any way offensive, but I have to say that if you think those guys are so alike then your ability with faces only goes so far. But then a lot of people are not good with faces. The majority of people, even. Those guys have some things in common but they are also very distinctly different. If you can't see that, don't blame me.
rcb said: okay now. i don't see why we need to get two actors to look alike when they're at different ages.
Seriously? They shouldn't bother just because the characters are at two different ages? With real life people, people's faces change between when they're a kid Boba's age and when they're an adult but any careful examination will show that both adult and child faces are versions of the same features. So yeah you have to try to get a kid to look like the adult if you want a kid to play the younger version of that adult. Not trying is lazy and an insult to our intelligence.
asked for one thing in return. An unaltered clone for himself." Its your view point, however i don't see how u can use actors as
proof that they aren't clones when they're only characters in a movie.
You can use anything on the screen as proof for theories about the story of the movie. Now you might give them a break if they didn't go so far as stick the two clearly different actors side by side on the screen or if the whole thing was actually necessary. But clearly this situation doesn't qualify for such a break.
see you auntie said:Damn it. I hate it when board members go off their meds.
Oh yeah, it's terribly civilized and enlightened to imply people are nuts when they express a view you disagree with. How terribly clever of you.
see you auntie said:
You have reached a new level of nitpicking and prequel bashing that didn't exist prior to your original post, congratulations!
Good. The prequels should be bashed and nitpicked.
Obi Wan in the prequels has a mole on his forehead where Alec Guinness' Kenobi does not. Zomg Conspiracy. The original Kenobi must has died on Tatooine post episode 3 and some older dude (that would explain the age discrepancy) must have taken his identity. Maybe some evil jedi who planned o lure Luke to the dark side through lying to him about his father!
With Obi Wan we have reason to give Lucas a break and go with it because there's no reasonable option other getting a new actor. Nor did they brazenly place Ewan and Guinness on the screen side by side and try to pass them off as the same guy. The Fett thing is not like the Kenobi situation. It was a unecessary piece of prequel bullshit revisionism. The reasonable option was not to write that shit. If he's going to push that crap he'd better do it right without expecting any great effort at suspension of disbelief from us.
You know what now I think about it, Vito Corleone in Godfather II looks nothing like Vito Corleone in the original, what's up with that?
I always found it hard to buy those two actors as the same character. But they weren't even in the same film, let alone side by side being passed off as the same while with one glance you could see both of them and see they weren't the same. Plus they had a good excuse for using two actors there. They couldn't do anything else. Whereas Lucas could have just abandoned that dumb piece of story.
You don't like the prequels, I don't care for them much either, but you seem to talk about them incessantly. Just ignore them and life will be a lot easier and you won't need to post this kind of rubbish.
Sorry, I don't function like you. Obviously you don't like talking about things you don't like. I do. And my view isn't rubbish just because you guys don't agree with it.
Jeez, try a little original thinking on this board and look where it gets you.