NeverarGreat said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
RicOlie_2 said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
The Empire Strikes Back
Hired a beautiful young actress to play the body of Palpatine (I would have kept Clive Revill to play the voice, though).
May I ask why you think a beautiful young girl is suitable to play Palpatine?
I've grown tired of antagonists who are ugly and misshapen on the outside. IMO, true evil is only ugly on the inside -- on the outside it is beautiful and attractive; if it weren't, if it were as ugly on the outside as on the inside, no one would ever give in to it.
On the flip side, I'd also like to see some protagonists who look like the Elephant Man; stereotypically beautiful heroes are just as tiresome as sterotypically hideous villains.
Beautiful on the inside ;)
Seriously though I agree that more heroes should be unattractive. As long as it stays away from Disney cheapquel fodder.
I think just having everyday looking heroes and heroines is enough. Nobody wants perfect looking chisel jawed specimens from mount olympus. Mark Hamill looked like anybody so we could identify with him better. I thought it was very crafty starting the Captain America film with Chris Pine looking all weedy, thin and small so we were well on his side long before he turns into muscle bound perfection later in the film. The opposite would be the actors that Verhoeven used in Starship Troopers to make a satirical point.
But a villain can be anything in Star Wars so I agree it would be a shame if they just went down the scars and black robes route for the new films. Palpatine was fantastic in ROTJ but all the pale immitations since in the EU and the PT have watered it down.
Oh and to underline your point, one of the Sith in Dark Forces2 was the Elephant Man lol
