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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/14/06 11:50pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	I don't think McGregor is a great fit for Kaine. He isn't quite weasely enough, or greasy enough.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/16/06 6:44pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Just out of curiosity (since I don't take this into account in my casting), is Kaine ever described; physically? I can't recall. -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/16/06 10:18pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	I think so. He's at least described as a carbon copy of a hero in a Mills & Boon type women's romance novel.
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The_Face Title: Ex-Manager, now with more real butter flavor Registered: Feb '03	Date Posted: 9/18/06 1:38pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	It would be interesting to see McGregor try a villain. Kaine's a tough cast. -----signature----- “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” - John 1:5
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/19/06 10:29am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Hugh Laurie as Joffy Next The Standardized pro-Baptist conjoined Methodarian-Lutherian sisters of something or other split into two subgroups yesterday . . . I have to attend two dozen different breakaway church groups every week. I often forget which one I'm at and, as you can imagine, preaching to the Idolatry Friends of St. Zvlkx the Consumer the sermon that I should have been reading to the Church of the Misrepresented Promise of Eternal Life can be highly embarrassing. Andy Serkis as Bartholomew Stiggins Darwin won't mask you sins, Flanker. You made our environment hostile. You will fall too. But you won't fall because of a more dominant lifeform. You will fall over YOURSELVES. Sean Bean as Spike Stoker The funny thing is, I now find copies of Sniper magazine in the toilet - and a copy of Great Underworld Hitmen has appeared in the kitchen. Perhaps she's trying to tell you something? Yes . . . but what? Kate Winslet (latex makeup) as Gran Next I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics. Jeremy Northam as Miles Hawke Tell me, did you and I ever - Did you and I ever what? Did you and I - Did you and I ever . . . visit the mammoth migrations? The migrations? No. Should we have? Thursday, are you SURE you're okay? -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/19/06 6:37pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Serkis is perfect for Stiggins. Great casting. And Gran Next... is that a bit of a giveaway?
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/20/06 8:49am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	A bit, I guess, though Judi Dench would work, given outstanding film work in Iris. Pierce Brosnan as Acheron Hades I was in love once, you know. I was quite besotted, in my own sort of way. We used to plan heinous deeds together, and for our first anniversary we set fire to a large public building. We then sat on a nearby hill together to watch the fire light up the sky, the screams of the terrified citizens a symphony to our ears. But it didn't work out. The course of true love rarely run smooth. I had to kill her. Alan Rickman (voice) as The Cheshire Cat I WAS the Cheshire Cat. But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I'm now the Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat, but it doesn't have the same ring to it. Maggie Smith as Miss Havisham You nearly killed eight people! My count was closer to twelve. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not. Anthony Perkins (computer generated) as Joseph K You scoundrels! You can keep all your hearings! Orson Welles (voice) as The Magistrate Not blue, green. You have brought shame to your profession, Herr H. You are under arrest! On what charge? I am not authorized to tell you. Proceedings have been started and you will be informed in due course. But this is preposterous! No, this is Kafka. -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/20/06 6:52pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Smith is an excellent choice as Havisham. She's got the right amount of sternness and lovability.
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The_Face Title: Ex-Manager, now with more real butter flavor Registered: Feb '03	Date Posted: 9/21/06 2:16pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	I'd also forgotten how many characters were in that book. Wonderfully ridiculously large ensemble. There's something oddly appealing about Hans Gruber as the Cheshire Cat. I don't know much about Maggie Smith, but she seems a good choice. I don't remember enough about the The Trial scene to comment. -----signature----- “The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” - John 1:5
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/26/06 12:20pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Judi Dench as The Red Queen Taken! Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood I simply adore Mintolas. You've heard of them, of course? A bit like Munchies but minty - and, if it's no trouble, a few pairs of nylon tights - and sme AA batteries; a dozen would be perfect. Hugh Grant as Vernham Deane He looks down on me because I'm from a racy potboiler - but I can hold my own against him any day. He was trained during the days when cadets were cast into Pilgrim's Progress and told to make their own way out. Michael Caine as The Bellman Item six: Now this I regard as kind of serious, guys. In this 1631 printing, the seventh commandment reads: Thou shalt commit adultery. I don't know who did this, but it's just not funny. Jeremy Irons as Harris Tweed Are you sure you wouldn't rather have an M-16? A charging stegosaurus can take some stopping, I'll be bound. An M-16 would be sure to raise suspicions, Mr. Wemmick. Besides, I'm a traditionalist at heart. -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/26/06 9:53pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Dench is perfect. She wouldn't be a bad Havisham, either. I don't remember Dashwood. Is there some relevance to Winslet being cast as her as well?
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/27/06 10:35am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Kate Winslet played Mariane Dashwood in Ang Lee's 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility, opposite Emma Thompson as Eleanor. -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 9/29/06 10:00am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	John Cleese as Trafford Bradshaw We've struck a reworked idea that ended up in Our Mutual Friend, a few dirty limericks and an unintelligible margin squiggle - but nothing much. Cate Blanchett as Aornis Hades You're a good person, Next. A fine human being. It will be your downfall. I'm counting on it. Ricky Gervaise as Jack Schitt Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary/O'er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next -/This Eyre affair, so suprising, gives my soul such loath despising/Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. Kate Winslet as Mary I've left a rough precis of the story taped to the fridge, but don't worry too much - since we're not published you can do pretty much what you want. Note: you may be a bit shocked to see Kate Winslet playing four parts in one story . . . even Peter Sellers couldn't do that; he took a header down the stairs instead, if you recall your apocraphyl horror stories about Stan Kubrick. But, it shakes down as such; She plays Thursday Next, which necessitates her playing Gran Next, as I'm sure we all know. Marianne Dashwood is the character she played in Sense and Sensibility and my love of intertextuality means I would kill to see Winslet as Thursday meet Winslet's version of Marianne. And as for Mary, well, she's the character Thursday is slated to replace in the unpublished Jack Spratt novel. Ergo, she and the character she replaces, must have at least a passing resemblance; of course, since the character she's replacing, Mary, is a book character, she will, of course, be quite a bit more attractive, so I've tried to find a slightly more 'pretty' picture of Winslet to represent Mary, as opposed to the slightly 'scruffy' one I picked to represent Thursday. You will instantly notice two things: 1. I have put way too much thought into this. 2. I am obsessed with Kate Winslet. Forgive me. And that, for the record, ties up Lost in a Good Book with a whopping twenty-nine characters cast! I'm quite proud. As soon as I get The Well of Lost Plots from the library, I'll move on to that one. -----signature----- I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without having ever felt sorry for itself.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 9/29/06 10:46am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Cleese would do brilliantly. I'm sure there was a Python sketch where he wore a pith helmet... Blanchett is inspired casting. I remember you agonising over Aornis in our PMs about this. You nailed it. A remarkable-looking woman who can also blend in very easily. I like Winslet as Mary, as well. I think that would work very well.
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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 9/29/06 1:10pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Egads, John Cleese would be perfect. "Name's Bradshaw. And this is m'wife, Melanie . . ." That's a pick of genius. Blanchett I'm not so sure about; haven't seen her act enough to make a proper judgement. She looks like Aornis would, though, so a tentative approval there Also, from the previous post: Michael Caine and Alan Rickman instantly elevate the awesomeness of anything they're in. Sir Michael as the Bellman would be incredible; the quote you've provided is just the perfect one for that accent. And Rickman would probably do remarkably well as the Cat. He's great at voice work, for all he tends to get landed with the villainous roles. Which he is great at, though. "Cancel the food scraps for lepers and orphans. No more merciful beheadings. And - and - call off Christmas!" slam -----signature----- BeTS Best Author '08 NEW Eleven Summers - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29657584 Lightning and Diamonds - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29251762 Into The Shining Day - http://boards.theforce.net/a/b1/29224914
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