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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/5/06 8:42pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Alan Rickman as The Cheshire Cat It's a laugh, isn't it? What is? That noise you make at the back of your throat when you hear something funny. Let me know if you need anything. Bye. Hugh Fraser as Perkins I can understand children writing about them, but adults should know better. Every unicorn in every demolished story ends up here. I had this idea for a bumper sticker: 'A unicorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.' How about taking the horn off and seeking placement in pony books? I'll pretend I didn't hear that. John Cleese as Trafford Bradshaw Well, I couldn't help noticing that she was . . . Yes? A gorilla. Hmm, our little subterfuge didn't fool you, then? Melanie! Please come and join us. Michael Caine as The Bellman Okay, let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim's Progress, had had had, had had had had. Had had had had TGC's approval? . . . . Right, that's it for the moment . . . Kate Winslet as Mariane Dashwood What can I do to repay you? Don't let Lola Vavoom play you in a movie. Out of my hands. -----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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Coruscant Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 11/5/06 8:45pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	When I do get around to these books, I won't be able to get your frackin casting choices out of my head, Rogue.
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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 11/6/06 1:55am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Cleese's understated ridiculousness would be absolutely priceless for the Melanie scenes. I would pay the price of admission for that alone. The line: "Hmm, our little subterfuge didn't fool you, then?" would be perfect. Subterfuge?!? SHE'S A GORILLA!!!!
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/6/06 11:51am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	TheBoogieMan posted: Cleese's understated ridiculousness would be absolutely priceless for the Melanie scenes. I would pay the price of admission for that alone. The line: "Hmm, our little subterfuge didn't fool you, then?" would be perfect. Subterfuge?!? SHE'S A GORILLA!!!! Yes, yes, it was that line in particular that made me finally settle on Cleese; I hadn't really cast Bradshaw while reading Lost in a Good Book, but that scene just settled it. Also a shame that Hugh Fraser, a truly gifted and often forgotten comic actor gets what amounts to only an extended cameo as Perkins, but he would be perfect (as you'll recall if you've seen him as Hastings on Poirot) and maybe I can bring him back in a more substantial role when I get around to casting the Jack Spratt books! Lot of repetition in these posts, but I'm having fun dragging out what are, I think, the quotes that are really definitive in my casting choices . . . like the Cleese/gorilla bit. -----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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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 11/7/06 7:31am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	John Cleese is just generally great. The sheer surreality of the whole "She's a gorilla" bit could have come straight out of a Pythons sketch in any case. Gotta love British humour. I'm waiting for Something Rotten . . . I want to see who Rogue picks to play Hamlet. I suspect that it would suit our dear casting director's taste for multiplicity to put one of the actors actually mentioned (Gielgud, Jacobi, Olivier et al) in the role. I'm guessing Branagh, but am open to left-field choices. Anyone except Mel Gibson, basically Also, on about my fifth reread of SR (it's the only Thursday Next book I actually own as opposed to having borrowed) I'm becoming more and more impressed with the choice of Sean Bean as Spike Stoker from way back whenever. That was a pick of genius, Rogue -----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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TheBoogieMan Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 11/7/06 7:02pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	I too am guessing Branagh.
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Gabri_Jade Title: Fan Fiction Archive Editor Emeritus Registered: Nov '02	Date Posted: 11/7/06 9:40pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	For the most part, I like the rest of the casting too (and the stuff I'm not sure about is because I don't know the actor well enough to judge), but John Cleese as Trafford Bradshaw is inspired. You're right, that "little subterfuge" scene clinches it. I can see it perfectly. -----signature----- Evil Twin of LadyPadme This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us! - Futurama All I can do is be me. Whoever that is. -Bob Dylan The Space Between Heartbeats - L/M AU vig http://boards.theforce.net/b/b1/28870280 !!11!1eleventy
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/9/06 11:49am Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Tom Courtenay (computer generated) as Billy Liar And that's not all. The Bellman has gassed himself! Really? But we were just talking to him! Oh, I meant Perkins had gassed himself. Hugh Grant as Vernham Deane All the punctuation has been stolen from the final chapter of Ulysses. Probably about five hundred assorted full stops, commas, apostrophes and colons . . . To take so much punctuation in one hit initially sounds audacious, but perhaps the thief thought no one would notice . . . you will recall the theft of chapter sixty-two from Moby Dick? Well this theft was noted, but initial reports show that readers are regarding the lack of punctuation as not a cataclysmic error but the mark of a great genius. So we've got some breathing space. Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane Cameo appearance. No dialogue. Emma Thompson as Beatrice - Kenneth Branagh as Benedict Would that the fountain of your mind clear again, that I might water an ass at it. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. -----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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NYCitygurl Title: Generally Out to Lunch Manager: SFFBC, C&G, NSWFF Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 11/9/06 2:07pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Yay for Kenneth and Emma!!! Those two did a really good job in the Much Ado About Nothing movie. -----signature----- "Not till the moon falls. Not till the world ends."
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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 11/9/06 2:46pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	Good, great, awesome, double awesome -----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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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 11/16/06 1:07pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	David Niven as Edgar Linton (computer generated) Oh, very well. My name is Edgar Linton, true owner of Thrushcross Grange, and I hate and despise Heathcliff because no matter what I do, my wife, Catherine, is still in love with him. Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff (computer generated) You and I will live again in a modern novel, without all these trappings of Victorian rectitude. I thought we could reside in a spy thriller somewhere, go shopping at Ikea and have a boxer puppy with one ear that goes down . . . Kate Winslet as Lola Vavoom Appears on magazine cover. No lines Cate Blanchett as Aornis Hades Mother's very upset with you. Why? Why do you think? You murdered Styx. . . . Mother was very upset about it and I think you should apologize. Pierce Brosnan as Acheron Hades Aornis? Little Aornis?! My goodness . . . last time I saw you, you were this high and and barely even started torturing animals. Talk about intertextuality; we have Winslet as Thursday telling Winslet as Mariane to never let Winslet as Lola Vavoom play her in a film . . . and of course, 'Lola Vavoom' has played 'Mariane' in a film . . . Not to mention that with Winslet as Marianne and Thompson as Beatrice, we know have both Eleanor and Marianne back in the Dashwood house . . . would that they were in a scene together . . . Fford intends these books as hymn to books; I've cast them so that they're also a hymn to movies. -----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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NYCitygurl Title: Generally Out to Lunch Manager: SFFBC, C&G, NSWFF Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 11/16/06 3:10pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	So, Rogue, by any chance do you like Kate Winslet? -----signature----- "Not till the moon falls. Not till the world ends."
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The_Face Title: Ex-Manager, now with more real butter flavor Registered: Feb '03	Date Posted: 11/17/06 5:33pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	My head hurts. Really that kind of thing seems quite Ffordian of you, Rogue. That was definitely the right Winslet pic for Vavoom. -----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: 11/17/06 6:15pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	NYCitygurl posted: So, Rogue, by any chance do you like Kate Winslet? If it were biologically possible, I would have her babies. As to the Ffordian casting, wait until Something Rotten; it gets even worse! -----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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JediNemesis Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 11/18/06 1:23pm Subject: RE: I Fell Into the Well of Lost Plots- Jasper Fforde Ffans
	I'm guessing Rogue will just have Winslet double as every female character in the book. Winslet as Thursday, Winslet as Granny Next, probably Winslet cameoing as Tuesday Next for good measure, Winslet as Cindy Stoker, Winslet as Mrs Stiggins, Winslet as Shirley and hell, probably Winslet as Melanie Bradshaw too Then we can have Winslet as Thursday telling Winslet as Cindy that it would be Winslet wiser if Cindy Winslet Winslet didn't Winslet go to work on Winslet morning Winslet spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam spam spam and spam -----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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