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He is quiet an interesting character.
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Get your first look at Henry Cavill in The Witcher!
From hereNetflix also announced the casting for a number of The Witcher’s key characters. Twin Peaks’ Eamon Farren joins as intelligence officer Cahir, Knightfall’s Joey Batey will play Jaskier the bard, House of Cards’ Lars Mikkelsen is Stregobor the Kovirian wizard Stregobor. Anna Shaffer is also set to play sorceress Triss.
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If there's one thing Dandelion is not, it's quiet
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Blech. Nothing against Cavill, but that just feels completely...wrong.
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Likely because of how you have him pictured from the video games. But from the book? He hates beards! He just needs some scars.
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If you wanted him from the books, you'd also need to give him a runner's build instead of a bodybuilder's.
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Yeah, it's hard to say with the lighting and armor, but hopefully Cavil didn't "bulk up" to play Geralt. So much unknown, but I do kinda like this reveal.
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Yeah, nothing against Cavill, but really not impressed with how he looks in the role. He doesn't look gruff enough. He looks too much like he just stepped out of a makeup trailer in some low-rent effort at cosplay. The more and more I hear about it, the more I just wish they'd take the time to do it right rather than rush into it. This is just frustrating to see.
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Was Christopher Lambert not available?
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A lot of my issues with this is my own bias, I will admit. He's been Superman for quite a few years. Now all I can see is "Superman with a mustache" or "Superman with a wig" when I see him in a movie. Now I can add "Superman as Storm from the X-Men films" to the list.
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I don't look at this as anything other than a basic test of the costume and look. I don't take it to be a final representation of the character in the show.
What I do think will make or break the portrayal is his voice and whether or not he can sound gruff and irritated. The voice actor for the video games is perfect.
What I do think will make or break the portrayal is his voice and whether or not he can sound gruff and irritated. The voice actor for the video games is perfect.
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I think they were going to add those in with CGI to avoid causing skin irritation that might violate his other movie contracts, which specify he may have no blemishes.
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Except that the way they've worded it and revealed it " 'first look' at Henry Cavill 'in The Witcher' ". Seems pretty definite on the look to me.
Edit: Ok, so apparently there's a screen test that was posted to Twitter where you can see him in motion and which is where that shot came from, and it looks much better in motion. Still not perfect, but a screen test is never indicative of final quality. Just wish they'd mentioned that in the shot.
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You mean like on the slate where it says costume and makeup test?
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I didn't see that anywhere in the thread.
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Actually I like the look. I like Henry. I was a bit worried on his look yes but it seems to have been for nothing. Now do I think he can do the game voice. No. But may be wrong. The look is good though. Sorta like a big buff LegolasPrediction: When he wakes up, Daehawk angry.
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I thought you were going to be angry about Triss.
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Ive not looked yet.
EDIT: Well going to be hard making her into a pale redhead.
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Mr. Fed, giving us the Witcher we deserve:
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DVR that.
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Fair enough. If you click on the tweet video, it's the first image.
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Yeah, I sadly realized that after I made my comments. I guess it wasn't immediately obvious to me that you could click on it.
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Coming Q4 2019, via Variety:
Netflix new live-action series based on “The Witcher” will launch in the company’s fourth quarter, which runs from October to December, the company’s chief content officer noted in an earnings call this week.
Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos was responding to a question about Neflix 2019 line-up when he brought up the timing for the show, which is based on a series of books made internationally popular through successful video game adaptations.
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I just have one problem with the whole shebang. The books, the games, the show.
A man is not a witch, and a man cannot be a witcher. It totally breaks it for me.
And the entre setup seems so cliche.
broody white guy with scar uses magic and swords and potions and everything and is a rugged loner and gets the girls and rides off into the sunset and saves the world and quips that the world maybe is better off without being saved.
Is there anything in the Witcher that is an original idea and not a cliche?
A man is not a witch, and a man cannot be a witcher. It totally breaks it for me.
And the entre setup seems so cliche.
broody white guy with scar uses magic and swords and potions and everything and is a rugged loner and gets the girls and rides off into the sunset and saves the world and quips that the world maybe is better off without being saved.
Is there anything in the Witcher that is an original idea and not a cliche?
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Have you played the games? The setup isn't anything super special. What makes the games at least (can't speak to the books) is that the writing within that setup is pretty spectacular. The nominal "monsters" are a pretty varied bunch with different personalities / backgrounds, and are not all evil or beasts or the like (it's not unusual to be sent out on a mission to kill some creature, only to find that the creature is unobjectionable and the quest-giver is the problem). It's also written with a lot of moral grey spots where it's not clear (or is at least debatable) about which choice is the 'right' one (both practically and morally).Jaymon wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:14 pm I just have one problem with the whole shebang. The books, the games, the show.
A man is not a witch, and a man cannot be a witcher. It totally breaks it for me.
And the entre setup seems so cliche.
broody white guy with scar uses magic and swords and potions and everything and is a rugged loner and gets the girls and rides off into the sunset and saves the world and quips that the world maybe is better off without being saved.
Is there anything in the Witcher that is an original idea and not a cliche?
That's something that's going to be hard for the series to get right, I expect.
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Two responses. First:
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What? What's the basis of that? Bewitched? Witches in fantasy are fictional, and while they're often portrayed as female, there isn't some inherent restriction that they have to be.
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There is very little in anything that is not a cliche. It's what you do with that cliche, and how much you rely on it that matters.
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You are aware that the books were written in Polish, correct? From Wikipedia:
Just because in English we would likely use warlock for a male witch, that doesn't mean that other languages have to.Sapkowski chose wiedźmin as the male equivalent of the Polish word for witch (wiedźma).
The first story was written in the mid-80s. Are you so sure that at the time, and in Poland, the idea wasn't original?
That seems to be some pretty heavy bias you are carrying around there.
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And for what it's worth, in modern witchcraft religions, males are called witches. The word 'witch', in it's oldest forms, has always been gender-neutral in English. 'Warlock' is used to mean 'oath-breaker' (it's most likely orign) and refers to someone (male or female) who has been, essentially, banished for breaking their oaths.
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I didn't know any of that.Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:39 pm And for what it's worth, in modern witchcraft religions, males are called witches. The word 'witch', in it's oldest forms, has always been gender-neutral in English. 'Warlock' is used to mean 'oath-breaker' (it's most likely origin) and refers to someone (male or female) who has been, essentially, banished for breaking their oaths.
But I figured there was more to the story. Hence the use of "likely" - to represent the "common" understanding of the "masses". How's that for a lot of qualifications?
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I've always classified Witchers as in a different class entirely, seeing as they're monster hunters trying to do some good rather than anything with ill intent. Well, Geralt does anyway, not sure how different the other witcher schools are.
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Witchers don't necessarily try to do good. They try to make money. They took an oath to that effect.
Although Geralt tends to push the line on that a little.
Although Geralt tends to push the line on that a little.
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