Shriek!! Otto Chriek!

[yakalskovich]

I was unhappy about the Oscars. I wanted Jack Sparrow to win, dammit!

But I had a pleasant surprise when the Best Actress trophy was presented - suddenly, there was Otto Chriek on my TV screen! As in ottochriek !!

It's customary to use some actor on the character icons on discworld_rpg, but I had no idea before who that charming gawky fellow on the icon for Otto was.

Turned out he's called Adrien Brody.

And is he ever Otto!! Tall and skinny, with a large nose and a big smile, slightly hyper and ever so enthusiastic. And that thing with the breath freshener was priceless. Our icons fit the characters rather well in most cases, but this Adrien Brody is Otto all the way; nobody else must be allowed to play Otto if there is ever any Discworld movie, which isn't very likely at the moment. I'd cast Alan Rickman as Havelock Vetinari (the Nazgul has a picture where he looks totally like the Patrician, minus a beard); otherwise, I have no preferences. Thank you, universe; you can go to work now and bring it all about...

In other news, I have figmented off again and am now playing pteppicymon as well in the discworld_rpg. I must be mad; now I can metapost all over the place if I get muddled. Vee (ponderstibbons) kindly explained to me what metaposting is.-

I bought the DVD of "The Thin Red Line" entirely because it has Adrien Brody in it and I want to see more of him; "The Pianist" is still too expensive. I'll see whether Falk the Metropolitan has it first. And I bought a CD everyone owns, as a rule, but I had given my copy away seven years ago. I didn't realise how much I missed Kurt Cobain singing "Lake of Fire"...

Comments

[yakalskovich]

Huh. I don't find Adrien Brody conventionally good-looking either, while Max Schreck (Nosferatu) is actively ugly, and people would get frightened looking at him for the first time, twinkle and cocoa or no.

I'll have to look up Ian Richardson and "House of Cards" on IMDB, but I find Alan Rickman is quite old. :::ducking from the hurled objects, as I know you like Snape a lot:: At least he was when I got to see him in London two years ago. And Terry Pratchett himself said he might imagine Vetinari looking like AR:
http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/sourcery.html#p7569

And there's a drawing of him by Paul Kidby, too:


Of course, everybody visualises characters from a book quite differently. And as you mention the voice of that other fellow, I'll make sure to have a look or rather listen - Falk the Metropolitan might have that movie. He has most movies one can think of, somehow.