Hello guys, its BruceWillis again. I had never written an editorial before last Friday, and I would have never expected such a negative response to my last one. God, some guy even wrote a whole (really well written) article against it. I consider myself a rational man, I am not a fanboy, I enjoy most movies (both DC and Marvel), and I am really looking forward to the DCEU. I don’t think its cast will suck or anything, I just don’t think it is irrelevant who you cast “as long as the personality is still there.” I just don’t want Momoa and Eisenberg play a whiny teenager and a savage warmonger, respectively. Err.. I mean, the other way round (that image was hilarious though). NOTE THAT I AM KIDDING HERE. It is cool that Aquaman will be a badass and that Luthor will be umm.. intelligent? But, again, as people don’t seem to understand, my article was about the looks, specifically.
Well, I’m just going to go to the point here, which is debunking some of the arguments that were made.
The Director’s Vision
Many have argued that making Lex Luthor accurate would be chaining the director and impeding him of being creative. Tell me your favourite cbms and ask yourselves if they changed the character’s look in significant ways. Again, I do not want some director’s version of the characters, I just want the official version that we all know.
I understand that the look is not always translatable to live action
But Barry Allen’s face is kind of f*cking translatable to live action! It shouldn’t be too hard! Actually, there was an entire (apparently unnoticed) subtitle in my first article about this. Where i specifically say i understand this.
MANY people argued that “I shouldn’t judge” and that “they’ll be great” but.. god, is it really THAT hard to understand that my article was about the looks?? I do not care if Leonardo Dicaprio can pull off a good Mole Man, he just doesn’t look the part! The
debate should be about why looks matter or don’t matter. Moreover, I am 99% sure we all already know how Eisenberg and Momoa are going to play their respective parts.
I hate being the pessimistic guy
I hate people who nitpick or who trash whole movies based on single mistakes, I just try to be objective and say things as they are. I understand that most people will just trash this article again and disagree. This probably means that I am wrong but I just can’t see why so I am going to continue writing.
The Essence of the character
This is the single argument that actually didn’t sound irrational to me. Every character has an essence, and in the end that essence is the only thing that needs to be kept. Its true, characters constantly change in the comics, there are alternate realities and alternate timelines and there are always some key concepts that can never be missing.
It is fun to see other versions of them and other takes.
However, for the most iconic characters, there is always an “official” version, the version millions of kids grew up with. These versions of the characters are the ones that I’ve dreamt of seeing in real life. They have an “assigned” face, an “assigned” body size and an “assigned” costume. I just feel like if this is changed, it is just not the character that I grew up with, the man/woman that I grew up with, it is a different man/woman, a stranger.
I want to dare anyone who disagrees to say you would be ok with seeing a blond superman.
Why I think most of you disagree
First of all, it is obviously connected with how much you are attached with the character. I didn’t care about Quicksilver in DOFP as much I do about Flash. I am probably a bit obsessive about this characters haha I know. Secondly, you just like this “other versions” of the characters. I feel like Snyder just said “it would be cool to see a Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network kind of Lex Luthor” and just went for it. (I admit he may be a cool villain, I just feel he wouldn’t be the Luthor from the comics, who is more of a Walter White type). So, Eisenberg will make a cool villain, Momoa will make a cool underwater Dothraki and Miller will probably make a cool character too. And finally, I think everybody just wants the DCEU to succeed, myself included. I think that Snyder will make it visually outstanding, we all like the characters and hope they do great. I just think it could have been better, but lets agree to disagree.