LitWit Challenge: Cast yourself!
In this week’s LitWit Challenge we’re giving away a couple of titles in our beloved Tintin series by Herge: The Castafiore Emerald, and Tintin in Tibet.
Like many of our favorite characters, Tintin will be incarnated on the big screen. Last time I checked, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson were slated to direct, and the cast reportedly includes Daniel Craig as Red Rackham, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock (or was it Snowy?), and Jamie Bell as the intrepid boy reporter Tintin. Which brings us to this week’s LitWit Challenge.
Your life is about to be made into a big-budget biopic with an all-star international cast. The question is: Which big-name actor will play you? Why? (My answer would be Christina Ricci in her Addams Family phase, for the airstrip forehead.)
Resemblance to harsh reality: not a problem! Just make the case for your casting choice in 300 words or less, and post your entry in Comments by 11.59 pm on Friday the 13th of November, 2009.
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November 8th, 2009 at 09:51
Not an entry. I just can’t, for the life of me, bring myself to pronounce Tintin as tahng-tahng even in my brain.
November 10th, 2009 at 17:49
Meryl Streep since she can do no wrong. Heck, she even made Mama Mia bearable. So, I’m sure she won’t have trouble playing a 20 year old Filipina.
November 10th, 2009 at 21:24
Sacha Baron Cohen: if anyone can play a circus midget/roulette knife thrower/pink flying elephant trainer trapped in in lanky 6-foot frame body, that’ll be him.
They can also pitch in Jack Black as the inner midget, and Will Ferrel and Rob Schneider as the dual consciences.
November 10th, 2009 at 21:38
Kate Winslet. Not only is she considered as one of the better actors, but I also have a striking resemblance with her. As my life story involves romantic entanglements and ‘dangerous liaisons’ I envisage that the movie will feature realistic love scenes and heavy drama, I know she would do justice to the role. Kate is able to deliver terrific performances even if the role requires her to bare skin.
November 11th, 2009 at 09:00
None other than myself, it’s big budgeted anyway so I might as well cast myself and be famous or infamous, who cares! Brad Pitt is not really an exquisite choice. If not, I would have wanted Papa Piolo. I can’t think of any reason except that I love him so much and who wouldn’t want to be portrayed as lovely as this guy?
Will this get my hands already on the gorgeous TinTin copy??? thank you in advance :-)
November 11th, 2009 at 09:37
In the event that my life becomes interesting (heh) in the next decade or so, I’m already drafting Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (of Fame, Hannah Montana, and various other Disney productions – not to mention, Sylvia La Torre’s granddaughter) to play yours truly. She’s already being typecast as the spoiled, hyperactive Asian girl in many teen movies, so it wouldn’t be much of a a stretch for her to play a hyperactive, well-traveled Pinay with a shameless addiction to karaoke. Granted, she’s not exactly Meryl Streep, and she will really need to work on her Tagalog… but that can be easily cured with a dialect coach and some Method-style immersion, which will inevitably include palengke shopping and watching back-to-back airings of noontime shows.
I’m already envisioning the movie as a comedy; the script can be summed up as “Adaptation meets Kakabakaba Ka Ba?” Leading man/ love interest na lang ang kulang, although I can totally imagine Aga Muhlach as himself in a fantasy sequence.
November 11th, 2009 at 14:17
That’s a very interesting question, Ms. Zafra, and I do believe that as a homosexual…
Rustom Padilla would have been too parlor-esque, too trying hard, and altogether too redundant. I would love to have Pink play me because she projects the right kind of punk, but she’s too short, and she’s got breasts. I will never cast Eric Quizon to play me because he’s far too closeted for my taste. Maybe the gay icon Melanie Marquez for the long legged legs?
I want to be played by Eddie Gil, because the thought of him in drag is just way too funny for words. I don’t cross dress or wear make up, but I will make him. And all his lines will start with “BAKLAH KAH!” Or “MGA BAKLAH KAYOH!”
He will be speech trained by my friends for modulation and pronunciation.
November 12th, 2009 at 09:31
Winona Ryder, for her (once) pixie haircut and her penchant for getting into trouble.
November 13th, 2009 at 14:26
Zooey Deschanel because she’s awkward and I’m awkward.
November 13th, 2009 at 23:42
I am a reserved person and communicate with looks and expressions a good part of the time and I can be quite brooding too. You can depend on me though to say the one-liner at the right time in the story. But still my biopic may still be an imposition on other people’s attention span. An MMK exaggeration of my biopic is not an option, so casting is crucial in justifying my biopic for the consumption of other people; even a Lav Diaz film is made to be seen. I am picking Colin Firth, because he does brooding well, or Matthew McFadyen who played Darcy in the recent version of “Pride and Prejudice.†Wait, they’ve both played Darcy. They are brooding but charming. I don’t want to come off as a Heathcliff. So there…
November 16th, 2009 at 07:19
Jean-Pierre Léaud circa 1960s. Or Louis Garrel.
I’d like to think my life is like The Dreamers by Bertolucci or a Godard film, where the leads are très hot.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:58
I’d cast none other than the Edward Norton to play me! The wide range of roles he has played, from Primal Fear, American History X (my fave), Fight Club, all the way to Keeping the Faith (where he was a priest!) have prepared him to tackle the many personalities that make me up.
Besides, nobody can brood like he does!
November 16th, 2009 at 19:36
I’d be Judd Nelson. Not many actors nowadays know the fine art of nostril-flaring. Flared nostrils can mean anger, surprise, jealousy, eureka moment,… almost the whole lot of powerful feelings. Can be used even for the unintended comic relief. Never fails to rouse the audience!
I cant flare my nostril; was a frustration since kindergarten, so in my biopic, I want to be able to do it. And Judd Nelson has giant nostrils at his disposal.
I saw Breakfast Club just last week. What a demo by Judd of his prowess in utilizing this acting technique. Even Peter Jackson for sure would be interested to direct him at some time. (King Kong) What a unique alternative/equivalent to Nicholson’s eyebrows.
November 17th, 2009 at 06:08
Colin Farrell, although the only semblance we have are our eyebrows. I don’t require much acting anyway. All he needs to do is play me playing with myself. That would be the next best thing to me having sex with him in reality. There’s some sort of “The Gaze” element in it.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:14
I want Matthew Broderick to play me. Matthew of 1986. Ferris Bueller. I’m smug and acidic enough. I’ll need Matthew’s charm to make the audience root for me. I want Matthew to talk to the camera, too, like he did in Bueller. There’s just too much to say and be opinionated about.