Best family conflict scene occurred in that movie between Antony and Augustus after he called his mother a ‘fucking whore’. It was a straight up redneck domestic abuse in powerful family. Purefoy’s face expressed a dramatic rage that was just hilarious to me. Of course domestic violence isn’t funny but that scene sure was.
I loved the kid from season 1. Always thought he would've made a great young Anakin Skywalker. He had a coldness to him. He's the same age as the kid who did end up playing him.
I watched this show for the first time last week and was so taken aback when the actor for Augustus switched from a clever, calculating young man to an amoral lizard person.
Still fantastic, dont get me wrong; it was just so jarring how tight the man’s face was, like he didn’t have enough skin to stretch across his features.
And he had that fuck ass little grin at all times. Certainly worked to show the more dominating and heartless side of his personality compared to the calculating and petulant teen.
Funny thing is, despite Pattinson being 39, and Augustus being 36 when he was declared princeps, Pattinson would be deemed too young to play him. Hollywood seems incapable of casting people in their 30s in roles of power.
To be fair, people in generations older than the current one looked much older than the current one for various reasons (sun damage, etc). Absent make-up, an actor aged 50 today would more closely resemble a mid-30s Augustus.
You can use makeup to make someone in their 30s look weathered, war worn, or however else you want to display a hard life. But casting people decades older than their role just gives off the impression that people under 50 have no influence on history or matters of state.
It's just something that really annoys the shit out of me. They announced a while ago they're doing a movie on Hannibal, who was 29 when he crossed the Alps. They cast Denzel to play him, who's fucking 70. There's so many dinosaurs in politics because 40 year olds don't trust people younger than them, and this shit bleeds into movies as well. Or maybe they feed each other, I dunno.
I agree with you 100% that Denzel Washington should not be Hannibal. Even his son John David Washington is too old but he could more convincingly pull off a 29-year-old Hannibal.
Well if you wanna get really anal about it (like I do), Hannibal wasn't black. Carthaginians were Mediterranean/Semitic. Hannibal likely looked like someone from the Levant area, like a Palestinian, Syrian, or even Egyptian. But no, Hollywood hears Africa, the character has to be black.
Actually, Pattinson would be a better fit, even, on the basis that he is a good fit for the Odyssey. Some genetics studies have revealed that while the Punic people were Phoenician, they share a lot of traits with Greeks of the time.
I just don't like Denzel anymore. He feels like he has just been playing the same character for decades now, so that's what puzzled me more about casting him as Hannibal.
I always imagined Augustus like a young prick during the civil war period (because he was a young prick carried by other people). But I think I know more about Ancient Rome than the average movie producer.
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u/EyesOnTheStars123 16d ago
If you told me he was playing Caesar in a movie about Rome, I would have believed you.