movie rec and movie dream
Jul. 30th, 2012 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraHow To Train Your Dragon is made of rainbows. I guess that is useless as a review but, seriously, I didn't know much about it going into it, and it turned out to be full of things I love, and I recommend it highly.
Also last night I dreamed that they had made a Vorkosigan movie and I was watching it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kelilah and it was a big secret who was going to be playing Miles and it turned out to be Robert Downey Jr. Which... is actually pretty good casting, for something I came up with in my sleep; we know from Holmes and Tony Stark that he can play manic-genius. Of course he's much too old unless it was a Cryoburn movie. (It wasn't recognizably any of the books at all, in my dream; there was a murder mystery, but it was rather muddled, and kept switching between being a movie I was watching, a movie being filmed in which I was an actor, a sort of playable video game or possibly a LARP, and actually being happening. Level-of-reality confusion is a common feature of my more interesting dreams. Right before I woke up we got a look at who was playing Ekaterin and thought she wasn't the right type at all.) I don't actually know young actors well enough to know who I would want to cast in a Vorkosigan movie - I think ideally I'd want an actor with a visible disability, like reduced stature or facial differences or something. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't have exactly Miles' disabilities and they'd still need special effects or prosthetic costuming or whatever, but it just seems like a role that should go to a disabled actor if possible. (Huh, and now I'm curious about whether Richard the Third has ever been played in a major production by a visibly disabled actor...)
Also last night I dreamed that they had made a Vorkosigan movie and I was watching it with
kelilah and it was a big secret who was going to be playing Miles and it turned out to be Robert Downey Jr. Which... is actually pretty good casting, for something I came up with in my sleep; we know from Holmes and Tony Stark that he can play manic-genius. Of course he's much too old unless it was a Cryoburn movie. (It wasn't recognizably any of the books at all, in my dream; there was a murder mystery, but it was rather muddled, and kept switching between being a movie I was watching, a movie being filmed in which I was an actor, a sort of playable video game or possibly a LARP, and actually being happening. Level-of-reality confusion is a common feature of my more interesting dreams. Right before I woke up we got a look at who was playing Ekaterin and thought she wasn't the right type at all.) I don't actually know young actors well enough to know who I would want to cast in a Vorkosigan movie - I think ideally I'd want an actor with a visible disability, like reduced stature or facial differences or something. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't have exactly Miles' disabilities and they'd still need special effects or prosthetic costuming or whatever, but it just seems like a role that should go to a disabled actor if possible. (Huh, and now I'm curious about whether Richard the Third has ever been played in a major production by a visibly disabled actor...)
