[FILM] Red Sonja Adaptation to Star Hannah John-Kamen

[Egomaniac]

They also had to do a lot of work to make him appear much shorter. He wasn’t playing a 6’3” Wolverine.

They didn't do anything to make him appear shorter:

[Polyxo]

They also had to do a lot of work to make him appear much shorter. He wasn’t playing a 6’3” Wolverine.

Gwendolyn Christie was desirable as Brienne because she could handle the acting required without any of the inconvenience of making her appear taller than she was.

Sonja doesn’t really need to be tall. It’s not an essential element of the character. Hannah John-Kamen we already know can do the lady badass bit.

Did they? I remember a lot of shots seemingly making him look very physically imposing and large, seemingly purposefully. Like the silhouette shot in "The Wolverine" where he kills the guy after getting stabbed with the sword.

Gwendoline Christie was fine, because yeah, she wore armor, and her physical acting was excellent. She really went all in with the physical combat, even if she didn't have the muscle mass to make it always count (behind the scenes).

[Witchblade77]

Brie Larson has the physique and acting ability.

..that chainmail "armor" is useful as a distraction in a world of barbarian men.

you can distract barbarian men just as well while wearing a regular cloth, or maybe lined leather bikini ala the ones pictured in ancient frescos. the only person chainmail bikini is distracting is the person wearing it. those things chafe, catch on anything and everything and are just generally uncomfortable as heck in every way possible.

[Ivanstone]

They didn't do anything to make him appear shorter:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh...ugh_with_X-Men

“Jackman, at 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[34][35] stands 30 cm taller than Wolverine, who is said in the original comic book to be 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m).[36] Hence, the filmmakers were frequently forced to shoot Jackman at unusual angles or only from the waist up to make him appear shorter than he actually is, and his co-stars wore platform soles. Jackman was also required to add a great deal of muscle for the role, and in preparing for the fourth film in the series, he bench-pressed over 136 kg (300 lb).[37]“

Hugh Jackman is also taller than James Marsden.

[Egomaniac]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh...ugh_with_X-Men

“Jackman, at 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[34][35] stands 30 cm taller than Wolverine, who is said in the original comic book to be 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m).[36] Hence, the filmmakers were frequently forced to shoot Jackman at unusual angles or only from the waist up to make him appear shorter than he actually is, and his co-stars wore platform soles. Jackman was also required to add a great deal of muscle for the role, and in preparing for the fourth film in the series, he bench-pressed over 136 kg (300 lb).[37]“

Whatever they said they did...they didn't actually do a good job of it...because Jackman is consistently one of the tallest people on screen.

I just showed photographic evidence...not just with Marsden...but with Liev Schreiber (who is actually just a little bit Taller than Jackman)

You want more?





Halle Berry is 5'5 Jackman is towering over her. In the Comics it would be the opposite...Storm is 5'11 and Wolverine is 5'3.

here's another:



Anna Paquin is 5'4. Tell me again what painstaking efforts they went through to make Jackman look shorter when Wolverine is a full head taller than Rogue.

Hugh Jackman is also taller than James Marsden.

Yeah, and Wolverine in that shot is taller than Cyclops....(Cyclops was entering the scene by coming down stairs...)

[ohiostate124]

This has flop written all over it.

[Shadowferal]

Just because; in the pic below, Storm is 5' 11"

[Egomaniac]

Just because; in the pic below, Storm is 5' 11"

Yep. In order for them to look each other in the eye...he has to look up, she has to look down.

The same can be said for pretty much any X-man when paired with Wolverine. The only time Wolverine should look Tall is when he's standing next to Puck...and only if there's no one else around:

[Polyxo]

you can distract barbarian men just as well while wearing a regular cloth, or maybe lined leather bikini ala the ones pictured in ancient frescos. the only person chainmail bikini is distracting is the person wearing it. those things chafe, catch on anything and everything and are just generally uncomfortable as heck in every way possible.

Yeah, I would agree that they should not do an actual CHAINMAIL bikini or whatever. That's a really terrible, absurd idea. An equally revealing loincloth or leather or cloth bikini or whatever is fine. Gauls and Germanians and Galatians and other cultures from antiquity would fight naked or close to it to show off how awesome and unconcerned they were.

[Endus]

Yeah, I would agree that they should not do an actual CHAINMAIL bikini or whatever. That's a really terrible, absurd idea. An equally revealing loincloth or leather or cloth bikini or whatever is fine. Gauls and Germanians and Galatians and other cultures from antiquity would fight naked or close to it to show off how awesome and unconcerned they were.

Celts would paint themselves blue and come screaming over the hills in packs, to fight the Romans. The Romans, in their carefully-managed ranks, would generally get their ASSES UTTERLY KICKED, since the Celts were a culture that had "brawling" as one of the most common sports. It terrified the Romans so much they're one of the few "barbarian" tribes that the Romans just went "Nope, nope, nopenopenope" and built a big goddamned wall across the entire country to keep them the fuck away from Roman territory, since conquering was just not gonna happen.

And that's why Hadrian's Wall exists. Which literally ran shore to shore across the north of England.

[OokOok]

What a surprise another white character hit by the 2021 era of SJW/BLM/PC/Narative of putting people in roles they don't fit just for the sake of hitting a racial quota

Trying to derail threads with forbidden topics isn't allowed. Infracted.

[Polyxo]

Celts would paint themselves blue and come screaming over the hills in packs, to fight the Romans. The Romans, in their carefully-managed ranks, would generally get their ASSES UTTERLY KICKED, since the Celts were a culture that had "brawling" as one of the most common sports. It terrified the Romans so much they're one of the few "barbarian" tribes that the Romans just went "Nope, nope, nopenopenope" and built a big goddamned wall across the entire country to keep them the fuck away from Roman territory, since conquering was just not gonna happen.

And that's why Hadrian's Wall exists. Which literally ran shore to shore across the north of England.

There's a pretty huge difference in physical size between some of the Gallic and Germanic tribes, and the average Roman too. The ones that especially scared the Romans were like Picts and Caledonians, and then like the Suebi in Germania, and they were apparently both huge, and freaky when it came to battle/post battle practices.

[uuuhname]

boy, what a dumpster fire of a thread. people with internet access really pretending to be upset they didn't cast a porn actress to ogle at.

[Nynax]

The whole "get woke, go broke" thing is basically just an empty conspiracy theory.

At best, shitty content doesn't find an audience. Most of the allegations of "going woke" when applied to content that is considered "good" according to critic reviews, however, there is no "going broke" in the first place.

The whole stupid hashtag revolves around trying to pretend that bad movies failed because of social justice messaging, rather than just by virtue of being bad movies. And they have to stick their fingers in their ears to avoid having to explain why plenty of "woke" films break the bank on a regular basis, completely refuting the central claim.

The argument is that the movie is bad because the screenwriters are so focused on virtue signaling and "sending a message" they kinda forget there's supposed to be a plot. The "wokeness" is intentionally in your face, in case you might miss it.

A good "woke" film simply won't feel like a woke film because it doesn't do that. In fact, I'd argue that the only thing that would make them woke is the subject matter, but otherwise isn't presented as such. Instead simply presenting a believable reality as just is, from a perspective that is unique. A (probably bad) example might be Wonder Woman being considered a movie about female empowerment, but the focus wasn't on her being a woman, the focus was on her training, culture, and heritage conflicting with a WW2 reality (classic hero's journey arch). A bad, "woke" Wonder Woman movie would have spent a lot of time going "Ugh. MEN, am I right?" Which I believe is what happened to that Batwoman TV Show, although I never watched it.

We should also probably clarify that "get woke, go broke" only really applies to subject matter and source material that is intentionally altered to be more PC. The phrase does not apply to net-new film creations with stories that have no other history or fanbase applied to them.

[Egomaniac]

We should also probably clarify that "get woke, go broke" only really applies to subject matter and source material that is intentionally altered to be more PC. The phrase does not apply to net-new film creations with stories that have no other history or fanbase applied to them.

People here were saying "Get Woke, Go broke" about Captain Marvel...which was a Billion dollar film...

[Faltemer]

Most of the new posts are borderline off topic (Or full on attempts to derail this) so I am closing this. Maybe closer to release we can have a new thread that actually contains discussion about the topic.