So you know how people picture different actors or models or even random dudes they know in the role of fictional heroes? Yeah. I would be shocked if anyone pictured any of these dudes as the heroes of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Especially fluttery Brad with his long long hair.
Rhage? Really?
And all of a sudden I feel the need to re-read Lover Unbound to see if I can somehow develop a crush on Vishous and forgo Zsadist.
You know, I could see Paul Walker as Rhage. But that’s it. The rest of them, especially Zsadist (WTF, Buffy guy?) and Ryan Reynolds for Vishous (the hell?) – are just not what I saw when I read the books.
um………..hella NO…and 5 more to go with it…geez, spike as Z???….teh no!
Hell, yeah! That was hilarious! And the hair on Brad Pitt. I’d forgotten it used to be like that. I love that whoever put this together was clearly trying to choose shots that showcased everyone’s characteristic emotions—Zsadist (Spike!) is Tortured, Phury is Troubled and Emo.
I started laughing hysterically when James Marsters (Spike) came on the screen, and haven’t quite stopped yet… oh, man.
I can literally hear the Brothers bitching that anyone would dare put their stories in a trailer with a Pink song. That sums up the fail of that clip right there. Meanwhile, I’m sorry Hugh, but this guy is Wrath:
http://j-fasulo.com/classes/f08/avis-140/Work/PRJ001/site/images/nathan.jpg
PS – This is an actual cartoon character, which I sadly saw before reading any of the books. Now he’s eternally cast in my head movie!
My skillz at teh interwebs sucks. Hope this works instead:
I was trying to figure out who the actor playing Butch was, but then the writing told me it was Colin Farrell. Thanks! And, wha?
*Sigh*
Wrath
*Sigh* Once more, with feeling.
Wrath
I suck.
Wrath? No. Rhage? No. Zsadist? WTF no. Butch? Um, sorta close, actually. Damn. V? Smoking hot RR, but no. Phury? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Gasp. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And props to Melissandre for mentioning that editing together a Brotherhood clip to a Pink song is unintentionally HILARIOUS.
Wow. I mean, I TOTALLY get the idea of casting a role in your head—I do it all the time. But with the possible exception of Colin Farrell’s Miami Vice role for Butch, and (HAHAHAHAHA) emo Brad Pitt for Phury (God, I hate Phury), none of this even remotely resonates with me.
Then again, if I had to mention at gunpoint who I had mentally cast in some of these roles, I’d likely get stoned off the interwebs, so….
None of the actors appeal to me at all, let alone visualizing them as the Brothers!
Hahahahahaha!!!! Smith Jerrod!!
Ah… thanks, I needed that.
This person didn’t read the same books I did. That’s all I have to say.
I haven’t read the books so have no opinion on which actor fits the role, but I have to say I found Jason Lewis (Rhage in the video) pretty intriguing. Heck, I just found him pretty. He’s the only one of the actors I didn’t recognize and haven’t seen before—who is he and what’s he been in? I may need to get out more.
Spike and Brad Pitt as the twins? Really?? I know they don’t really look alike, what with the scars and everything, but in the immortal words of GOB Bluth, “COME ON!!”
Spam word “various92.” Indeed.
Has everyone forgotten that these guys are supposed to be HUGE, like cartoonishly huge? Like the Pink song, but come on that was a big bunch of Pansies with the wrong color hair. Had to stop watching it when they got to Butch. Colin Farrell is like 5’6” people. Come on. Brad Pitt weighs 2 pounds and Hugh Jackman has the proper intensity and is tall, but weighs 2 and 1/2 lbs. If they were going to use real people to represent those guys, they would have to come from MMA. You know with real musculature and some tatoos and scarring.
OMG, closetcrafter, I would now KILL to see someone redo this video with pro wrestlers and death metal.
Or, yanno, rap, since the Brotherhood are the whitest black brothers out there. Sigh.
Goes to look for images of wrestlers…and Oh my…I maybe they are all /NOT/ steroid pumped up men. These muscles actually look natural. And that one already has the black work Tattoo…hum..
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xQB6vjCswXQ/RshxHQOwTaI/AAAAAAAAABE/KuB5vqwN9nk/s1600/5116064[1].jpg
Lol, Melissandre that picture of Wrath is totally Peter Steele from the band Type O Negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Steele
I could say something relatively erudite and profound about the subjective nature of reading and how each reader interacts with the material in a closed system of engagement that is highly dependent on their idiosyncrasies, psychological landscape and cultural environs.
Instead, I’ll say: guh?
i have ALWAYS thought a young pre-strung out peter steele was a ringer for wrath…again…PRE-strungout.. he even did a layout for playgirl waaaaay back ….in his prime
I don’t think any of those guys were big enough to qualify as one of the Brothers but my mind easily dismissed the whole premise and proceeded to enjoy the clip anyway.
Ohhh, pretty.
I’ve never read the black dagger brotherhood but I think Hugh Jackman could play most any romance novel hero. also, that was a great video, it makes me really want to read the books and the characters have distinctive enough personalities that they don’t look like repeats of each other. plus, any character who could be played by brooding tortured spike looks interesting enough for me. 🙂
Susan: Jason Lewis played a regular character on Sex and the City – he was in the movie as well. See Absolute Hunk
I think he might be a good Rhage. All the other casting choices were whack.
I’ve never come up with a good choice for my boy V.
Love the music!!! Death92 seems appropo!
Apropro!
I haven’t read any of the books and no plans to, but I have to say I had never seen Ryan Reynolds before and yum, eye candy! 🙂
I didn’t recognize Jackman with the long hair. Farrell is nice to look at if one can forget that he’s like … short.
I’ve always thought of them as WWE types, sitting on normal furniture and breaking it etc. Not the sort of people you’d want to have around the hhouse.
(hot85. Yeah)
Or Dolph Lundgren/Arnold Swarzenegger during their heydays. None of these pretty boys.
Um – aren’t two of those brothers supposed to be twins? Like, really look alike twins?
Nice thought and liked the song, but bigger, we need bigger for the Brothers. Way bigger.
As the wife of a short man, I have to say that there’s nothing wrong with a not-tall guy. (And I get particularly riled when, in books and films, the villain is often a shorter man who is ridiculed for daring to presume he’s as viable as the taller hero.)
Maybe it’s because I’m 5’, but this oversized alpha males are not appealing to me at all. I like my men man-sized, not mountainous. 🙂
Having only read the first in the Black Dagger series, I have to say Hugh Jackman as Wrath *almost* worked for me. I was really interested to see who Zsadist would end up as and when Spike came on screen…yeah, not so much. Ah well…now let’s see if the character descriptions in the books can overcome this trailer when I get to reading the whole series…hopefully before I go home from Iraq!
I can sorta kinda see Colin Farrell as Butch, sorta – but the others – nah. The others need to be much BIGGER and MEANER looking, at the very least… oh well, diff’rent stokes…
Zoe, my experience is rather different. Every short guy that I have ever met has had what I call the ‘Napoleon complex’. And unfortunately, if you look in history, a lot of the real life villains have been short men that tried to overcome their inferiority complex by tyranny over the masses.
Does that mean that every short guy is badly adjusted? Probably not, but I just haven’t come across any that weren’t.
Just curious, GrowlyCub, were these men acting unnecessarily aggressive, or is it that they were as outspoken as taller men, but it seemed disproportionate in conjunction with their height?
This interests me, because most of the men in my life, including my father, stepfather, brother, husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law are all what would be deemed short, and none of them have ever seemed to me to be excessively aggressive. They’re just men, with all the facets of personality that any man has. Now, I can’t say that none of them feel the effects of prejudice against them being short. It definitely impacts them when the world sees them as less viable men simply because of their height, but it hasn’t made them into meglomaniacal assholes.
I understand the function of having tall heroes in romance novels. These men are hypermasculine, and need to function as idealizations of masculinity, which translates generally in our culture as being at least six feet tall. But I can’t get behind a bias against shorter men in real life when all around me I have evidence of warm, loving, protective men who are less than 5’7”.
Sorry—this is one of my hot-button topics because it is something that I face daily, and so I felt compelled to give my opinion on the viability of and prejudice against shorter men. Don’t rule them out!
/end soapbox
re: Jason Lewis
I definitely need to get out more, or at least rent the Sex and the City DVDs.
As I said, since I haven’t read the books I have no opinion on whether the specific actors fit the specific roles. I know that the vast majority of romance novel heroes are XXL, and it seems that the BDB are even bigger. But I must agree with Zoe Archer that in Real Life not all short men have Napoleon complexes. My husband and sons are short but they are also very smart, funny, perceptive, and self-assured. My oldest and youngest both work out and have bodies any man would envy and any woman would like to get her hands on. Would they like to be taller? Yes. Do they feel they have to overcompensate for lack of height? Not so much. And it’s not just that I’m biased toward these men I love. I work with three men who are 6’5” who are great, but I also work with a number of men who aren’t much taller than my own 5’2”, and they’re great too.
Zoe,
I don’t think I’d necessarily say they were all aggressive, although two of them ended up with convictions for domestic violence (these were not boyfriends/husbands of mine, but of family members and friends and a couple were bosses).
Most of the ones that come immediately to mind were verbally abusive, manipulative and a couple were outright snake charmers who were able to complete destroy their partner’s self-worth by constantly belittling them and even worse do the same to their kids. All of them were liars, but a few were so ‘charming’ that their abuse was not easily discernible for most people.
The bosses would try to profile themselves on the backs of their employees, meaning they’d present ideas by the team as their own to superiors, and put blame for their own mistakes onto people on the lower rungs.
Like I said I’m sure there are wonderful short guys out there but from my personal sample, I’d have to say thank you, but no thank you.
(Caveat, I’ve naturally seen such behavior not only by short guys, and I readily believe that my sample does not represent all short men, but every single short guy that came to my notice over the last 38 years had some issues; whether they all had to do with their height is naturally open to discussion, but that’s what they all had in common and more often than not it seemed they were operating from a deep seated feeling of inferiority.)
I just like watching this one.