Mis castings

I have always been in awe of holly wood movies. The quality of the hollywood movies are unmatchable. Most of the scripts are original and are not duplicated. Stories are genuine and interesting. Even the art movies have the power to capture the imagination of the audience which is great. Most of the indian movies are adaptations of hollywood movies and lack of exposure to holly wood is often exploited by the indian film makers.

Everything is nice about holly wood the script, music, action sequences, plots, graphics. But one thing they lack these days is that the type of actors that are casted in the movies these days. holly wood means perfection in lots of sense. but sometimes it lacks good casting. for example the recently released robin hood had Russel crowe in the lead. He looked like a robin hood who is about to retire from robbery. he was such a huge miscast. No offence to russel crowe but this kind of favourism is doing no favour to holly wood. Russel crowe is the favourite actor of director ridley scott. but this movie looked like a sequel to the gladiator and was a dark movie. I am sure nobody enjoyed it watching it in the theatre. But the robinhood starring kevin costner which was released in 1991 seemed to be a much better film compared to the latest version. There was so much fun, adventure and frolic involved in that movie which was badly missing in this one.

Another example is the recently released predators starring Adrien Brody. Brody who is considered as an intense actor and an actor with immense talent. No wonders he has won the oscars. But i think he has done a blunder by acting in an action movie like the predators. Every movie if it is a sequel will always be compared to its original. like wise its certain that the audience will compare brody to schwarzenegger who had epitomised the earlier lead character in the first version of the predators. critics even complaint that how can adrien brody who hardly fits into the biceps of Arnold could take up such a role. was there any need to damage the reputation of his acting skills?...An action hero like jason statham could have done much better. But before blaming these actors lets blame the directors who chose these actors because these are total miscasts. I hope holly wood won t go astray over casting suitable actors to fit into the plot of the movies.