Have you ever read a fictional book and when you look at the cover, you think, "That's not what the characters look like." Because in your head you have pictured them totally different? Maybe ask your own "Have you ever" question and leave it here for others to think about or answer
Yeah--when I read a book, I know exactly what the characters look like. When Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher in the first movie about Reacher---I just could not believe the author would consent to have a 5'7"guy play a 6'5"guy!! I refused to watch it!
In all his movies they always try to make him look taller with trick photography, now they probably use a lot of CGI too. There are lots of reasons to dislike him but for me his height isn't one of them, lol Although I can see your point with how he doesn't fit the character.
Yes - this is one of the most glaring differences between the book and the movie that I've seen in years. Reacher in the book was 6' 5", 250 lbs. of serious bad-ass; Tom Cruise? Short dude, good actor, not someone anyone would confuse with Jack Reacher. The guy playing Reacher now is the guy in the book.
Cruise is a good actor. His Scientology stuff doesn't bother me in the least bit since that's on him and has nothing to do with me or, really, what he does for a living. Just don't let him play Jack Reacher again. Ever.
I've heard it said he wears lifts in his shoes, and they have used orange crates for him to stand on next to taller leading ladies so he looks taller than them.
have you ever read a book of historical fiction - written by a famous and learned author who had an army of researchers working on their advanced degrees at his disposal - yet still makes a claim that is pivotal to much of the subsequent chapters but is absolutely inaccurate and is merely a regurgitation of the commonly-believed falsehoods of its day? the author I decided to highlight is James Michener.. his book is CENTENNIAL.. in the story, the character Pasquinal - a Métis fur trapper - scolds his young, recently-rescued fur-trapping partner Alexander MacKeag because he gets ill watching Pawnee kill & scalp white thieves.. Pasquinal claims it was French and British who 'taught' Amerindians 'how to take scalps' during the Seven Years' War.. this is not true.. I too had been 'taught' that as a kid/young adult.. The facts are, scalp-taking was a ritualized method of 'destroying' members of opposing tribes.. There is one site in the lower-Missouri drainage where early Osage and Arikara(?) did battle and the entire population of the losing band was scalped; including infants, both sexes and dogs.. this all took place a couple of hundred years before Vikings reached North America, so it's a safe bet British and French weren't involved.. I suspect there are some deeply-embedded beliefs that cultures embrace that are considered sacrosanct and rather than investing scarce research resources, we skip-over imagined yet never-proven 'truths'.. The crappy treatment experienced by Native American cultures was undergoing a reexamination during the late 1960s through 1970s, when this book was written.. I just suspect that much of our 'knowledge' is actually built on suppositions and myths.. That doesn't necessarily mean 'untrue' - as myth can most definitely be truth embedded in stories - but I try to look up plot points that don't quite pass my 'sniff test'.. I'm usually wrong, but not always..
