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Besides "all of them", which movie is made immediately better if every character is conspicuously Australian?
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AA5B lemmy.world AA5B@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#52 · Quote Reply

Every Sean Connery movie! Imagine a Scottish accent playing a Spaniard from ancient Egypt as an Australian! There can be only one!

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AA5B lemmy.world AA5B@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#53 · Quote Reply

I downvoted them because they used the americanised version, instead of the correct version that's called Philosopher's Stone. I won't be party to allowing those yanks to rewrite history anymore. IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE! IT'S IMMORAL. IT SMELLS LIKE STINKY CHEESE!!!

Wait really. Why the efff would that be something to change? I just always thought the editor let an inconsistency through

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john_tech lemmy.zip john_tech@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-13
#54 · Quote Reply

Thought the post said Austrian. I need someone to give me a movie that would be better if the cast was Austrian now

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spittingimage lemmy.world spittingimage@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#55 · Quote Reply

Imagine Brian Brown as Gandalf.

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D_C sh.itjust.works D_C@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#56 · Quote Reply

Wait really. Why the efff would that be something to change? I just always thought the editor let an inconsistency through

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-18387,00.html

https://www.goodreads.com/questions/3-why-did-they-choose-to-change-the-title

It's either:
That the decision makers in hollywood didn't think the original title had enough pizzazz so changed it to sorcerer to thrill it up a bit.
Or that american kids/parents just wouldn't understand what the film was about from the title so dumbed it down for them.

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DoubleDongle lemmy.world DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-23
#57 · Quote Reply

I'm not sure if that movie needs another layer of weird.

It's like garlic. You can have too much, but too much is a fucking lot, way more than the recommended amount.

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Dharma Curious (he/him) slrpnk.net dharmacurious@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-03-22
#58 · Quote Reply

Rowling needs to fade into irrelevance

Yes, she does. It'd be great. But pretending an insanely influential piece of media doesn't exist doesn't help us or the trans movement. Harry potter can exist and we can enjoy our memories of it without further contributing to it and boycotting all future sales. Fuck jk, fuck the franchise at this point, and fuck trabsphobes in general and specific. But the movies exist, they were good, and I wouldn't spend a red cent on any any new HP material, but the memories are free.

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CrimeIsLegalNow ani.social CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social
Joined: 2026-09-09
#59 · Quote Reply

Thought the post said Austrian. I need someone to give me a movie that would be better if the cast was Austrian now

The Sound of Music

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AA5B lemmy.world AA5B@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
#60 · Quote Reply

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-18387,00.html https://www.goodreads.com/questions/3-why-did-they-choose-to-change-the-title It's either: That the decision makers in hollywood didn't think the original title had enough pizzazz so changed it to sorcerer to thrill it up a bit. Or that american kids/parents just wouldn't understand what the film was about from the title so...

While I expect such interference in standalone films, wasn’t this the height of Harry Potter? They had a huge and dedicated fan base that would have gone to any movie in that series

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psud aussie.zone psud@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-26
#61 · Quote Reply

While I expect such interference in standalone films, wasn’t this the height of Harry Potter? They had a huge and dedicated fan base that would have gone to any movie in that series

It was changed in the book, it was a new book at the time

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