Godcasting and the Long, Long Walk

[featherynscale]

Last night, triadruid were taking our evening constitutional and debating the question I raised yesterday afternoon, namely 'Who would you cast to play your gods?'. We're walking types, so we were able to go through a bunch of the Irish set, some of the Norse, and a handful of Greeks. Big fun, yo.

Apparently, though, Someone was listening to the conversation and either was annoyed or amused and wanted us to continue. We got lost on the walk and were stuck in a weird street loop for a while. So the mile walk turned into more like two miles, but hey. The weather was nice.


Irish:
The Dagda - John Rhys-Davies
Diancecht - Christopher Walken
Miach - Cillian Murphy
Airmid - Neve Campbell
Nuada Silverhand - Harrison Ford, possibly
Bres - David Bowie (tell me that would not rock)
Maeve - Faye Dunaway
Goibnu - Bruce Willis
Mannanan mac Lir - Eric Stoltz (He was actually the first one we came up with, but the idea of Eric Stoltz playing Mannanan was so compelling that we kept returning to it, and it was derailing the conversation, so he's at the end of the list.)

Norse:
Sif - Kate Winslet
Loki - Seth Green (there's a man with a face full of trouble)
Heimdall - Antonio Banderas (as long as he never has to talk)

Greek:
Apollo - Heath Ledger
Hades - Alan Rickman
Hestia - Helen Hunt
Hermes - Alan Cumming (see above re: face full of trouble, except also, you know, friendly)
Athena - Jennifer Connelly
Artemis - Grace Jones (back in the Bond girl days -- I have no idea what she's doing now)
Prometheus - Seal

Regrettably, I can't remember any of the rest any more... Also, we discovered that there are apparently no actresses currently working who have the proper figure to be Norse or Irish goddesses. Also also, somebody needs a religion in which the psychopomp deity could be played by Harvey Keitel. He's obviously a psychopomp, but we couldn't find a good mythic system to put him in. Suggestions gladly accepted.

Comments

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

This sounds like an entirely fun thing to think about, however, my lack of thinking of anyone the other night, then blurting out at EIR the first actress (whom I really don't care for) I could think of because I was thinking of big breasts, I refrain from this, even though I may have some ideas. My Gods completely don't appreciate when I am silly about them... silly about myself, great, fantastic. But Them... unless They deserve it, of course.

Also, and, Kate Winslet... I'm not so sure. Gotta have the blonde hair on Sif and be beautiful, and while I think Kate is beautiful with red, pink, and even blue hair, I don't like blonde on her. And I think she's probably the closest thing to an actress working right now with the right body-type.

And I second the Neil Gaiman bid for writing this thing. For the director's seat, I'd put Terry Gilliam.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

No intention of getting you in trouble with your folks. (Nor was there at EIR -- breathofgold was just trying to get you to pin down what kind of a character She was and go from there.)

And hey, Terry Gilliam. That would make it a very different sort of a movie than the one I was envisioning, but it's a fascinating thought.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, no blame casting here! My own fault for not thinking quick on my feet! Nah, and it's not like I got big time trouble, and all... I probably make more of it than They intend! It's a trend in my life, you see...

Yeah, I love that about Gilliam, because his movies -- you never know what you're going to get except that it will certainly be a movie of not exactly what you did expect which is nothing at all because you didn't know what you would get... but what I like most about his movies is that you just sit back and watch because you have no clue what will happen next. Even though I knew a thing or two or more about Hunter S. Thompson's life, Fear and Loathing... still forced me to just sit back and watch, not try to figure out what would happen next.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Here, our patrons differ, then. Himself's only stipulation is that it be very clever. Given clever, he's okay with about anything, even if it's at his own expense.