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Zeus posted...

I also liked Daredevil, although a not-terribly-large black Kingpin made for ridiculous casting in an already weirdly-cast film.

To be fair, I kind of lump that in the same category as all female heroes having giant tits. It's kind of unrealistic for live-action, and if you try to simulate it anyway it starts looking kind of ridiculous. It'd be really hard to cast someone to look like comic book Kingpin, because comic book Kingpin is over-exaggerated to extreme degrees.

(The same reason I never really had a problem with the original X-Men movie giving them black leather outfits instead of the yellow spandex costumes from the comics - what looks good in one medium doesn't necessarily work well in another. Which is, ironically, why I DID hate when they started using the black leather outfits in the comics, because they kind of looked like shit there.)

Sure, you could cast someone with a body-type/face like Erland Van Lidth De Jeude or Pruitt Taylor Vince, but those don't really convey the implied "none of this is fat, it's all muscle" aspect of the character. Or you might be able to find a wrestler or strongman with a "fat" body that is mostly strength, but then you've got a non-actor in the role and you lose performance for the sake of appearance (which happened way too much in earlier comic book movies).

Not that I think Michael Clarke Duncan was the best choice for the role (for multiple reasons), or that how he played the character was even necessarily the best that he specifically could have done in and of himself, but I do understand why we're probably never getting a perfect comic book version of the Kingpin on-screen.

D'Onofrio did a good job with the look and persona, but still really lacks that "this is a man who could potentially beat the shit out of Daredevil bare-handed" sort of vibe.


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