thephfactor1 wrote:About Swinton, I'm not really actually set on her coming back, I'm just wondering why you all seem to dislike the idea so much. It is certain that she's an excellent actress, one of the best of her generation perhaps. She was an amazing White Witch, she really made that movie what it was through her performance. So what I don't understand is: why the violent threats of murder?
I get that you see the White Witch and the LotGK as separate characters, and to a certain extent I would agree with you. But it's pretty obvious that they're related in some way. If Swinton was cast, not as the White Witch II, but as the Lady of the Green Kirtle, played with a different style ( and different costumes and wigs and things ), but subtly referring to the same otherworldy power of the Witch, I think it could be an added benefit and not just a distraction.
If they would just take out the Lady of the Green Kirtle and switch in The White Witch in a Green Dress, yeah, that I would have a problem with.
Sorry, no.
The producers would never cast someone who had played such a strong and distinctive character in the first movie (plus little cameos in the next two) as a different character in the fourth movie.
"But the BBC did it that way," some people cry.
The BBC did it that way because someone in their production team thought it was a good idea to employ the same actress in all three of their serials, maybe because their own interpretation was that they were identical characters; the same actress played the White Witch in LWW, the Hag in PC, and the LOTGK in SC.
As a result a whole generation has grown up thinking they are probably the same person. But they are not.
Unfortunately someone who works for the book publisher wrote a foolish introduction explaining that the evil female is the same person in all of these books, which was printed in one or more editions of the books. It is to be hoped that they no longer have a job at Harper Collins.
It may interest you to know that for at least two years NarniaWeb had a ban on the topic of whether LOTGK was the same person as WW. The mods agreed (and ruled) that these were not the same, but one or two individuals refused to accept this, and made a big fuss.