Star Trek Reboot

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One thing that I think I haven't seen anyone else mention is how well the recast actors did with the body language of their counterparts. Sure, it wasn't McCoy's voice, or Sarek's, or anyone else's -- but they had taken the pains to mimic the body language. Sarek's ramrod-straight spine. Kirk's various ungainly/macho ways of sitting in his command chair. They got it right, which made up for the voices being different.

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[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

*sigh* When I was in 7th grade, we went to New York for a field trip, and we went briefly to the American Museum of Natural History. At that time they had a huge banner advertising their planetarium show, mentioning that it was narrated by Mark Lenard. I was so excited, and had nobody to share that with, and I probably just went back to which ever Star Trek book I was reading at the time. I carried them to school in plain brown wrappers because I didn't like all the crap I got for reading them. At the time, I'd only seen him in the two eps where Sarek shows up in TNG, but that was enough.

It's sad when the actors you grew up with turn out to not, in fact, live forever. But it's good to now be among people who get this stuff.

And I've _still_ never been to that planetarium!!

[antoniseb.livejournal.com]

Eomer from The Lord of the Rings movies, and Sean "of the Dead" were both great!

[alphaggek.livejournal.com]

yea, they got the body language and attitude right

[bernina2000de.livejournal.com]

I agree 100% and I was skeptical - I like many - grew up with those guys :) I felt like I had a plate of comfort-food with a slightly modern twist.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

McCoy's voice wasn't the same, but his speech patterns were very close. Think of how he said, "I suffer from aviphobia. It's a fear of dying in something that flies.".

[kimbari.livejournal.com]

Karl Urban had me at "Leonard McCoy," and that was before the movie even premiered!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

He had me at warning that he might puke.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

I think the cadence of McCoy's speech was spot on, even if it wasn't DeForest Kelley's voice.

And, scuttlebutt has it that while Urban (McCoy) and Quinto (Spock) studied the original series to nail their characters, Pine (Kirk) specifically avoided such study. If true, he got the body language out of knowing the character on paper, not by knowing Shatner's interpretation.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I think that may be for the best, that Pine learned from paper. It was refreshing for him to have less study of the mannerisms than some of the other cast did, and I realize it might just be because I've never been that into Kirk, but still, I liked it that way.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

IMDB says he Pine studied ST:TOS to get the mannerisms. Whether or not that is true, I could not say.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

I definitely noticed the "my balls are too big for my pants" Kirk sprawl in the command chair!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Actually, I thought that some of the voices were excellent, particularly Karl Urban as McCoy. (He had me laughing from the start simply because he was so good at channeling DeForest Kelley. I really liked him.) And, yes, the body language was great.