Comments | calmnla: Jason Isaacs

calmnla

Jason Isaacs

Jun 14, 2007 23:17

Am I the last person on earth to know this? I just saw at imdb.com that Jason Isaacs, in "Dragonheart" (1996), played a character named Lord Felton. :-) And the dragon of the title is named "Draco." A year before the first book came out. This is classic. Isaacs was fated to be Tom Felton's dad in dragon-related films ( Read more... )

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luci0logy August 10 2007, 23:56:34 UTC

When you say 'more of that', do you mean more of those types of films/programmes or more actors that you are unaware of?

calmnla August 11 2007, 00:49:15 UTC

Hi! I meant more magical stories. Here in the U.S., our magical stories tend to be British (HP, King Arthur, Chronicles of Narnia, and I count Lord of the Rings as British since Tolkien was, etc). Native american magic has rarely made it to the big screen with the notable exception of "Smoke Signals" by Alexie Sherman which got a lot of attention in 1998. But the whole wizard thing? We don't have it. We borrow it from elsewhere. But then that seems okay for a nation formed, over and over again, of immigrants. But Britain seems to live with that part of its heritage right up front and center. Sooner or later everyone plays a witch or wizard, it seems.