Felicia Day is the Elf Assassin of my Dreams
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Posted on: 2011-02-15 21:21 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
*Looks at picture*
Elf in Dragon Age... no tattoos. So likely she's a City Elf.
Something tells me that they're going to ignore the lore and behavior of people in that game series that makes it not for kids. 
Who knows, maybe she'll end up covered in over-exaggerated blood splatter?
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And engage in friendly conversation with people who'll never mention it.
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
Who knows, maybe she'll end up covered in over-exaggerated blood splatter?
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She can live in my alienage any time she wants.
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Originally Posted by Inazuma
She is rocking those pointy ears, and I have a new desktop image!
http://kotaku.com/#!5761264/first-look-at-felicia-day-as-an-eleven-assassin-in-dragonage-webseries |
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I can't wait to see this.
I generally don't like Fantasy Elves in movies - they just get a human actor (admitedly usually slim with minimal body hair, but still...) and stick pointy ears on them. If Elves don't have large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes it just doesn't work, IMO.
'Course, I used to like Elves more than I do now, so whatevas.
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So you're saying they should be getting actual elves to play the elves in movies? I agree. For too long this discrimination again Elven Actors in the movie business has gone unopposed.
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Originally Posted by Socorro
I generally don't like Fantasy Elves in movies - they just get a human actor (admitedly usually slim with minimal body hair, but still...) and stick pointy ears on them. If Elves don't have large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes it just doesn't work, IMO.
'Course, I used to like Elves more than I do now, so whatevas. |
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Well just to play Devil's Advocate there's probably just about as many opinions on what makes a "proper" elf as there are people in the world. And besides the way you said "they just get a human actor" sounds as if we could (and should) be getting REAL elves to play elvish roles in movies. If they actually exist then I wouldn't have a problem with that at all. |
Originally Posted by Socorro
I generally don't like Fantasy Elves in movies - they just get a human actor (admitedly usually slim with minimal body hair, but still...) and stick pointy ears on them. If Elves don't have large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes it just doesn't work, IMO.
'Course, I used to like Elves more than I do now, so whatevas. |
Unless you have the budget of something like Cameron's Avatar to make awesome CGI "elves" there's always going to be some compromise that won't suit everyone. I'm quite sure Felicia's version of an elf won't be that much different than any other's we've seen on screen so far. *shrugs*
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I didn't realize there was a proper standard for elves. Given they aren't real and all. /shrug
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I didn't realize there was a proper standard for elves. Given they aren't real and all. /shrug
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My favorite are the redhaired ones who star in "The Guild" and "Red: Werewolf Hunter."|
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I like the ones that make the cookies.
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If Felicia makes me cookies, that'd be the hat trick!
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Felicia Day, Red: Werewolf Hunter, The Guild.|
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My favorite are the redhaired ones who star in "The Guild" and "Red: Werewolf Hunter."
If Felicia makes me cookies, that'd be the hat trick! |
Two of these things are cool and I'd like to see more of.
One of these things was one of the worst god-awful things I ever wasted any time to watch.
It both amazes and saddens me these things are forever related.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
So you're saying they should be getting actual elves to play the elves in movies? I agree. For too long this discrimination again Elven Actors in the movie business has gone unopposed.
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I'm on the fence with this project. Felicia Day is awesome but these kinds of genre projects usually end up like bad SciFi channel fodder...
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Agreed. The Guild remains awesome. Red was... well, it was a SyFy production, so that says it all. A rare misstep for Felicia. Still, she had fun making it, from what I read.
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Originally Posted by Lothic
Felicia Day, Red: Werewolf Hunter, The Guild.
Two of these things are cool and I'd like to see more of. One of these things was one of the worst god-awful things I ever wasted any time to watch. It both amazes and saddens me these things are forever related. |
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Ewwwww...... Not that I have a problem with almond shaped eyes since one of the most beautiful women I will ever know possessed them but big slanted almond shaped eyes just makes them too alien for me. |
Originally Posted by Socorro
If Elves don't have large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes
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Anyways, I dont have a problem myself with a slim person playing an elf as long as they get the ears right.
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Please note I never said I liked Red: Werewolf Hunter, I just said she starred in it.
I barely made it through that film. 
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Is this like that thing about how all real vampires are Eastern European male nobles who turn to dust when exposed to sunlight?|
Originally Posted by Socorro
If Elves don't have large, slanted, almond-shaped eyes it just doesn't work, IMO.
'Course, I used to like Elves more than I do now, so whatevas. |
(Thus ignoring all differing lore that predates and postdates that specific stereotype.)
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All vampires are pale-skinned, black-haired females in their late 20's who like to wear skintight dresses that are cut to the navel.|
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Is this like that thing about how all real vampires are Eastern European male nobles who turn to dust when exposed to sunlight?
(Thus ignoring all differing lore that predates and postdates that specific stereotype.) |
I don't know where you are getting this stereotype that they're all *ick* dudes...
The whole "almond-shaped eyes" thing is pretty new in fantasy-fiction as a whole, I believe.
I don't ever recall reading a thing about that eye shape till Dragonlance came out, and only after Laurana was introduced.
And elves went from tall, to short and then back to tall as well.
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For those wondering, it's a short elf setting.|
Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy
And elves went from tall, to short and then back to tall as well.
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Unrelatedly, here's a teaser. Disclaimer: this is "our local television stations don't want this streamable so RAAAGE at America" content.
It's on YouTube now too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2mPgwrlT4
Interview
It has a longer trailer in it.
She is rocking those pointy ears, and I have a new desktop image!
http://kotaku.com/#!5761264/first-lo...nage-webseries