Who would make a good Honor Harrington in a Movie/TV role?

Bill Woods wrote:

Theemile wrote: Eric Flint had a few interesting (and true) things to say about the English language. (Paraphrasing)

1) It was a language created in English tavern as Norman nobels attempted to woo Saxon barmaids

2) English is a language which chases other languages into dark alleys, mugs them and rifles through their pockets for loose Grammer.

Flint may have quoted those lines, but they were originally said by others.

1) "English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results." -- H. Beam Piper

2) "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James D. Nicoll

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_language

I recently returned from a week in Italy visiting Italian friends and two weeks in Vienna visiting museums, restaurants, and a church or two. Usually we bring an English-to-whatever, whatever-to-English book along which we use mostly to get through menus. But everything was in English, along with the native language. What was even odder, in Vienna, was that our English language tour guide in the opera house was from Moscow. My wife spotted her slightly Slavic accented English so she asked the woman where she was from. The street food vendor we spoke (English) with who was from Bolivia and another vendor from Azerbaijan were a surprise. Everyone from everywhere, all speaking our mish-mosh of a language. And the tourist from China who spoke perfect English and asked us to take his photo in front of one of the palaces.
Even the French seem to have stopped complaining.
So any movie taking place in the future that uses English as a common galactic language is doing what seems to be natural.

PeterZ wrote:Ms. Lawrence is 5'8" or 1.72 meters. Not many women will be taller than that and can act. I suspect it will be easier to find shorter actors to play opposite her than find a taller woman.

clancy688 wrote:
So what? In HotQ, Honor still had closely cropped hair... ^^

Only problem: She isn't tall enough...


That's what dye's there for. Or is perhaps her blond hair dyed...?



I think she could be a good Lara Craft as well...

Actually as a case in point. The gal that played Lois Lane (Erica Durance) is also 5'8" and they had to alter the perceived height of a lot of her male co-stars because she was taller than most of them. So I don't think 5'8" is too off the mark. If Durance was younger I think she could have pulled off the role.

Weber has stated that Honor Harrington looks like Sigourney Weaver.

This did not excite me until I remembered her role in Galaxy Quest.

Take a look at these photos of Ms Weaver.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sig ... ORM=HDRSC2

How about Jessica Biel ?

She looked good in Blade Trinity

namelessfly wrote:Take a look at these photos of Ms Weaver.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sig ... ORM=HDRSC2

Booooooooooooobs...

...by the way, does anyone know Honor's bust size?

clancy688 wrote:

namelessfly wrote:Take a look at these photos of Ms Weaver.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sig ... ORM=HDRSC2

Booooooooooooobs...

...by the way, does anyone know Honor's bust size?

Weaver is so not appropriate. She is eligible for Social Security, born in 1949. rfc is clearly thinking height (5' 11") and general facial structure when he says Honor looks like Weaver. Not age. She ain't the gal in "The Year of Living Dangerously"anymore folks.

And as nameless once exclaimed: Honor has tits?

rdt wrote:
And as nameless once exclaimed: Honor has tits?

There is textev...

Paul Tankersley's slow breathing didn't change, but his hand responded even in his sleep. It slipped up her ribs and cupped her breast like a warm, friendly little animal.

(Short Victorious War)

Jeroswen wrote:
Actually as a case in point. The gal that played Lois Lane (Erica Durance) is also 5'8" and they had to alter the perceived height of a lot of her male co-stars because she was taller than most of them. So I don't think 5'8" is too off the mark. If Durance was younger I think she could have pulled off the role.

I am surprised that no one has nominated Gemma Arterton. Has the exotic look and has done the action scenes. She's 5'7" or 1.7M.

Hmm, I think Honor's chest size is one item that will remain in Runsforcelery's Top Secret fact sheet that will never be reveled

Poker

clancy688 wrote:

rdt wrote:
And as nameless once exclaimed: Honor has tits?

There is textev...

Paul Tankersley's slow breathing didn't change, but his hand responded even in his sleep. It slipped up her ribs and cupped her breast like a warm, friendly little animal.

(Short Victorious War)

IIRC, there is a scene in Mission of Honor where Whitehave is groping her too!

Seriously; my attitude is that while some are bigger than others, they are all beautiful unless they have been pumped full of silicone. What is important is acting ability, physicality (credible as a martial artist), youthful enough to play the role in sequels, and perhaps an exotic look.