A thought that could also be a question for other writers

[leethet]

Given the upsurge in readership post-movie, I find it feels really odd to me to think of people reading my stories and picturing the movie-verse guys in them. I can't even imagine it - not having seen the film I can't see those actors/characters at all, let alone in my stories - but considering the possibility is really weird.

Am I the only one who thinks about that?

Comments

[leethet.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to think about, isn't it, in terms of authorial intent and reader autonomy?

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Yup.

But I have always argued that for fictional characters to truly live, they must be disengaged from the original and reinterpreted.

This is why we have iconic eternal pop culture characters like Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Frankenstein, Tarzan, Superman and James Bond.

If MFU is to keep going, Solo and Kuryakin must grow beyond Vaughn and McCallum's portrayals.

Although I enjoyed the movie, I will never see them in my head as the movie verse. On the other hand, in fnafic, we've all reinterpreted them already. The new movie just continues the work that the fandom began years ago.