Heddlu

Listening to Sir Terry on Radio 2 this morning, I am sure that I heard a bizarre news snippet (not in the regular news) about a policeman in Cardiff who found a dead donkey in the street. He started writing it up in his book, realised that he couldn’t spell the street name so dragged the body round the corner into Splot Street and wrote it up there.

Now while this is a rather gingery thing to do, I find it rather believable; it is Wales after all¹. Trouble is, I haven’t been able to find anything about it via Google, so it may be either a hallucination on my part, or just some spuff spouted by Radio 2…


¹I shall now officially go into hiding, to escape the caustic comments I expect from ladkyis

Heddlu

Listening to Sir Terry on Radio 2 this morning, I am sure that I heard a bizarre news snippet (not in the regular news) about a policeman in Cardiff who found a dead donkey in the street. He started writing it up in his book, realised that he couldn’t spell the street name so dragged the body round the corner into Splot Street and wrote it up there.

Now while this is a rather gingery thing to do, I find it rather believable; it is Wales after all¹. Trouble is, I haven’t been able to find anything about it via Google, so it may be either a hallucination on my part, or just some spuff spouted by Radio 2…


¹I shall now officially go into hiding, to escape the caustic comments I expect from ladkyis

A part in the movies...

I find myself vexed by the question why should film makers cast one person and then make that person look like another actor. Why not just cast the person you are looking for?

In particular I am thinking of Beowulf. Now I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’ve seen posters and stills from it. I have no problem as such with the eponymous hero being played by Ray (you slag) Winstone, but I can’t for the life of me work out why they then decided to make him look like Sean (three rounds a minute in any weather) Bean. Why not just cast old Sharpie and done with?

I realise that the movie characters are all CGI, but they could have just made Beowulf look like a more athletic version of Winstone rather than a misty-eyed Bean.

I now have to ponder whether a Dark Ages Jute would be more likely to sound like an East End thug or a Sheffield thug…

A part in the movies...

I find myself vexed by the question why should film makers cast one person and then make that person look like another actor. Why not just cast the person you are looking for?

In particular I am thinking of Beowulf. Now I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I’ve seen posters and stills from it. I have no problem as such with the eponymous hero being played by Ray (you slag) Winstone, but I can’t for the life of me work out why they then decided to make him look like Sean (three rounds a minute in any weather) Bean. Why not just cast old Sharpie and done with?

I realise that the movie characters are all CGI, but they could have just made Beowulf look like a more athletic version of Winstone rather than a misty-eyed Bean.

I now have to ponder whether a Dark Ages Jute would be more likely to sound like an East End thug or a Sheffield thug…