Eye Color

[SeamusShameless]

I know most people will say that I'm just being nit-picky, but has anyone thought about the eye color of the new actors? So far, Pine's eyes don't match Shatner's, I'm not really sure about the rest of them, but I know Pine's don't match. For me, it will be difficult to suspend disbelief if the characters have different eye colors than I've seen my entire life. One of the first things you are taught in any acting class is that, "The eyes are the doorway to the soul,". For me, the character having different eye color would throw me off. Of course eye color is easily changed with contacts or digitally, but they have to do it right for it to look believeable. Take Jessica Alba in the Fantastic 4 movies, those blue contacts looked HORRIBLE. What do you guys think?

 

[Q2UnME]

Colored contacts are pretty common these days. Shatner's eyes were hazel, Pine's are blue. Should be easy to correct unless Pine cannot wear contacts.

Q2

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I think they'd do well to leave the actors' eyes alone - for exactly the "acting class" reason you mention.

If they feel the need to do something with them, using dark-tinted lenses on someone like Pine would be a better solution than trying to change his eyes with the kind of opaque-painted lenses you refer to in the case of Alba (or Brandon Routh); they almost never look real.

 

[seigezunt]

I couldn't even tell you what some of their eye colors were.

 

[Corinthian7]

seigezunt said:
I couldn't even tell you what some of their eye colors were.

Me neither to be honest, it just not something I would probably pick up on to be honest. Having said that I'll be surprised if they don't do something with contact lenses, hairstyles etc to make the transition of a new cast easier.

 

[SeamusShameless]

Kirk's were hazel, McCoys were blue, and the rest were brown. And Data's were gold, oops, wrong show.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Paramount changed Saavik's eye colour from green (ST II) to brown (ST III).

 

[23skidoo]

Unless the person's eyes are some weird Day-Glo color like Data or extremely distinctive (like those of Meg Foster and Stacy Haiduk) I can never tell one eye color from another in film or TV, so it really doesn't make a difference to me.

Cheers

Alex

 

[Barbados Slim]

This thread brought to you by the same people who said "Daniel Craig will suck balls as Bond because he's blond!"

Totally doesn't matter. Different actor playing Kirk 40 years later.

 

[Dale]

Insignifigant issue. Leave their eyes alone and let 'em act!

 

[davejames]

It's not a big deal to me either. These actors clearly don't LOOK exactly like their counterparts, so if I can suspend my disbelief for that, I can certainly suspend it for eye color.

Now if you're talking about a character like Superman, which isn't based on any one actor but an iconic comic book character, then I think eye color should matter a little more.

 

[Woulfe]

It's not like J. J. is gonna have the camera 1ft away from the actor's eye like they did in TSFS for the mind meld scene.

To this day that was a surprize seeing Shatner's eye take up an entire movie screen by itself, followed by Mark Lenord's lips of course.

Made the scene more intiment, like how Mind Melds are a verry intimate thing, yanno.

I don't see that happening here, unles we have a LOST style opening to the film, a close up on someone's eye namely

Most will overlook something like that in films tho'

 

[The Tone]

A good actor can portray brown eyes even if they have blue eyes.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

seigezunt said:
I couldn't even tell you what some of their eye colors were.

Hell, I've gotten in trouble more than once for not knowing eye color of the girl I was dating... as long as they're not something really freaky (glowing red, shiney silver, super-light-green), it's not something I really pay attention to.

Funny how women never seem to understand that, though.

 

[SeamusShameless]

lancemach said:
This thread brought to you by the same people who said "Daniel Craig will suck balls as Bond because he's blond!"

Totally doesn't matter. Different actor playing Kirk 40 years later.

I haven't seen Casino Royale, and I didn't bitch about Bond being blonde, I really couldn't give 2 shits about what color James Bond's hair is. The way I interpret the Bond franchise is that James Bond isn't any one person but rather several people using the identity and code-number 007 over the span of 45 years. You can't explain Star Trek that way. This Jim Kirk is the same person from TOS, so his eyes can't be a different color.

 

[Therin of Andor]

SeamusShameless said:
This Jim Kirk is the same person from TOS, so his eyes can't be a different color.

You reckon eye-colour is always permanent in the 23rd century?

 

[Nerys Myk]

SeamusShameless said:

lancemach said:
This thread brought to you by the same people who said "Daniel Craig will suck balls as Bond because he's blond!"

Totally doesn't matter. Different actor playing Kirk 40 years later.

I haven't seen Casino Royale, and I didn't bitch about Bond being blonde, I really couldn't give 2 shits about what color James Bond's hair is. The way I interpret the Bond franchise is that James Bond isn't any one person but rather several people using the identity and code-number 007 over the span of 45 years. You can't explain Star Trek that way. This Jim Kirk is the same person from TOS, so his eyes can't be a different color.

Yet his hair can constantly change color and shape even when played by the same actor.

 

[Barbados Slim]

SeamusShameless said:

lancemach said:
This thread brought to you by the same people who said "Daniel Craig will suck balls as Bond because he's blond!"

Totally doesn't matter. Different actor playing Kirk 40 years later.

I haven't seen Casino Royale, and I didn't bitch about Bond being blonde, I really couldn't give 2 shits about what color James Bond's hair is. The way I interpret the Bond franchise is that James Bond isn't any one person but rather several people using the identity and code-number 007 over the span of 45 years. You can't explain Star Trek that way. This Jim Kirk is the same person from TOS, so his eyes can't be a different color.

...If you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts (la-la-la!)...

 

[Christopher]

As stated, it's easy enough to change eye color with contacts, but if they do go that route, they're gonna need a lot of contacts. Four of the big seven have different eye colors than the originals: Pine, Urban, Pegg, and Yelchin. That's kind of surprising, just statistically speaking.

 

[ancient]

Eh, in real life eye color can change, so it's not a huge deal.

My eyes used to be blue, but are now green. Granted, it is never a huge change that really happens, but shade & color do change on some folks.

Plus I don't notice anyway unless they're really vivid or big anyway, so...