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I thought in Amok's version her forehead was too big.

Personally, my favorites are two pieces from the fan art page of George's website.

Everywhere else I've looked it seems as if the artist was basically making porn for himself, so they always end up looking like a Baywatch character or a porn actress. I don't understand that kind of thinking, it must be something about straight men, perhaps they have bad taste or are simply incapable of appreciating female beauty that isn't catering directly to their sexual desires. Very sad.

Anyway...

These two, however, are beautiful, really, without being skanks, and suggest quite of lot of Daenerys to me.

MOTHER TO DRAGONS - From My Readers - George R.R. Martin's Official Website

DANY, BY JENNY - From My Readers - George R.R. Martin's Official Website

It's okay if Ursa will never change his mind, if it doesn't bother him that he's wrong, I won't let it bother me!
 
If it's any consolation, TSW, I like the picture at the second of your links, particularly the human attractiveness it shows. :) If they chose an actress with that face (and one that could act**), I'd be more than happy.


I don't like the picture at the first link (Mother to Dragons) as a representation of what I'd like the actress to look like. As a sketch, it's fine, and I can see why you like it, but sketches do not have to be wholly realistic to evoke beauty.

Let's start with the spectacularly obvious. In the sketch, the face is too cartoonish, particularly the chin. I'm not trying to be dismissive by using the adjective, cartoonish. It's just that what looks attractive in cartoon characters with their exaggerated features (often eyes, though not in this case) would look bizarre, if not rather scary, on a real human being.

I'm not entirely sure why some things look attractive in a drawing when they wouldn't in reality, but perhaps we (or maybe it's just me) see attractiveness in context. Most cats, big and small, have beautiful faces (though there are always exceptions), but you wouldn't want to walk around the streets with a face that really looked like a cat's; I suspect that many people you'd meet would see it as freakish, entirely missing the beauty that they'd expect if those features matched their expectations (i.e. by being on a cat).

I think we carry on this contextual discrimination into cartoons; the exaggerated features can look beautiful to us because we know it's fine for cartoon characters: they don't stand out in the "wrong"*** way.


Speaking of taking things the wrong way, I ought to say that I'm in no way implying that you think an actress playing Dany ought to look like the Dany in the Mother of Dragons sketch.



** - For all we know, the actual actress chosen will win you all over by her acting ability; or she may make us all wish that they'd chosen someone else, even if she can act; as has been said, stills are not always the best guide. We won't know any of this until we've seen the series on our screens.

*** - I've put the word, wrong, in quotes, because we shouldn't be judging people on their appearances (particular those endowed by genes), but by their characters.

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It is an awfully superficial argument.

I suppose I care so much because I do plan on watching the show, and I don't want the appearance of the actors to become the way I see them in the book, because I like my versions better, obviously.
 
Everyone imagined Dany slightly differently, but all imagined her as being very young. Based on that alone, no actress chosen could meet the expectations of what we imagined, because of the age difference that will esxist between the print version of Dany and the screen version. What will matter to me is whether or not she gets the essence of Dany right.

I remember watching Frost/Nixon and by the end of the movie, Frank Langella had become Nixon for me. They showed a clip at the end of Nixon (I think resigning) and I commednted to my wife that Langella did a better Nixon than Nixon did.

If GOT characterizes people as well as LOTR did I'll be happy.
 
I pictured Jon Snow different than who and how they have him made up, hair etc.
Also isnt Jaime supposed to have blond curls? Seem sthey have him different too.
Show still looks incredibly awesome.
 
Jaime should look like my residual self image. Now if only HBO could look into my mind...
 
Yeah, I didn't much care for any of the male actors.

I thought they'd be more attractive, especially the one playing Jaime.
 
I must admit, seeing Dany more and in better context, I'm slowly warming to her. Well, until she opened her mouth and told how 'wicked' the character is. I do hope she puts on more of a cultured accent for the show...
 
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Yeah, I didn't much care for any of the male actors.

I thought they'd be more attractive, especially the one playing Jaime.
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I think the guy playing Jaime is not unattractive, but I'm still a little disappointed at his look. Cersei has yellow-blond hair, as do her kids, yet Jaime's hair is much darker. How hard would it have been to give him a dye job for chrissakes? Not golden enough! :p
 
Dany by Jenny on Martin's site was posted on the chrons first by member Tysha, who is the artist.
 
Big Bear, thanks.... I'd put a healthy SPOILER ALERT out if they could read my mind.

cul, I also wondered at Dany's accent. I know she's not had the proper education and refinement that a Targaryen princess should have, yet she should not be straigt outta Compton.
 
I can't recall**, but did we hear Emilia Clarke in character or only in an interview? If the latter, we can't really say what Dany's accent is like.

(For instance: the Doctor Who before the current one did not have the actor's Scottish accent, nor does Merlin have the actor's Northern Irish accent. Sean Bean will, of course, be using his own voice - as he always seems to - but I expect that the lesser-known actors will be using whatever accent the production company asks of them.)




** - I really should have been paying more attention, shouldn't I?
 
Have just watched the YouTube version on GRRM's site: We don't hear Dany, only Ms Clarke.
 
I think that's more than a bit unfair, Cul. (It isn't as if she talks as if she comes from Brisbane, is it? ;):))

Why should an actress, speaking as herself, talk as she would in character? (Some might call doing so, pretentious.) And Mr Dinklage was using his natural accent; I doubt he'll be the American Lannister ("from across the Western Sea") when he's playing Tyrion.

If Ms Clarke does speak with the accent we heard in the preview and you find it distracting, Cul, or even unacceptable, you'd be better laying the blame on one or more of the producers/directors/casting director(s) than the actress taking the direction.
 
I wouldn't expect she'd speak in character in an interview at all - that's not remotely what I was saying. Just merely hoping, as you say, that the actress, director, producers, speech coach, a combination of all of the above or whomever, have her speaking with a little more of an appropriate accent in the show, which I fully expect they will have.

You keep making out like a have a vendetta against this poor girl, Urse! I'm just expressing current misgivings born of the merest glimpses that we have so far been given that I hope and, really, expect, will be proven false by the final product.
 
But that's the point: we have not even had the merest glimpse (or whatever the aural equivalent is) of Dany's voice, as opposed to that of Ms Clarke, not even a fraction of a syllable. So unlike the still, where we saw her dressed as Dany and could make valid comments one way or the other about its "authenticity", we cannot here (no pun intended; well, almost :)). With luck, before April** we may get a clip where she is talking as Dany (and we may get to hear some Dothraki as well).





** - Even after April would be good for me, as I'll have to wait for the DVDs to come out to see the show. :(
 
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