I reckon the biggest issue with casting Link is the fact that Link in the games has practically no personality of his own. Pretty sure this was an intentional game design, the idea being that the player basically gets an empty vessel to insert whatever personality he chooses to role-play in the adventure.
Compare this to pretty much everyone else in the Zelda games; they have goals, interests, personalities, actual dialog, and all that interesting stuff. The world is expansive, developed, full of colorful characters and fascinating history. Plenty of fodder for a movie in there.
Give me a Legend of Zelda movie that actually focuses on, oh, I dunno, ZELDA? I'd be all in on that. Link can just stay sleeping in Kokiri Village or whatever it is he does when she doesn't actually need him to go find a Master Sword or whatever, which is honestly probably most of her life. I'm sure she has plenty of other stories to tell.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2023-11-20 11:14 pm (UTC)From:I reckon the biggest issue with casting Link is the fact that Link in the games has practically no personality of his own. Pretty sure this was an intentional game design, the idea being that the player basically gets an empty vessel to insert whatever personality he chooses to role-play in the adventure.
Compare this to pretty much everyone else in the Zelda games; they have goals, interests, personalities, actual dialog, and all that interesting stuff. The world is expansive, developed, full of colorful characters and fascinating history. Plenty of fodder for a movie in there.
Give me a Legend of Zelda movie that actually focuses on, oh, I dunno, ZELDA? I'd be all in on that. Link can just stay sleeping in Kokiri Village or whatever it is he does when she doesn't actually need him to go find a Master Sword or whatever, which is honestly probably most of her life. I'm sure she has plenty of other stories to tell.