Wonder Boys FIlm

After seeing the first half of Wonder Boys, I was interested in the actors that were chosen to play the parts in the movie, and the setting chosen for the film. First of all, it was really cool to see our Carnegie Mellon campus in a movie. Its strange seeing streets I travel every day on the big screen. I was really interested to see who was playing James Leer, and Grady Tripp. While reading the book, I did the picture Grady trip as Michael Douglas, but now I can’t imagine any other actor playing him. His way of taking funny situations and making witty comments fits his acting style. The character I am more skeptical of is Tobey Maguire as James Leer. I can’t seem to get past the fact that whenever I picture James Leer, I now picture Spider-man. It was sort of annoying as the character of James Leer is a very interesting character and picturing him as Spider-man took away from the experience of seeing James Leer for the character he is, a loner student who caught the eye of his drugged up English professor. Seeing Carnegie Mellon from this point of view is very strange as I cannot imagine a University with professors like Grady Tripp. If a professor like Grady Tripp did exist at Carnegie Mellon, I would definitely take his/her class, as the lectures have got to be entertaining!