SomeGuy
Since: Jan, 2001
May 12th 2010 at 2:02:11 PM
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Yes, I would say the examples you mention qualify under the definition of this trope. Describing in words isn't all that different from describing with an actual pen.
See you in the discussion pages.
Can this also include cases in non-visual media where the writer pictured the character as "played by" a particular actor, but it's not as obvious because you can't see them? A famous example is that Cornelia Funke based Mo in Inkheart on Brendan Fraser, who went on to play the character in the film version. (And in her less-famous novel The Thief Lord, she based Viktor on Bob Hoskins. It was also made into a film, but not with Bob Hoskins in.)
Fans of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe will recall one particular writer with an avowed tendency to "cast" the characters in his novels, and to have one in each novel "played" by Ian Richardson.
There's a couple of examples on the Barbara Hambly page, listed under Expy, which doesn't seem quite right.
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