Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
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During the weekend, a campaign started to arise about the acting cast of the new movie of “Diary Of The Wimpy Kid” and one of its characters, Rodrick. People are upset about the new actor who is playing the new Rodrick instead of the older actor Devon Bostick. The new actor’s name is Charlie Wright, and he does not look like the Rodrick that we all know and love. The campaign started when the trailer came out of the new movie and people were enraged by what they saw. Most of the people on social media were comparing him to different characters from different shows/movies. Wright is mostly compared to Lord Farquaad, Bella Thorne, Jeffree Star, Pleakley from “Lilo and Stitch” and Dora The Explorer. People mostly were just roasting this actor because how different he looks from the original Rodrick from the past movies. The reason why the original actor wasn’t going to be in the movie is because he is 25 years old now, and he doesn’t really look like a teenager anymore so the producers just needed another actor that actually looks younger and they found one (that doesn’t really look like Rodrick). There is also another trending hashtag “Not My Heffleys” as well with the “Not My Rodrick” campaign. Because they also replaced the actor for Greg, mom, dad, and even Rowley. Our childhood has been taken from us and has been replaced with different actors. This tomfoolery is outrageous to all of our childhoods and our hearts have been ripped out of our chests. Why can’t they just keep the old actors and show them looking older and growing? Nobody stays young forever.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2021 film)
Rodrick Heffley is the semi-aggressive older brother of Greg and Manny Heffley and the drummer and founder of the rock band Löded Diper. He is a major character in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, acting as a tertiary antagonist in the series overall and serving as the main antagonist of Rodrick Rules. In the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid films, he is played by Devon Bostick, with the role being passed on to Charlie Wright in the film adaptation of The Long Haul. He is voiced by Hunter Dillon in the animated Diary of a Wimpy Kid film for Disney+. BackgroundBirth and ChildhoodRodrick as a baby Rodrick Heffley was born to Susan and Frank Heffley in Plainview. When Greg was little, Rodrick liked to mess with his head. The first lie he told Greg was that, if your belly button got untied (as a newborn), your butt would fall off. Greg told his whole preschool class, which caused a big stir. Another lie was that the toilet seat was only used for girls. Greg believed this, until he accidentally left the door unlocked, and Susan found him. Once he told Greg that, if someone wears camouflage, they are invisible to everyone else. That incident got Greg banned from the pool for the rest of the summer, due to him looking at naked women. Sometimes Rodrick's lies even end up costing money. Greg once believed that, if you put money in the ground, it will grow into a money tree. Rodrick took the money, and Greg lost a lot of his birthday money until his mom stepped in to help him. Teen YearsRodrick Heffley attended Westmore Middle School and became friends with Chris Merkle and Ward and they together created the band Löded Diper. He also wrote an assignment called A Hundred Years Ago; this assignment was the reason Frank started to do his homework for him. He used to be a trouble maker in school and was greatly disliked by some of the teachers there, one such person being Mr. Huff. During this time, Rodrick tried out soccer, but quit because of Mr. Litch. Rodrick meets Bill A summer later, Rodrick and his friends were going camping overnight looking for concert tickets; during that time, they meet Bill Walter. Rodrick became friends with him and looked up to him, because in high school he was voted, "Most Likely To Be A Rock Star". Rodrick attended Crossland High School, but the school has not been mentioned for a while. He either graduated or the school has simply not been mentioned, since the series is on a floating timeline. PersonalityLike Greg, Rodrick is shown to have no real talents, and is only good at a few things, mainly rock music, and spends most of his time on it, which drafts him away from schoolwork. He would much rather sleep for hours over doing anything else. Fitting with his love for heavy metal music, Rodrick is the founder and lead drummer of a band called “Löded Diper”, a metal band. Its lead singer is a man whom Rodrick's parents are afraid he will turn into. Rodrick is extremely lazy and careless when it comes to school, which explains where Greg gets his laziness. He almost never gets a grade above C-, except for his book reports (where Frank does nearly all the work due to Rodrick's inability to type). Greg believes that Rodrick is lazy and unintelligent in all other areas, though there are clues that show otherwise. Rodrick clearly isn't the smartest in the family academic wise as he hardly makes an effort at school and constantly asks his parents to do his work for him, as already mentioned. Sometimes he can even get rewarded for bad grades. When Greg was invited to a café by his parents as a reward for his great half-year report card with A's and B's on it, Rodrick was allowed to come too despite of his report card being as terrible as usual. Although Rodrick is portrayed in this manner, he is actually quite manipulative and intelligent in conning other people. Rodrick is said by Greg to be a terrible speller (though he spelled everything right besides band names on his activity page in The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book) and is said to be completely ignorant about how to use any electronic device. (although this may be more manipulation to get things done for him; he is clearly seen using a music player in Rodrick Rules and a cell phone in a flashback in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, and in The Ugly Truth it is shown that he uploads photos online and he is again seen using a music player once again in Hard Luck. He also messages his friends as shown The Deep End). Rodrick did terribly back in elementary and middle school. The only reason Rodrick is doing slightly better at high school is that he cheats by having his dad do all the work for him, but in Hard Luck, it is said his first quarter didn't go well, meaning that his father might have stopped helping him. In the online book, Rodrick gets into a big fight with his dad in seventh grade, so he had to do a history paper himself. Greg buys that paper and flunks it. He is shown to misspell a lot of words even in the recent books, like for example, in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days and the online book, when they got Sweetie (the dog), Rodrick went and got the dog a bowl that says "Sweaty". In The Long Haul, he thought a safe is a microwave and bacon comes from pigs in the same way that eggs from chickens. Even though Rodrick is often lazy, mean, careless, and irresponsible, he is shown to have a softer side at times, as seen where he can occasionally treat Greg nicely and the brothers get along. They also do some stuff together. In the most recent books, he tends to be more responsible and treats his family nicely with respect. AppearanceRodrick usually wears a white shirt and black jeans but sometimes black shorts similar to Greg and wears a black tank top with ripped shorts and black shoes whenever he's going to a concert or performing a band show. Rodrick appears very alike to Greg as when Jeff Kinney draws Rodrick he starts off as if he's drawing Greg because they have the same facial structure.[1] Rodrick stands out because of his eyebrows and five short strains of hair. In the films Rodrick has black hair and occasionally wears makeup but In The Long Haul he has long hair. In the animated film he has multiple strains of hair that covers all around his head. Trivia
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