merej
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Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?
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Post by merej on Nov 8, 2020 8:44:58 GMT
That movie slapped. I sat there with my jaw hanging open through the entire thing. So fabulous! The other movie with questionable accents that cracked me up was The Man in the Iron Mask. One American accent, one English, one Irish and one, lone French accent in a movie that took place in France. 😂 they weren’t even *trying* to make it fit together! Slapped? Another new word? I shan't recognise my own language soon the way it's being mucked about.😖
I looked it up however *grins* it was amazing, amazingly awful. Tell me about it. This language certainly keeps you on your toes!
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Post by ellie on Nov 8, 2020 17:57:05 GMT
The late Sean Connery used his Scottish accent in everything regardless. Most memorable for me is his Irish cop with a Scottish accent in The Untouchables and, hilariously in Highlander where Connery played a Mexican with a Scottish accent while Frenchman Christopher Lambert attempted a Sottish accent for his role as the “Highlander” of the title. Totally mad but I love that film.
Speaking of Scottish actors, Robert Carlyle is brilliant at accents. He has the broadest possible Glasweigen accent in real life yet I’ve seen him play Cockneys, posh and northern totally convincingly.
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Post by ellie on Nov 8, 2020 18:05:54 GMT
Speaking of kid language. Have you ever seen these? Armstrong & Miller, two British colleagues do these WW2 Pilots who speak like 21st century teenagers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GABT_l6VF0
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Post by prudence on Nov 8, 2020 20:08:02 GMT
I’m lost. Is Benedict involved in David Copperfield?
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 8, 2020 20:14:06 GMT
No, Prudence. I just moved the thread.
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Post by mllemass on Nov 8, 2020 21:17:43 GMT
He played Irish in Angela’s Ashes. When I saw it, I remember thinking “That’s the guy from The Full Monty!” I hadn’t seen him in anything else before.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2021 23:45:22 GMT
Has anyone watched this? My daughter and I watched this last night and I, for one, was very disappointed. They've done a "Pale Horse" on this. My daughter asked if David and Dora got married, which if they had stuck to the actual novel she wouldn't have had to ask. As much as I admire Ben Whishaw, he was badly cast as Uriah Heep. In the Maggie Smith version, Heep made me cringe. Played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, he made my flesh creep. Imo most the cast was miscast. As for Peter Capaldi, why on earth didn't he keep his accent? He simply cannot 'do' a cockney accent! He put me in mind of Dick Van dyke in Mary Poppins. I just watched it and you are absolutely right! It’s very disappointing, especially after the brilliant Death of Stalin. It’s all over the place and the farcical tone just doesn’t help it. It’s just impossible to feel anything for any of the characters even when they are played by wonderful actors. Even the cruel, cold, depraved and criminal Román Polanski did a much more empathetic Charles Dickens adaptation! And yes, I know this one was much better receive but it’s perplexing that modern film critics who supposedly are interested on social justice just didn’t noticed how all the social commentary of Dickens book was just whitewashed! Here no one is socially exploited. Here everyone is just a silly happy cartoonish character! Poor Wishaw. He isn’t not just not convincing as Heep but David and his friends feel like bullies in their interactions with him! He also looks like Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber! It’s insane because reviews on IMDb are mostly negative and all the positive ones claimed that it’s because the diversity of the cast and its true in a few of them. It’s a shame that something that’s actually normal in UK theatre and sometimes TV, was politicized but I guess at the end it helped the movie with the critical reception! I mean, Sophie Okonedo played Nancy in a BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist in 2007! Yes, the rest of the main cast was white but blind casting existed before this and no one made a big fuss about it then! Now, it’s the main issue, for both sides! I remember a comment on the Gold Derby forums predicting that Louis Wain will be David Copperfield 2.0 because the diverse cast. I hope not! The diverse ahistorical cast and the colorful photography shouldn’t be synonymous of a hollow plot and cartoonish performances. Again, Okonedo felt right and real in Oliver Twist as she did in The Hollow Crown playing Queen Margaret. The diverse cast is not the reason this movie feels fake. Also, I was thinking that here in Latin America no one would think that a white woman giving birth to a baby with darker skin is something irreal!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 12, 2021 0:42:28 GMT
I’m still thinking about what went wrong with this film and it seems to me that probably Iannucci is just not the right filmmaker to do Dickens. I mean there is a huge sentimentalism in Dickens that it’s probably the total opposite to the cruel satire and farce of Iannucci’s work.
At the same time, I’m amazed that he totally ignored the social commentary of Dickens when he is normally very interested on politics. But thinking about it, he maybe it’s more interested on power dynamics in those who actually have power than in to show labor exploitation and child abuse.
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Post by dickens38 on Jul 12, 2021 2:08:26 GMT
I agree about Iannucci. He made a better job of The Thick of it. As for The Pale Horse, there is an adaptation with Miss Marple solving the crime. She didn't, I listened to the audio book a few weeks ago. Why do they do this? The Death of Stalin was superb.
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