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« Reply #45 on: May 28, 2013, 01:52:51 PM » |
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^I remember watching latest James Bond movie and thinking that it is fairly obvious that this isn't an American film. AFAIK American movie heroes tend to be a lot more casual than Bond is.
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« Reply #46 on: May 28, 2013, 02:08:22 PM » |
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^I remember watching latest James Bond movie and thinking that it is fairly obvious that this isn't an American film. AFAIK American movie heroes tend to be a lot more casual than Bond is.
I find American heroes to be much more cowboy & action-oriented than non-American heroes. I almost wonder if they've amped up Bond from the books just to make it more appealing to Americans. Also, I found that while I was in Greece, I had to clean up my English in order to be understood. Apparently I would mumble, slur my speech and draw things out (I guess a feature of some parts of Missouri), so I started trying to clean my speech up, and actually had two Greeks tell me they didn't think I was American because I was so easily understandable and didn't have a strong accent. I also met a Greek-American girl who lives in Greece now who runs a salon, I was sent there for a haircut. It was funny how both of us started out with cleaner speech, and then fell back into our natural accents, me into my Western Missouri accent, her to her New York/New Jersey accent. |
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« Reply #47 on: May 28, 2013, 02:28:10 PM » |
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James Earl Jones' voice has the same range and similar timbre to Christopher Lee's. Casting is not accidental. |
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« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2013, 03:54:45 PM » |
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James Earl Jones' voice has the same range and similar timbre to Christopher Lee's. Casting is not accidental. ? That is David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, whose voice was dubbed over with Jones'. |
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« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2013, 04:07:44 PM » |
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James Earl Jones' voice has the same range and similar timbre to Christopher Lee's. Casting is not accidental. ? That is David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, whose voice was dubbed over with Jones'. I feel kinda sorry for him. He was just a dummy for the costume - because the face we see at the end of Episode VI is Sebastian Shaw's (in the original version, before Hayden Christensen was airbrushed in). |
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Umm, Devin, Archim. Irenei is actually American, who became an Oxford don. He's now at St Tikhon's Seminary. Fr Irenei's accent is a hybrid, and not something that anyone could call "British" or "English". |
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« Reply #51 on: May 29, 2013, 03:07:26 AM » |
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James Earl Jones' voice has the same range and similar timbre to Christopher Lee's. Casting is not accidental. ? That is David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, whose voice was dubbed over with Jones'. I feel kinda sorry for him. He was just a dummy for the costume - because the face we see at the end of Episode VI is Sebastian Shaw's (in the original version, before Hayden Christensen was airbrushed in). Have you heard David Prowse speaking Darth Vader's lines? Footage prior to sound editing exists of this. Hilarious. No surprise at all that his voice was dubbed. Mr Prowse simply couldn't compete with Mr Jones in the vocal department. Aboyt 30 years ago, a radio play version of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back was produced. The voice of Darth Vader was provided by Brock Peters, a black actor with a voice just as compelling and evocative as that of James Earl Jones. |
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« Reply #52 on: May 29, 2013, 03:54:50 AM » |
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An example of exaggerated Received Pronunciation (RP) would be beautifully illustrated by the British art critic, Brian Sewell.
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« Reply #53 on: May 29, 2013, 08:32:48 AM » |
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James Earl Jones' voice has the same range and similar timbre to Christopher Lee's. Casting is not accidental. ? That is David Prowse, the actor for Darth Vader, whose voice was dubbed over with Jones'. I feel kinda sorry for him. He was just a dummy for the costume - because the face we see at the end of Episode VI is Sebastian Shaw's (in the original version, before Hayden Christensen was airbrushed in). Have you heard David Prowse speaking Darth Vader's lines? Footage prior to sound editing exists of this. Hilarious. No surprise at all that his voice was dubbed. Mr Prowse simply couldn't compete with Mr Jones in the vocal department. Aboyt 30 years ago, a radio play version of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back was produced. The voice of Darth Vader was provided by Brock Peters, a black actor with a voice just as compelling and evocative as that of James Earl Jones. Brock Peters does have an excellent voice. SOme of his most famous credits, for those who don't know, were: 1) Admiral Cartwright in Star Treks IV and VI 2) Captain Sisko's father in Star Trek: DS9 3) Tom Robinson in the screen version of "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
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« Reply #54 on: May 29, 2013, 09:26:04 AM » |
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Umm, Devin, Archim. Irenei is actually American, who became an Oxford don. He's now at St Tikhon's Seminary. Fr Irenei's accent is a hybrid, and not something that anyone could call "British" or "English". Wow, I didn't know that. I know a guy that is American and spent a few years in the UK and now has an English accent. |
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