Winners, Bad Accent Contest. HONORABLE MENTION to Leslie Monstres for All fantasy accents are British / Nobody does New Zealand. Which is actually really interesting. How many movies are set in New Zealand, or have Kiwi characters, that this is a thing? Im not being snarky here; I really dont know, and would like to. Is the All Kiwis are Australian thing kinda like the All Americans are Dan Rather / All Britons Speak BBC thing that foreign actors tend to do in those countries? Considering that most American actors cant get Southern accents right, even though they live here, its fun to think of all the permutations of that overseas. If you dont like the British = fantasy thing, though, I can suggest a cure: Conan the Barbarian, either version. Your prize: This rendition of Beowulf in the original. (https://youtube/watch?v=_K13GJkGvDw) THIRD PRIZE to Tiffany Ann Chan for Rosie Perez in anything. I thought that kind of thing was banned under the Geneva Convention, but evidently not. Your prize: Nails on a chalkboard. SECOND PRIZE to Leslie Monstres for the un-inventive cursing in any and all sci-fi. Gorram in Firefly, frack in Battlestar Galactica, etc. Also the very bad Chinese in Firefly. [Side rant: Chinese just pisses me off. Well, ok, Chinese + Political Correctness pisses me off. You see, Chinese is a tonal language. It doesnt transliterate into English. Thus, calling the man Jiang Jieshi is no closer to his actual name than the old school Chiang Kai-Shek. Which is what he called **himself**. In English, which he spoke fluently. It is, therefore, LESS respectful of the mans heritage to foist Jiang Jieshi on him, plus it confuses the hell out of everybody. And I assure you that the Chinese themselves do not care -- they know Chinese doesnt transliterate, and vice versa. You think they waste time trying to approximate English names? Heres Barack Obama in phonetic Chinese: Měiguó zǒngtǒng àobāmǎ You figure it out. (One of my teaching fields is Modern East Asia, and this drives me bonkers).] Anyway, your prize: An Esperanto dictionary, complete with made-up curse words. FIRST PRIZE to Lynn Evans for Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Ahhh, the classic. Nicely done. [Can I have another side rant? Of course I can! Its my contest!!! Anyway, accents: Pick ONE. For the whole movie. And while Im sure my British friends get tired of the all bad guys have English accents rule, at least its consistent. Nowadays, it seems like every actor uses his/her natural speaking voice, and only the extras, who often ARE from whatever country theyre filming in, have to do the accent. So you get a movie like Valkyrie, where Tom Cruise plays Tom Cruise playing a Nazi, alongside Kenneth Branagh in all his hammy Oxbridge glory, with Thomas Kretschmann, who IS German, there to provide the verisimilitude. Or Enemy at the Gates -- the Russians are British, the Germans are American, and Ron Perlman is, umm, there. Look, yall -- if Dominic West and Idris Elba could do flawless American over the course of an entire tv series, the rest of you can at least have a go at German or Russian or whatever for two hours. Thanks]. Thanks, yall! See you Monday.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:13:32 +0000
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