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has Hugh ever done an American accent? He should for this movie
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Robot Style posted:I always thought it would be interesting to have a D&D movie explicitly take place inside someone's campaign, and to use the fantasy world as a way for the real-world versions of the characters to work through unresolved issues they have with each other. The Gamers: Dorkness Rising might have you covered: https://youtu.be/tOUksDJCijw Pretty fun movie, the infinite bards ploy still gets brought up in my D&D group.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:09
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Come And See posted:The Gamers: Dorkness Rising might have you covered: Can you summarize said ploy? I don't think I'm up to a movie just to find out.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:22
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The Klowner posted:The List
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Mar 3, 2021 07:31
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Beachcomber posted:Can you summarize said ploy? I don't think I'm up to a movie just to find out. Starts around the 59min. One character is tired of being the first to die (by random crits or traps) so he brings 50 copies of the exact same character, tearing each one up as he bites the dust again and again. Eventually the party takes cover from the enemy wizard behind the growing mound of dead bards.
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Mar 3, 2021 07:40
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If they have a necromancer, the bad guy would be in bigger trouble.
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Mar 3, 2021 08:12
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Alan Smithee posted:has Hugh ever done an American accent? He should for this movie Laughing with my friends about the idea of a non-American doing a convincing American accent
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Mar 3, 2021 09:53
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Failed Imagineer posted:Laughing with my friends about the idea of a non-American doing a convincing American accent they are just out of frame laughing too
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Mar 3, 2021 10:01
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Alan Smithee posted:they are just out of frame laughing too I see you've met my friends before
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Mar 3, 2021 10:05
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Hugh Laurie's accent in House is pretty much rock solid, I don't remember him ever slipping up. Hugh Dancy was also really good in Hannibal; you can definitely hear the tics of somebody doing an American accent if you're listening for them, but everybody in that show speaks so portentously that it sounds like everybody is putting on an accent.
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Mar 3, 2021 10:45
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As always, idris Elba is the gold standard
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Mar 3, 2021 10:50
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Failed Imagineer posted:Laughing with my friends about the idea of a non-American doing a convincing American accent Half of Hollywood is Australians. We grow up on USTV and pretty much everyone does American accents (to mock you). The gold standard is Damon Herriman in Justified, in my opinion.
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Mar 3, 2021 11:06
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well why not posted:Half of Hollywood is Australians. We grow up on USTV and pretty much everyone does American accents (to mock you). Hey I'm not American either, I'm Irish, there's plenty of us out there doing great American accents (Daniel Day Lewis*, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy, Fassbender, definitely not Liam Neeson lol). Meanwhile, the reverse scenario is apparently not physically possible. *DDL is dual Brit-Irish tbf Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Mar 3, 2021 11:09
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Neeson tried his best, but wisely gave up on it. Americans absolutely cannot do non-American accents 90% of the time. I can't think of a single time any American has pulled of an Australian accent without it being a joke, so I know what you mean.
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Mar 3, 2021 11:15
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I get it though, we grow up saturated in a stew of American culture, whereas the average American only has cultural referents like ...the Lucky Charms leprechaun and Crocodile Dundee. Still though, it's usually cringeworthy
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Mar 3, 2021 11:18
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Actually I'm gonna caveat Fassbender, because I remember him emotion-shouting as Magneto and the Irish definitely broke through hard. Often he's good though?
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Mar 3, 2021 11:32
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There's exceptions - Meryl Streep managed Australian, and RDJ's Kirk Lazarus character was more or less on point - but it's exceedingly rare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMu_GRAPKrQ This legit does sound akin to Lindy Chamberlain. My friend's mum has nearly the same accent.
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Mar 3, 2021 11:38
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Man, RDJ was a tour de force in that movie. He could have easily phoned it in, but he pretty much committed as hard as his character
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Mar 3, 2021 11:40
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Failed Imagineer posted:Man, RDJ was a tour de force in that movie. He could have easily phoned it in, but he pretty much committed as hard as his character The fact he doesn't break character until the commentary is over is the best
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Mar 3, 2021 11:47
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Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes does a great Southern accent.
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Mar 3, 2021 11:51
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Ehhhh as someone living in the South, Lincoln’s accent borders on caricature because it’s way too broad and he can’t do emotion shouting without breaking it entirely.
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Mar 3, 2021 11:55
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Robot Style posted:I always thought it would be interesting to have a D&D movie explicitly take place inside someone's campaign, and to use the fantasy world as a way for the real-world versions of the characters to work through unresolved issues they have with each other. Snowman_McK posted:That's an episode of IT crowd. Robot Style posted:Community kind of did it a couple of times too, though not with the budget that would allow the in-game portions of the story to be fully realized. ONE YEAR LATER posted:That's every episode of anything featuring DnD.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:37
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Alan Smithee posted:has Hugh ever done an American accent? He should for this movie  (It's a so-so movie, but the scene where he accidentally encounters his English boss while in-character as a mob guy and goes full Goodfellas on him in the Hugh Grant-est way possible managed the rare feat of making me lose it with laughter in a cinema.)
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Mar 3, 2021 14:56
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Gonz posted:Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes does a great Southern accent. "Coral!"
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Mar 3, 2021 14:57
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https://twitter.com/deadline/status/1366787022548000771?s=21
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Mar 3, 2021 15:05
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Didn't this just get a remake a few years ago?
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Mar 3, 2021 15:14
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Chairman Capone posted:Didn't this just get a remake a few years ago? It was called Silent Night and it pretty much only used the idea of a killer dressing like Santa, most of it was based on the Covina Massacre.
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Mar 3, 2021 15:27
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Rochallor posted:Hugh Laurie's accent in House is pretty much rock solid, I don't remember him ever slipping up. wikipedia posted:At first, the producers were looking for a "quintessentially American person" to play the role of House. Bryan Singer in particular felt there was no way he was going to hire a non-American actor for the role. At the time of the casting session, actor Hugh Laurie was in Namibia filming the movie Flight of the Phoenix. He assembled an audition tape in a hotel bathroom, the only place with enough light, and apologized for its appearance (which Singer compared to a "bin Laden video"). Laurie improvised, using an umbrella for a cane. Singer was very impressed by his performance and commented on how well the "American actor" was able to grasp the character. Singer was not aware that Laurie was English, due to his convincing American accent. Laurie credits the accent to "a misspent youth [watching] too much TV and too many movies".
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Mar 3, 2021 15:36
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That seems somehow an extremely House thing to do.
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Mar 3, 2021 17:12
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Bryan singer was probably into the bin laden thing too
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Mar 3, 2021 18:23
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Man, why do so many misspent cinematic/televised memories from my youth have to have Singer involved. 
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Mar 3, 2021 18:33
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Gonz posted:Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes does a great Southern accent. Cuuurrlll
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Mar 3, 2021 18:35
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Pope Corky the IX posted:It was called Silent Night and it pretty much only used the idea of a killer dressing like Santa, most of it was based on the Covina Massacre. Holy poo poo. That guy was a scumbag in every way even before the murders. He loving orphaned 13 children.
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Mar 3, 2021 18:39
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https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1366837559565942787?s=21 Never heard of it before but I’m here for it quote:The story follows a wealthy playboy named Simon Kress who collects dangerous, exotic animals. One day, he stumbles across a mysterious establishment called Wo & Shade, where he purchases a terrarium filled with four colonies of creatures called sandkings, which grow to fill whatever environment they are kept in. Each colony consists of a large female called the maw, and numerous insect-like mobiles that she controls via telepathy. In addition to finding food for the maw, the mobiles also construct a sandcastle around her to protect the maw from invading colonies.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:16
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:Man, why do so many misspent cinematic/televised memories from my youth have to have Singer involved. He almost did the Battlestar Galactica reboot too, though his effort fell apart as a result of 9/11. There's even an episode of the actual Battlestar Galactica reboot where the Cylon design from Singer's version makes an appearance.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:16
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aware of dog posted:https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1366837559565942787?s=21 I remember the Outer Limits episode that adapted this being pretty scary when I was younger, though I understand it changed a number of things from the original story.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:22
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Failed Imagineer posted:I get it though, we grow up saturated in a stew of American culture, whereas the average American only has cultural referents like ...the Lucky Charms leprechaun and Crocodile Dundee. Still though, it's usually cringeworthy True. I also suspect British actors in particular are good at accents because they're so immersed in different ones in their own country, day-to-day. An American actor can glide his whole career speaking with a generalized California American English accent and that's fine. British actors need to grapple with RP, Cockney, West Country, Welsh, Scottish, Belfast, Liverpool, Brummie, Geordie, Yorkshire, etc. and try to do them all justice. An actor from Essex might have to play someone from Glasgow, and there'd be a lot of pissed off Scots if they do it poorly. Tom Holland learning an American accent is maybe the same effort as him learning a Devon one. The US has a lot of regional accents, but it seems like not that many people care that much or even notice when they're missing or wrong. It only really happens when it's something super distinct and recognizable, like Martin Sheen loving up a Boston accent or Nicholas Cage loving up a Southern one. But if some NYC-born actor does a Memphis accent for a character from Georgia, do most Americans care? When Nicole Kidman plays Americans and clearly hits a few words with an Aussie accent, do most people even notice? No idea how this works in Australia, though. I can only vaguely distinguish a NZ accent from an Australian one, so how a Queensland accent differs from a Perth accent is a mystery to me. Sorry, Australians.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:28
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There are a lot of different dialects and accents in the US but nobody really cares and the only ones people tend to go with are Boston, "southern" and the Fargo accent for the northern states. Maybe California, but that just ends up being surfer or valley girl tropes.
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Mar 3, 2021 21:58
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aware of dog posted:https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1366837559565942787?s=21 There's not a lot to the actual story, that summary is pretty much it, so expect a lot of expanding on the source material.
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Mar 3, 2021 22:03
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Gore Verbinski is one of the best directors around. Bring on more stuff from that insane man.
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