Re: Too few Asian Voice Actors
- From: Captain Nerd <cptnerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:02:01 -0400
In article <11j8r3dilpikj22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Meursalt <o4tq5mp02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Relic watched a cat walk across the keyboard, randomly typing the
> following on Anno Domini 9/23/2005 3:26 AM:
>
> > Essentially, if I can't see the actor's real face, the dialect
> > would probably bother me. I myself tend to wince everytime
> > I hear some obviously non-Kentuckian try and lampoon
> > the hill-folk (I was born in Ohio but my parents both
> > came from Kentucky, and had the accent to prove it).
> > So I'd just as soon prefer that a voice actor stick
> > with their own accent instead of trying to force an
> > accent to demonstrate ethnicity. Just my 2 cents
>
> I have to agree with you here - it's a pet peeve of mine I guess. When
> Forrest Gump was released, the entire Southeastern US collectively lost
> any respect we may have had for Tom Hanks' acting skills. At first we
> were like "Where the HELL is this yokel supposed to be from? Maybe this
> is how they talk in rural Cali or something..." Then when we - ok, I -
> when I found out he was supposed to be from the same place I was, I just
> shook my head and prepared for the longest three hours of my life.
>
> On the other hand, some actors (voice and otherwise) can pull this kind
> of thing off. Before filming Con-Air, Nicholas Cage showed up at the
> Waffle House in my hometown, about 3-4 miles from my house. He picked up
> a random redneck there who recognised him, took the guy out drinking,
> and hung out with him all night shooting the shit, all for the purpose
> of research. In the original Con-Air script, the main character was
> actually supposed to be from my hometown, although that detail was
> removed before the movie was filmed.
I tell you, the best mountain accent I've hear by a non-mountaineer
was in a B-movie called "Next of Kin" some years ago. And it wasn't
Patrick Swayze, the star, it was this guy I'd never heard of called
Liam Neeson. He played a character called "Briar Gates", and I swear
I thought they'd found him on the streets of my hometown in Kentucky.
He looked and sounded just like guys I'd gone to high school with,
in fact I thought he was the only original Kentuckian in the whole
movie!
Imagine my shock when I saw him years later in interviews where he
used his own voice...
BTW, I thought the intended plot of "Next of Kin" was interesting,
a Chicago Mob family getting into conflict with a tight-knit clan
from up in the hollers, but the execution of the movie, well, if
you see it, bear in mind a phrase from the lead character: "You
ain't seen bad yet, but it's comin'."
Cap.
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