Re: The Bad Accent Indicator

Flasherly <gjerrell@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:7eb9b708-549c-4ac2-9eff-430c9c84f227@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

On Apr 29, 6:02 pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
left.com> wrote:

However, Charlie Wilson's War is my first exception to this rule. I
just watched it, where Tom Hanks' accent is terrible, and was clearly
attempted without the assistance of a professional voice coach. The
film was excellent nonetheless, being both energetic and fascinating,
with excellently crafted characters. There were occasional moments
of laugh out loud humor, and lots of cute girls for eye candy. I
especially liked the way Wilson's four, hot Congressional aides were
called "Charlie's Angels," in the closing credits.

Screw the accents. Tom's diacritics would be the last thing I'd look
for faults.

You missed my point. I'm not saying that the bad accent causes the
problems, but that if there are bad accents, the movies is such a
disaster that evereything else is messed up, too.

Playing the role of a shark and one-man army will be
interesting, though. Good to hear it's fascinating, which was my
reception when getting caught in viewing it for an excellent 2-hr.
documentary (the film came out within a couple of weeks of the docu --
History channel, perhaps).

It's Aaron Sorkin's well known machine gun writing style. War stories
are fascinating, and it's equally interesting to see how a war is fought
at the highest levels, when people do nothing but walk around, talk and
plan and spend money. Good time Charlie was (and still is, I guess)
quite a character.
.

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