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  • #61
    Originally posted by chegitz guevara


    That's Hollywood for you.
    Sometimes they try to get it right in the movies but that isn't what movies are about anymore than the sky was swirling when Van Gogh painted Starry Night. The idea is to look right to the viewer without interfering with anything in the movie. However if you watch Tombstone you will see that Val Kilmer worked on a soft Southern accent for Doc. Holiday. It was partly a copy of historian Shelby Foote I think but it was also the work of a coach they hired to get the accent.

    Then they pull crap like like when Robert Redford worked to develop a good German accent for that movie set in Africa that he was in. He showed up ready to go and not sound American for the first time in his carear and the director made him speak American.

    Sean Connery doesn't adjust at all, ever, whether the movie is Hollywood or Brittish. Michael Caine brags (correctly I think) that he managed to overcome objections to speaking in his own cockney accent. He did however use a different accent in two parts when it was called for. Upper class Brit in his first major role in Zulu and a darn good German accent when he played a German mercenary during the 30 years war in The Last Valley.

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    • #62
      I have to make one statement: Some of you people had the guts to bring up my name in this thread and you will regret that dearly.
      For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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      • #63
        Originally posted by mindseye
        For instance, I've noticed that my eye contact with other gay guys is usually a split second longer than that with straight guys.
        That's also the case between men and women who are interested in each other.

        Originally posted by mindseye
        Gaydar can get messed up when you cross cultural lines.
        That reminds me of a joke about a city dweller "chasing" after a farmer because their zones have different sizes. People in the city have a smaller social zone, so the city person keeps moving forward. The farmer on the other hand has a much bigger personal zone that the city person keeps entering, so he keeps backing up.

        Originally posted by mindseye
        Also, straight guys have a lot more physical contact here, so if you see two guys holding hands in public, or hanging around each other's necks, it probably means they are just good friends. Actually, it's quite nice to see, it's too bad American guys have so little physical contact with their friends - seems unnatural.

        Men here don't hold hands but apparently Chinese men in the bygone ages did.
        (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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        • #64
          Originally posted by Fez
          I have to make one statement: Some of you people had the guts to bring up my name in this thread and you will regret that dearly.


          I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. Really.
          Tutto nel mondo è burla

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Ethelred
            Sounds like you must enunciate more with the back of your tongue instead of the front like Brits do for movies and TV. Where and how you place your tongue and the shape of the back of the mouth and throat are main items in English accents, this even effects the rhythm of speech as it will slow down when the back of the tongue is doing more of the work possibly because of the greater mass and thickness involved.
            You're quite right- it all comes from the back of the throat and with a tendency to drawl. It's actually a lot closer to many American accents than the stereotypically clipped and precise "BBC English".

            It always confuses Americans. They tend to look puzzled and ask me if I'm Irish. In fact it's a lot less rounded and lilting than most Irish accents, and less nasal than many US ones (particularly North-Eastern US accents).
            The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Urban Ranger
              Yuck, Wittlich, your avatar is getting more and more awful all the time
              Touche' UR...is this one any better?
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              • #67
                It is terrible Wittlich. I think I am going to have a seizure
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Boris Godunov




                  I'm sure they're quaking in their boots. Really.
                  Whatever.

                  Anyways, why bring up my name? Why?
                  For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                  • #69
                    Why not? Like the women you´re part of a very select group here at Poly...
                    I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Kamrat X
                      Why not? Like the women you´re part of a very select group here at Poly...
                      Oh you are right, I am center right-wing... so yes I am part of a select political group here... but what does that have anything to do with this thread?
                      For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                      • #71
                        Oh don't be so coy Giancarlo, you know what they are getting at
                        Speaking of Erith:

                        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                        • #72
                          What Provost said...
                          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                          • #73
                            No, I really don't know.
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #74
                              Well, Boris is gay. MrFun is gay. red_jon is gay. See where this is going?
                              I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                              • #75
                                Isn't coyness something that gay men like?
                                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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