timcostello1
Joined Jul 2005
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Can somebody please re-assure me that the dialogue in this film was mostly un-intelligible. Particularly in all the scenes involving Forerst Whitaker but not excluding Jude Law, how different from 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'.
This is a growing annoyance in a lot of movies nowadays and is not a problem with the audio soundtrack. Surely a Dialogue Coach or even the Director should notice this happening as he listens back to each scene? Incidentally, the films of Marlon Brando, a famous 'mumbler', are still crystal clear so it is definitely an affectation by the actors who probably heard that if you slur your words you are using 'the method'. How mistaken they are, so come on folks, stop your silly galloping through your lines as I am sure what you intend to say is fairly important.
Otherwise the film wasn't bad! Harry Lime, Dublin.
This is a growing annoyance in a lot of movies nowadays and is not a problem with the audio soundtrack. Surely a Dialogue Coach or even the Director should notice this happening as he listens back to each scene? Incidentally, the films of Marlon Brando, a famous 'mumbler', are still crystal clear so it is definitely an affectation by the actors who probably heard that if you slur your words you are using 'the method'. How mistaken they are, so come on folks, stop your silly galloping through your lines as I am sure what you intend to say is fairly important.
Otherwise the film wasn't bad! Harry Lime, Dublin.
Is there nobody on movie sets today who is in charge of speech patterns and standards?
A friend of mine, in the relatively small Irish Ardmore Film Studios, was usefully employed for years as both a Speech (accents) Coach AND as a 'Time Hawk'. His job there was to watch out for actors using modern phrases and inflections in period movies.
It is a pity he wasn't working on the set of 'Mad Men'which is littered with mistakes which ruin the whole 1960s feel.
Several actors use the 'raising query' way of talking of todays annoying teenagers, making every statement sound like a question: 'We went to the Mall today, to chill-out' is spoken as 'We went to the Mall today? To chill-out?". The Mad Men are not the only culprits as I have heard this way of talking even in BBC period dramas!
Frequent use of the popular phrase: 'You know what?' which precedes the most banal statement, such as: 'You know what? I won't have a drink, thank you'.
Other than that, the script in 'Mad Men' is by far the best I have ever heard on a TV series. The obscure, evasive and pithy way that real people speak is perfectly captured. The long silent spaces and the 'nod is as good as a wink' are used beautifully in this drama which otherwise perfectly captures the era I grew up in. To really see what can be done, to exactly capture a past time, put 'The Key to Reserva' into the Google search box and be prepared to be rendered speechless......
Tim Costello, Dublin.
A friend of mine, in the relatively small Irish Ardmore Film Studios, was usefully employed for years as both a Speech (accents) Coach AND as a 'Time Hawk'. His job there was to watch out for actors using modern phrases and inflections in period movies.
It is a pity he wasn't working on the set of 'Mad Men'which is littered with mistakes which ruin the whole 1960s feel.
Several actors use the 'raising query' way of talking of todays annoying teenagers, making every statement sound like a question: 'We went to the Mall today, to chill-out' is spoken as 'We went to the Mall today? To chill-out?". The Mad Men are not the only culprits as I have heard this way of talking even in BBC period dramas!
Frequent use of the popular phrase: 'You know what?' which precedes the most banal statement, such as: 'You know what? I won't have a drink, thank you'.
Other than that, the script in 'Mad Men' is by far the best I have ever heard on a TV series. The obscure, evasive and pithy way that real people speak is perfectly captured. The long silent spaces and the 'nod is as good as a wink' are used beautifully in this drama which otherwise perfectly captures the era I grew up in. To really see what can be done, to exactly capture a past time, put 'The Key to Reserva' into the Google search box and be prepared to be rendered speechless......
Tim Costello, Dublin.
They say that a person is changed, for better or for worse, by everything they see. I believe in that dictum now, having suffered through this pointless and improbable waste of film stock. There was more merit in the empty sprocket holes of the 35mm film expended so pointlessly in shooting 'Flightplan'. But, above all, there were more holes in the plot than in that precious film stock.
My family could see the ever-growing aging process etching into my beautiful features, minute by minute, as this movie wended its weary way. They said it was like watching a nature film of speeded-up action as the lines of suffering spread over my face. When it comes time to go to St.Peter I intend to demand those two hours back. However my eyebrows did get a great workout as they constantly shot up and down in incredulity at the factual liberties taken in the film.
'Flightplan' sells itself as a thriller, not as a satire or comedy. Yet the only thrill I felt was the regular appearance of the 'end-of-part' captions denoting the arrival of, possibly, some exciting and believable commercials as I watched it on TV. The storyline in a true thriller has to be at least just about possible but this cardboard film contained not one thrill, only a sense of wonder at the waste of all that selfsame cardboard in constructing the body and engines of the aircraft mock-up, a description that summarises this movie.
My family could see the ever-growing aging process etching into my beautiful features, minute by minute, as this movie wended its weary way. They said it was like watching a nature film of speeded-up action as the lines of suffering spread over my face. When it comes time to go to St.Peter I intend to demand those two hours back. However my eyebrows did get a great workout as they constantly shot up and down in incredulity at the factual liberties taken in the film.
'Flightplan' sells itself as a thriller, not as a satire or comedy. Yet the only thrill I felt was the regular appearance of the 'end-of-part' captions denoting the arrival of, possibly, some exciting and believable commercials as I watched it on TV. The storyline in a true thriller has to be at least just about possible but this cardboard film contained not one thrill, only a sense of wonder at the waste of all that selfsame cardboard in constructing the body and engines of the aircraft mock-up, a description that summarises this movie.