Making A Scene - Favorite Film Clips

[Laodicean]

[Perelandra]

[Belligerent Savant]

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[AhabsOtherLeg]

[Jeff]

What befalls Mullen and his story? The thrilling conclusion here:



Thanks, Ahab. Haven't seen it for 25 years, or something mad like that.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

There's a lot of subtlety in that interrogation, even if it might look cartoonishly BRITISH on first viewing. So much from that era is summed up in one little pause.

"Do you consider yourself a patriot, Mr. ... Mullen?"

He might as well have said: "Ah... Irish, are we?" with a single raised eyebrow.

Leaves you wondering if they would've portrayed the bomb in his flat as a simple gas explosion, or tried to implicate him posthumously in terrorist activities. No doubt they considered all the angles. He was probably too well-known already for the latter option, but they smeared the politician as a Soviet agent earlier in the film, and he was much better known than Mullen.

Anyway, there's a lot of good stuff from those times. TV serials, even BBC ones, used to be much better than films. Come to think of it, they still are.

[justdrew]

hey - the guy in the middle of the three, is there a particular name for the type of accent he has?

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I don't recognise it as coming from a particular region, but regional accents are thrashed out of them at Oxbridge generally, or were (already had been) in those days. It just seems like proper Recieved Pronunciation english to me - Radio 4 english - though he does seem a bit smoother, glidier, softer vocally than the other guy who speaks. Folk from England will know better, though, hopefully. They all sound the same to me, unless they're from Yorkshire or Devon or Cumbria or...

He just talks "posh" as far as I can tell.

There's a near-subliminal "23" on the wall behind Mullen at 5.54 in the vid, for people who like that sort of stuff.

[justdrew]

just reminded me of this fellow's voice...

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Hehehe. Great scene. "What do you know about God ya wire-haired Mick!"

Fwiw, Richard E. Grant has a South African background, from Swaziland originally, so he should sound Afrikaans (it is incumbent upon him to do so) but probably due to his education he's always sounded like a posh English guy - to me and everybody else except you. Just like the guy in the Defence of the Realm vid does. But there is a little twist or flavour to both of 'em's way of speaking. Wonder if it's down to the same thing.

Seems you're able to distinguish by speech alone between a gentleman of England born and a mere latecomer from the dusty veldt drew, which makes you eligible for the Garrick Club old boy.

If that guy had been interrogating you, you could've given him a frightful social drubbing!

EDIT: You mean the guy in the middle of the three interrogating Mullen, or the guy in the middle of the three vids? 'Cos the main guy in the second vid has a sort of educated, deathly dispassionate Yorkshire accent that barely sounds like Yorkshire at all. A "CID" or detectives voice.

[justdrew]

I guess it's this that I'm wondering about, there's three subtypes of RP:

Researchers generally distinguish between three different forms of RP: Conservative, General, and Advanced. Conservative RP refers to a traditional accent associated with older speakers with certain social backgrounds; General RP is often considered neutral regarding age, occupation, or lifestyle of the speaker; and Advanced RP refers to speech of a younger generation of speakers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation

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[Jeff]

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