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Post by Edith S. Baker on Jun 11, 2007 22:33:49 GMT -4
You think it was intentional, then? If it was, that was a brilliant stroke. I would never have expected the character to be played that way. I still find it hard to believe what he was saying, though. I'm not faulting him, really! It's just that I've seen this guy pull off a serial killer describing his method of pulling off his victims' fingernails.  I am watching Laramie project right now. The second scene is the Minister preaching. He is as fundamentalist as they come. I would be creeped out by him. I don't do well with fundamentalists. I am very science oriented. I saw the man preaching, I heard him preaching, but I saw a human being, which I don't usually do. So I think that he is able to give a third dimension to one- or two-dimensional characters. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 23:25:57 GMT -4
Just gonna hazard a guess here, but he grew up in a small Iowa town. Laramie is a smallish city/large town, depending on your POV. He would have just as lkely come across that line of thinking in a small Iowa town as he found in Laramie. So might have been able to draw from that to play that character. JMO, but it comes across as a bit contrived, possibly because it is hard to understand that POV, but it might also be because he had a cold. His reddish eyes and nasally sound made me think he had a cold. One other thing: I don't buy the accent. That's not a Wyoming western accent to my ears, but as Henry Gale himself has said on another occasion, I'm no expert.
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Jun 11, 2007 23:29:51 GMT -4
He had a semisouthern accent. I live in a suburban city that serves both Baltimore and Washington, DC., and I ran across a few people like the reverend. It's scary.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2007 1:19:17 GMT -4
Oh, there are a number people like the reverend where I grew up (South Dakota). They're everywhere actually. Thank goodness, the good people still outnumber the bad. But back to the accent, am I picking a southern lilt in ME's voice? He's spent time in the south, yeah?. And even if he hadn't he might have it just growing up in Iowa. I know most folks don't think of it as the south, but it just north of the south and I notice a southern tone in their version of the so-called colorless Midwestern accent, esp. if you get close to or south of I-80. (I know some Iowans, too. Egad, they're everywhere too! LOL)
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Jun 12, 2007 8:40:02 GMT -4
Actually, I was thinking that perhaps he chose this semisouthern accent because he might have decided that the reverend was a Southerner who spend some time in the north. Hence, he still had some of his accent left.
It would make sense. A lot of fundamental preachers get their degrees in some southern Bible college. Many are actually Southerners.
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Post by HostileNative on Jun 12, 2007 8:57:00 GMT -4
I just rewatched the YouTube version. I got some glimpse of Nestor. I now have a new project. I am going to try to make screencaps of the movie and perhaps upload them tomorrow or the next day. All depends on my workload. But Michael and Nestor fans should be in for a treat, I hope. Woot!  |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Jun 12, 2007 9:07:23 GMT -4
Aside to Megan: I watched the episode instead of making the screencaps. If I have time tonight, I will make them. If not, definitely I will make them tomorrow. After all, what is there to do at 10 pm on Wednesday nights from now on, anyway?
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Post by greenleaf on Jun 12, 2007 9:14:07 GMT -4
I saw this film on DVD (I have bought it in Amazon.com). I too badly know English language to judge Michael's accent. But like to me that Michael once again completely has reincarnated playing the reverend. At once it is visible that his character - the hypocrite. Michael the excellent actor!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2007 11:53:50 GMT -4
Well, greenleaf, I think you nailed it. I think it has to be said that ME achieved the objective, showing the hypocrisy of that belief system, yet making the character seem human. All the rest is just quibbling I guess. Thanks for the insightful posting.
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Post by nissun on Jul 1, 2007 14:44:08 GMT -4
I watched the film yesterday. I don't remember hearing about that story... Maybe just it didn't reach our media as much as it did in the us.
I think it was a well done documentary/film, for such a delicate thing to tell.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2007 23:50:43 GMT -4
It caused quite a sensation and a shock when it first broke. It did sort of focus on the whole homophobic thread that runs through American society. It also drew attention to Laramie, Wyo. I think a lot of people fighting against homophobia did a good job in making sure this didn't come down to an attack on the cowboy way or attitude. Laramie is a nice town. So are a lot of towns in Wyoming. But it is a Western state and that can make it an easy target for people wanting to vent.
The story itself is heart-breaking. I can't imagine anything worse than being left out on the high plains at night, beaten to near death. It still makes me catch my breath.
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Post by rytalias on Jul 2, 2007 11:49:07 GMT -4
Another Michael film i haven't seen  ...yet. |
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Post by Robyn [Emerson-aholic] on Jul 2, 2007 17:07:06 GMT -4
i got this on order, cant wait to see it!! ;D
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...yet.
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