David_Umstattd
David_Umstattd t1_iya4q3p wrote
Reply to comment by zed857 in TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
Financially speaking in a world of depression and depravity a bar tender would be doing better than in one of wholesomeness and quiet.
Though notice while Nick is better off financially he is absolutely not happier in the alternate dimension.
David_Umstattd t1_iya4f38 wrote
Reply to TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
One of the more important performances in the film.
Nick is the first character who we see a personality change in the alternate dimension. Plus Nick, (unlike most of the townsfolk) is only in one scene before the dimensional shift, so the actor has one scene to establish his character and become likable, so that when the dimensional shift happens we notice the change and are revulsed by it.
Really a good performance.
David_Umstattd t1_iya4e21 wrote
Reply to TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
One of the more important performances in the film.
Nick is the first character who we see a personality change in the alternate dimension. Plus Nick, (unlike most of the townsfolk) is only in one scene before the dimensional shift, so the actor has one scene to establish his character and become likable, so that when the dimensional shift happens we notice the change and are revulsed by it.
Really a good performance.
David_Umstattd t1_iy4zm7q wrote
Reply to comment by stufmenatooba in TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth by [deleted]
When a fish bites your thigh and you wanna blame some other guy that’s Namore!
David_Umstattd t1_iy4zg25 wrote
Reply to comment by WalkerBRiley in TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth by [deleted]
When people give up is when opportunity prospers. Hard to do something that everybody else is trying to do first.
David_Umstattd t1_ivlztm2 wrote
Reply to TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea. by PDRugby
This is A theory though right? We don’t know precisely what the deal with Atlantis is right?
David_Umstattd t1_ivld7h7 wrote
Reply to [Image] Be Yourself by Lioness-
Who you are doesn’t really matter. Who you can be is far more important.
David_Umstattd t1_iu0ywej wrote
Reply to [Image] You are a descendant of stars by ripoutmyfuckwc
No.
You are made of dirt.
Don’t be full of yourself.
David_Umstattd t1_its6x2t wrote
Reply to [Image] Before you start your week... A message that I come back to every single day. by eagleclaw901
Wise man once said:
“Rememba: don’t do drugs
Is too ESPENSIVE”
David_Umstattd t1_itgl2z3 wrote
Reply to comment by FriendoftheDork in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
In the audio book I read the accent is consistent across the narrators. But just with a twinge of that characters narration flair.
David_Umstattd t1_itdhpht wrote
Reply to comment by FriendoftheDork in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
Because nobody thinks THEY have an accent. It’s when other people recall their voice that an accent is given.
David_Umstattd t1_itdhj60 wrote
Reply to comment by N4_foom in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
Ah dang. Reddit acting up again. Removed the other one.
David_Umstattd t1_itaoem0 wrote
Reply to comment by WillSisco in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
You’re missing my point. It isn’t the multiple narrators. It’s the multi narrators that have consistency yet simultaneous uniqueness to the narrator.
So Mina Murray’s narration does a voice for Van Helsing that is the same cadence and tone as when Jonathan Harker’s narration does a voice for Van Velsing, but not only are both these voices consistant they sound unique to the respective narrators (Harker’s impersonation of Van Helsing vs. Mina’s) but this is also done for Harker’s version of Quincy, Van Gelding’s version of Quincy, Mina’s version of Quincy, Harker’s version of Lord Godalming etc.
It’s really amazing and honestly unnecessary but really adds to the cohesion as the multiple narrators can make the various characters easily get lost in the older English.
David_Umstattd t1_it9lrm8 wrote
Reply to comment by plebotamus in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
The audio book is actually one of if not the best audio books ever written. It’s an unimaginable achievement given the several different narrators all sound distinct but are consistent for the most part in their voices for shared characters. Honestly it will blow you mind.
David_Umstattd t1_it9lii2 wrote
Reply to comment by Griffen_07 in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
The thing is Texans are really as cartoony as Quincy is. Right down to our accents being something we can turn on and off when we want to. Which is the kind of little detail that makes it clear Stoker based Quincy off of some real Texan he must have met once.
David_Umstattd t1_it9l8ph wrote
Reply to comment by KindlyOlPornographer in So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
Show don’t tell. You show a person with broken English, you don’t just say “he had broken English” gives him a unique voice.
David_Umstattd t1_it9l4qx wrote
Reply to So I'm listening to Dracula on audiobook, and Van Helsing drives me insane. by KindlyOlPornographer
You might be listening to the wrong Audio Book. You want the one with Tim Curry in it.
As for old Abe, VH speaks broken English, and when heard it sounds very characterful but when read it’s hard I imagine.
During the era most people HEARD books not read them (as books were usually read aloud to groups) thus the writing style is very different before the invention of pulp printing allowed the mass distribution of books at remarkably cheap prices made private reading the main way people experienced books.
David_Umstattd t1_ir6e74u wrote
Reply to Does Vienna wait for us, or is life a race against ourselves? [Discussion] by TreatThompson
The quickest way to depression is living life to try to make YOURSELF happy.
David_Umstattd t1_iya4r5q wrote
Reply to comment by zed857 in TIL the guy who played Nick the bartender in "It's a Wonderful Life," Sheldon Leonard, became one of the most successful TV producers in history, having created the Andy Griffith Show, Dick Van Dyke, among many others. As a tribute, the two main characters on "Big Bang Theory" were named after him. by latchkey_adult
Financially speaking in a world of depression and depravity a bar tender would be doing better than in one of wholesomeness and quiet.
Though notice while Nick is better off financially he is absolutely not happier in the alternate dimension.