David_Umstattd

David_Umstattd t1_iya4r5q wrote

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.

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David_Umstattd t1_iya4q3p wrote

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.

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David_Umstattd t1_iya4f38 wrote

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.

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David_Umstattd t1_iya4e21 wrote

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.

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David_Umstattd t1_itaoem0 wrote

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.

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David_Umstattd t1_it9l4qx wrote

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.

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