Richard Burton's not on the list. You can't have a list of top cinematic voices that doesn't include Richard Burton. That would be Wrong!
Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.
River ,'Ariel'
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bennett - May 18, 2005 9:00:34 am PDT #2968 of 10002
askye - May 18, 2005 9:12:28 am PDT #2969 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Anyway, we could use a little more cowbell.
There's a song that's being played a lot now called LIttle Sister (I think), a cow bell is featured and I've just now gotten to the point where I can take the song seriously and not flash to that SNL Skit.
Melpomene - May 18, 2005 9:42:19 am PDT #2970 of 10002
Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'
Alan Rickman wasn't on that list. That list is dead to me.
beathen - May 18, 2005 9:47:45 am PDT #2971 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
OMG, I can't believe I didn't think of that! He should be near the top with James Earl Jones.
Mr. Broom - May 18, 2005 9:50:24 am PDT #2972 of 10002
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
So for X3 we've got Vinnie Jones playing Juggernaut, Kelsey Grammer as Beast, and Maggie Grace as a third Kitty Pryde in as many films, almost certain to get a real role this go 'round. Discuss?
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 9:51:37 am PDT #2973 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
26. Peter Lorre - Cinema's first truly menacing voice, the German Lorre sounds more like a snake than a man.
That's probably one of the better descriptions of his voice I've seen. Only Lorre could have me memorize his passionate defense of his compulsion to kill in the original German, which I don't even speak.
shrift - May 18, 2005 10:15:50 am PDT #2974 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
There's a song that's being played a lot now called LIttle Sister (I think)
That's probably "Little Sister" by Queens of the Stone Age, off Lullabies to Paralyze. Er, which is probably more information than you needed, but there you go.
Beverly - May 18, 2005 10:25:11 am PDT #2975 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yes, "turn to page three hundred and ninety-four" neeeeeds to be on that list. Also? Roscoe Lee Browne.
Kathy A - May 18, 2005 10:38:15 am PDT #2976 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
If they're looking for distinctive voices, why didn't they mention Mae West? No one else has ever sounded like her, and I have a personal fondness for her since she was the first celebrity I learned how to imitate when I was still in elementary school. Did a good enough job with the imitation that I was able to use it in an assignment for my drama class in junior high (had the teacher rolling, even if the rather lame double entendres were flying over my classmates' heads).
§ ita § - May 18, 2005 10:48:40 am PDT #2977 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've thought more about Clint Eastwood. Somehow, he's wrapped movies up in his voice. Not just the movie he's in, but Movies. Also, America. JEJ is a talented actor with a sex-on-sticks voice, but the voice itself doesn't say as many consistent things to me across all his roles (and more power to him for it, really).
Mae West's omission is grave.