I don't know... Interesting question though. But maybe it's because nobody could ever hear me talk and think "Phoenix?"
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
Willow ,'Help'
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erikaj - Jan 24, 2007 11:33:18 am PST #7179 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Kathy A - Jan 24, 2007 11:36:55 am PST #7180 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Stephen Colbert decided at an early age (in his pre-teens, IIRC) to replace his South Carolina accent with a General Standard one just because he was aware of the stereotype of Southern = Stupid.
erikaj - Jan 24, 2007 12:03:48 pm PST #7181 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Wow...he did amazingly at it. Except for hearing him say "I'm from SC"I never would have thought so. I hope I don't sound like he had facial surgery for a cleft palate or something.
DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 1:40:01 pm PST #7182 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. (Word of the day) I was just reading an interview with Henry Selick (from 2005) and they were considering doing the Coraline movie as CG instead of stop-motion. I hate that!
But apparently even a crapass CG movie will make much more money than a very good (Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride) stop-motion.
Gris - Jan 24, 2007 1:47:02 pm PST #7183 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Based on my raising in the South, we knew we had Southern accents. At least, we knew that the standard TV accent was Not Ours, and that we were considered the "different" ones.
My personal accent was always quite "neutral" in comparison to my peers, so I was a bit surprised to discover that I actually did drawl quite a bit, something I really only figured out when I went to Boston for a summer and my friends called me Bill Clinton. Now, however, I am very rarely pegged as a Southerner - four years in California and two in NYC smoked it out completely.
Jessica - Jan 24, 2007 1:55:36 pm PST #7184 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Going to college in the midwest made my mother's Cincy accent come out of lurkdom and take over my entire vocabulary, and I could definitely hear the difference. Moving back East has mostly gotten rid of it.
But apparently even a crapass CG movie will make much more money than a very good (Were Rabbit, Corpse Bride) stop-motion.
Crapass CG movies tend to be "hipper" than stop-motion animated ones, and so will attract a larger audience of kids and teens. Stop-motion animation looks like art and rarely features the kind of lame pop culture references masquerading as jokes (yes, Shrek, I'm looking sternly at you) that today's young people seem to like. Stoopid young people.
Theodosia - Jan 24, 2007 3:02:18 pm PST #7185 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Particularly when CG movies are trying harder and hard to look convincingly 3D, which of course the stop-motion ones have in spades.
DavidS - Jan 24, 2007 3:14:48 pm PST #7186 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Particularly when CG movies are trying harder and hard to look convincingly 3D, which of course the stop-motion ones have in spades.
Flushed Away (which Emmett and I enjoyed) was a CG movie done by Aardman to look like a Wallace and Gromit-ish movie.
Hayden - Jan 24, 2007 3:31:51 pm PST #7187 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
When I go visit Alabama, I come back sounding pretty country, but generally I have a mild drawl at best. Since many of the newscasters where I grew up didn't have the Newscaster Accent, it still sounds like an accent rather than normalized English to me.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 25, 2007 4:07:03 am PST #7188 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Flushed Away (which Emmett and I enjoyed) was a CG movie done by Aardman to look like a Wallace and Gromit-ish movie.
I heard (a link here, I think) the main reason they went CG with that was because there was so much water in the story, and emulating water is one of the things that stop motion has a serious problem with.