December 2010
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Tell No One - Kristin Scott Thomas' French
We added one additional T-movie to make it four in one day: the French adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller Tell No One. Excellent - all the better because it didn’t get made in Hollywood, keeping it a bit more gritty and holding the mysteries off until the end, just like Coben’s writing. Francois Cluzet was outstanding in the lead role - think of him as the good looking...
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Three-T Movie Day!
True Grit, Tron: Legacy, and Tangled - and we saw them on Tursday in a teatre, or something like that… Not a lot of dialect work to write home about - some strong choices in True Grit that fit into the American Southern accent realm. The young lead (Hailee Steinfeld) was supposed to be from Yell County in Arkansas, and Matt Damon’s LaBoeuf was a Texas Ranger - all of them were well...
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Welsh Accent in "Undertaking Betty"
Undertaking Betty (2002) takes place in a village in Wales and includes quite a few big names, learning the Welsh dialect. Alfred Molina, Brenda Blethyn, and Naomi Watts all do good work overall, but the smaller roles in the film, as well as the ever-amazing Lee Evans, are perhaps the best examples to base your dialect work on. Evans was born in Avonmouth Bristol, which is very close to the...