ThisIsTheGirl wrote:Flumm wrote:It's funny you say that TITG. I've been going back checking for updates about the V for Vendetta posters, and I've eneded up watching the V trailer a couple of more times... and as muchas I love what he did with Smith, it just seems to me that his English accent, is more than a little awkward...
Anyways, I don't have any themes or anything running on the desktop, but in the past, the very best one I've found, was a HAL from 2001 based thing...
...hearing "daaaaisy daiisssssy..." as you logged off, really did put a smile on the face.
HAHA - years ago, I used to use "my mind is going" as my shutdown sound!
I haven't heard him attempting an English accent in V, but when I was a very young boy, there was a fantastic TV show about the infamous "Bodyline" test match series between England and Australia back in (I think) the 1930s.
Weaving played the English captain, Douglas Jardine, and he did it pretty expertly. Of course, you must remember that I was about 6 when I saw this - but my dad absolutely loved the program, so as far as I know, he does have some history when it comes to impersonating English accents! Maybe he's lost his touch after all this time, eh?
I really dunno why they never repeat Bodyline, especially after such a great year for English Cricket!
Just kind of continuing a conversation that developed on the Star Wars thread...
If you find the time TITG, I would check out the
trailer again.
Putting the accents aside for a second, one of the things I noticed about watching it again, is how much the imagery, and style feels a lot like the Matrix...
...while the graphic novel obviously stands on it's own merits... there's several moments that ring bells...
For instance there's a clip of a slow close up on V's boots, as he slowly steps into a room... there's an interrogation scene with a defiant prisoner by the institutional badguy... there's the parrell shots of evey in the rain, and V in a firey door way, and in it V looks like Smith from the "It's MY World, MY world...* scene in Revoloutions... the generic uniformed bad guys V is beating the crap out of look and feel a lot like the generic uniformed bad guys from, well you know where... not to mention the shaved head, although I guess that's not quite the same.
I don't know if this is a good or thing or not, but I hope the movie has enough identity to stand up on it's own, in the same way that the source material does.
Just to add some balance, I thought that Portman's performace looked really great from certain beats in the trailer. The shots of her being interrogated, are not in the least bit amature...
And for those among you who enjoy this sorta thing, the hangman game at the V website, is actually pretty entertaining for what it is. It's no Dino Kong... but the way they have designed it is petty cool...
...check it out
here, while we wait for the last poster from the glibs from UGO.
