Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: The Aviator - Accents, as usual

Yesterday I watched "The Aviator". I found it very very good.
Some points that are relevant and may be of interest here:
1) I found Cate Blanchett's accent astonishing. What would Mrs. K. Hepburn
have said? Maybe she wasn't so excentric as her characters, though I, for
one, don't know; then again the accent is simply amazing. If I didn't speak
as I speak, I'd speak like Katherine Hepburn, although maybe it doesn't
work with a man.
2) How do you find Kate Beckinsale's American accent? I think it's very
good. Perhaps a little too "clean" somewhere, but maybe it's just because I
know she's English, and I'm not sure it makes her less credible as an
American woman.
(I find her very pretty. Is this ot?)
To whom it may concern: I've opened threads about "The Aviator" on
alt.usage.english and it.arti.cinema as well.
Bye, FB
-- 
Domanda: "Era il figlio di Iside e Osiride".
Risposta: "Thor".
(quiz televisivo)

 Some points that are relevant and may be of interest here:
Oh my, has nobody seen that film?
[...]
Bye, FB
-- 
"Oh oh... Oh my God. My parents are having an affair."
(Gilmore Girls - 512)

Oh my, has nobody seen that film?
Come si dice "Leonardo di Caprio mi sta sulle scatole"?
saluti,
Peltio
cui perņ č piaciuto "Romeo+Juliet", ma solo per via di Shakespeare.

 Come si dice "Leonardo di Caprio mi sta sulle scatole"?
QUOTE (myself on it.arti.cinema)
Credo che Leonardo DiCaprio sia semplicemente straordinario. A mio avviso č
uno dei tre o quattro attori piů bravi al mondo.
UNQUOTE
(smiling face)
Do watch that film. Such pictures (I felt like using the word
"pictures"...) don't come along all the time. 
The only other film with LDC that I've seen is "Catch me if you can", if
I'm not mistaken. He was good there as well -- the part itself being much
less demanding, though --, but the overall quality of the film is dubious.
In "The Aviator" there's a script, there are lines, there are ideas.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with
education?" "She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of
respectability" "It is obviously the same person".
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)


You haven't seen "Gangs of New York"? I thought LDC was pretty good in
that film. In case you didn't know, it is the very brutal story of the
Irish gangs of the mid-19th century which fought for domination of the
infamous area of New York City once known then as the "Five Points",
which is now part of New York's Chinatown.
http://urbanography.com/5_points/
Joe from Massachusetts

 You haven't seen "Gangs of New York"?
No. I might, though it doesn't seem like a film I'd like.
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Bye, FB
-- 
Una volta ho comprato un salmone all'Ikea.
Sono arrivato a casa.
Era da montare.
(citato da Alessandro "Il Patriarca" Valli su
it.cultura.linguistica.italiano)

No. I might, though it doesn't seem like a film I'd like.
I didn't think much to it, very violent. That wasn't the reason I
didn't like. I just wasn't interested in the story or the characters.
Although plenty of people I've spoken to said they enjoyed it, each to
their own. I get the impression that periodic dramas are the type of
films you prefer. like "remains of the day", I've seen that in your
sig.

didn't like 
it.

 sig.
I do like such films. Generally, I like films where people speak in decent
accents, when they're British.
Ciao, FB
-- 
Locked from the inside. That can only mean one thing, and I don't know what
it is.
(Murder by Death)

"jonny" <j...@jj.jj> wrote in message
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Until September 2001, three summer days in 1863 were the most
frightening in the history of New York City. The New York City draft
riots were a direct result of the National Conscription Act, which
made virtually all able-bodied men eligible for the draft, but allowed
the well-to-do to escape service in the Union Army by paying a $300
fee. Those three days remain the worst civil disturbance in American
history. Combine this with police corruption, the indifference of
politicians, and the massive Irish immigration resulting from the
famine, all boiling over in the kettle of the worst slum in the United
States, and you get "Gangs of New York" - a violent slice of American
history which many would prefer to avoid.
I wouldn't compare it to "Remains of the Day". More like "Howard's
End".  ;>)
Joe from Massachusetts
Joe from Massachusetts