On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:11 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote:
> I was using Iannucci solely as an example of someone who didn't want his > cast to have uniformly bad accents (as in Americans do phony-English > accents or Brits mangling American). > > That said, though (and speaking of disappointing series), WTF was up with > "Avenue 5?" I watched every episode and still have no idea of what it was > about. other than its crummy plot. > I adored Avenue 5, and related to the topic of accents, I found the jokes and usage of Hugh Laurie’s accent(s) to be well crafted. > --Dave Sikula > > On Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:51:34 AM UTC-7, Tom Wolper wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:32 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have no objection to revisionism like that; I loved McNamara's "The >>> Favorite," one of my favorite plays of recent years is Lucas Hnath's "A >>> Doll's House, Part 2," and Shakespeare is nothing if not taking old stories >>> and repurposing them for contemporary audiences. There was just something >>> about the British smugness of this one that hit all the wrong notes for me. >>> >>> What was especially puzzling was, since Catherine is an outsider anyway, >>> why make her speak in that British accent? Let her be German via America. >>> It worked for Armando Iannucci in "The Death of Stalin" (another >>> revisionist take that I enjoyed, by the way). >>> >> >> I agree about the accent. One of the innovations of Peter the Great was >> making French the language of the court. So young Catherine can show up >> without knowing a word of Russian and not have any trouble conversing with >> anybody at court. But once she leaves court to engage with the real Russia >> she should be lost. The series makes no effort to make a distinction in the >> languages. >> >> Lanthimos gave the script of The Favourite to McNamara because he thought >> it needed to be lightened up. However much McNamara contributed, he did not >> structure the story or define the characters. And Iannucci is going to come >> up with a product, period. I didn't have expectations of watching something >> at his level when I watched the series. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5df2d55f-d5fe-46ba-acdd-6f21ad133e83o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5df2d55f-d5fe-46ba-acdd-6f21ad133e83o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B28FHvwiQ2gHL-t0k_zy%2BB_nZ6vpmBZMjXxTrofy7Mww%40mail.gmail.com.
