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Not the Pointy Hat Trick!!!
OK, so I'm settling into cleaning up and puttering around, so I've just thrown the NPR adapatation of The Two Towers on the player. You all get to be the beneficiaries at a safely vicarious distance. Heehee!
Oh, off to a great start. Boromir dies like he's reading from Shakespeare Lite, and you know, Aragorn doesn't seme particularly sorry to see him go. "Alas!" he says over Boromir's dead face, like he's saying, "O well! No more potato salad." Not exactly upset.
Oh boy, no singing in this version. None. Not manly enough, I imagine. Manly seems to be an issue in this version; there's no way I can picture this lantern-jawed Heston of an Aragorn ever breaking into song. Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Oh yeah, this guy sounds just like Chuck Heston, right around Ben Hur, I'd say.
For some reason, I keep thinking that Tolkien would sound better in Southern tones rather than these mid-continent voices. Eomer would certainly sound natural as a good ol' boy. Or at least Brad Pitt.
DamEh. The Orcs are rather uninspired growly voices. Although there's this one guy who keeps slipping into Peter Lorre and then yanking himself back again. And man, the editing of the dialogue is clumsy. They keep one half of the bed-and-breakfast reference, but not the other. Yeesh.
ETA: Treebeard! Oh my god, I could swear that's James Gregory. With an echo effect. You know, that's not what I'd expect a tree to sound like. Despite the unexpected voice, though, I rather like this Treebeard. He has a sort of slightly distracted, philosophical melancholy. There are moments when you can hear that his priority is not the world of hobbits or men.
OMG, the Ents sound like a zombie chorus! When they break the walls of Isengard, I fully expect them to start growling Brains! BRAIIIINSSSS!!!
ETA: Hahaha. Spike pointed out to me last night that Sah-ROO-min (cerumen) is actually earwax. Heehee. Now I can't take this guy seriously.
ETA: Eek! When Gandalf makes Leh-GOH-luss's arrow carch fire, it sounds like a shot from a phaser! Heeheehee. Video game sound FX! Is this Gandalf or Obi-Wan? He does sound at times like he's trying to be Alec Guinness. Hee. Oh, how I do love good cheesy flavor...
ETA: It's one thing to hear an unabridged reading like Rob Inglis', but there's nothing like a complete dramatization of one of Tolkien's looooong dialogue scenes to put across just why you gotta edit for actors. Gandalf keep saying, "OK, we gotta go", and one of the Three Hunters keeps interrupting, "But tell us how..." Damn, they sound like a passle of little kids begging for a story. Oh, alright, alright, one more story. But then you have to go to school!
ETA: Ahaha, Grima sounds like a two-bit Igor from an old Hammer film.
ETA: Theoden has the same crotchety ol' guy sound are Gandalf and Suh-ROO-min. When Gandalf exhorts him to step outside his doors! he actually mutters, "Oh, alright, alright", like he's being cajoled to take his iron supplement.
Woohoo! They're about to ride off to Helm's Deep. The Rohirrim cheering Theoden sound like a bunch of drunk football fans. Rahhhh! Aaaah, raaaah!! Yay, King! Where's the beer???
ETA: Yay, orcs! They're a rowdy bunch. Some of them are going arrrrghghghg!! like zombies, and others are all Raaahhhh! ala rowdy drunk guys, and some of them are, oddly enough, cackling like the Wicked Witch of the West. Makes for a great chaotic sound. Of course it's a bit undercut by the cheesy Star Trek-style fight music.
More forthcoming.
When I mentioned to Spike that I was listening to this adaptation, and that it wasn't exactly steller, she got this look of horror and said the NPR adapatations were always awful. Apparently, this is not a unique experience. *wibble*
Oh, off to a great start. Boromir dies like he's reading from Shakespeare Lite, and you know, Aragorn doesn't seme particularly sorry to see him go. "Alas!" he says over Boromir's dead face, like he's saying, "O well! No more potato salad." Not exactly upset.
Oh boy, no singing in this version. None. Not manly enough, I imagine. Manly seems to be an issue in this version; there's no way I can picture this lantern-jawed Heston of an Aragorn ever breaking into song. Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall. Oh yeah, this guy sounds just like Chuck Heston, right around Ben Hur, I'd say.
For some reason, I keep thinking that Tolkien would sound better in Southern tones rather than these mid-continent voices. Eomer would certainly sound natural as a good ol' boy. Or at least Brad Pitt.
DamEh. The Orcs are rather uninspired growly voices. Although there's this one guy who keeps slipping into Peter Lorre and then yanking himself back again. And man, the editing of the dialogue is clumsy. They keep one half of the bed-and-breakfast reference, but not the other. Yeesh.
ETA: Treebeard! Oh my god, I could swear that's James Gregory. With an echo effect. You know, that's not what I'd expect a tree to sound like. Despite the unexpected voice, though, I rather like this Treebeard. He has a sort of slightly distracted, philosophical melancholy. There are moments when you can hear that his priority is not the world of hobbits or men.
OMG, the Ents sound like a zombie chorus! When they break the walls of Isengard, I fully expect them to start growling Brains! BRAIIIINSSSS!!!
ETA: Hahaha. Spike pointed out to me last night that Sah-ROO-min (cerumen) is actually earwax. Heehee. Now I can't take this guy seriously.
ETA: Eek! When Gandalf makes Leh-GOH-luss's arrow carch fire, it sounds like a shot from a phaser! Heeheehee. Video game sound FX! Is this Gandalf or Obi-Wan? He does sound at times like he's trying to be Alec Guinness. Hee. Oh, how I do love good cheesy flavor...
ETA: It's one thing to hear an unabridged reading like Rob Inglis', but there's nothing like a complete dramatization of one of Tolkien's looooong dialogue scenes to put across just why you gotta edit for actors. Gandalf keep saying, "OK, we gotta go", and one of the Three Hunters keeps interrupting, "But tell us how..." Damn, they sound like a passle of little kids begging for a story. Oh, alright, alright, one more story. But then you have to go to school!
ETA: Ahaha, Grima sounds like a two-bit Igor from an old Hammer film.
ETA: Theoden has the same crotchety ol' guy sound are Gandalf and Suh-ROO-min. When Gandalf exhorts him to step outside his doors! he actually mutters, "Oh, alright, alright", like he's being cajoled to take his iron supplement.
Woohoo! They're about to ride off to Helm's Deep. The Rohirrim cheering Theoden sound like a bunch of drunk football fans. Rahhhh! Aaaah, raaaah!! Yay, King! Where's the beer???
ETA: Yay, orcs! They're a rowdy bunch. Some of them are going arrrrghghghg!! like zombies, and others are all Raaahhhh! ala rowdy drunk guys, and some of them are, oddly enough, cackling like the Wicked Witch of the West. Makes for a great chaotic sound. Of course it's a bit undercut by the cheesy Star Trek-style fight music.
More forthcoming.
When I mentioned to Spike that I was listening to this adaptation, and that it wasn't exactly steller, she got this look of horror and said the NPR adapatations were always awful. Apparently, this is not a unique experience. *wibble*
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Thanks for the blow by blow. I am still snorting over Eomer as a good old boy 'cause in one of my favorite AUs he is a cowboy - not the same, but still appreciable!
((hugs))
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AHAAHAHAHAA! Oh, that's awesome. :-) Please tell me you're kidding about "Le-GOH-luss." Please?
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*snort*
Priceless! Thanks!