Just about the most irritating film version of Julius Caesar (out of a pretty poor bunch) is the one (ill)staring Marlon Brando.
The deadly thing is his accent - his "British" accent. Sensibly, most of the Americans in the film keep their accents over the other side of the Atlantic leaving the genuine Brits to this side.
Not Brando - the method gets hold, the real Antony is to be found in a British Accent, so a British Accent he has to have!
It is a faultless British Accent too - not a sound out of place - as rigidly coiffured as Brando's greasy black hair.
And as false and dead.
It is too real - too correct - faultless and, so, faulty.
Real living Brits don't sound like that - the idiosyncrasies and foibles of the individual are missing. It tries so hard to be British it ends up an unintentional caricature. Not 'Allo Allo' caricature - that's funny because it is intentional - and is as much the English laughing at their own inability with languages as anything else. More a bad Elvis impersonator caricature – the costume white and sparkling, the gyrations all there, the exact copy of the voice – all lifeless.
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The deadly thing is his accent - his "British" accent. Sensibly, most of the Americans in the film keep their accents over the other side of the Atlantic leaving the genuine Brits to this side.
Not Brando - the method gets hold, the real Antony is to be found in a British Accent, so a British Accent he has to have!
It is a faultless British Accent too - not a sound out of place - as rigidly coiffured as Brando's greasy black hair.
And as false and dead.
It is too real - too correct - faultless and, so, faulty.
Real living Brits don't sound like that - the idiosyncrasies and foibles of the individual are missing. It tries so hard to be British it ends up an unintentional caricature. Not 'Allo Allo' caricature - that's funny because it is intentional - and is as much the English laughing at their own inability with languages as anything else. More a bad Elvis impersonator caricature – the costume white and sparkling, the gyrations all there, the exact copy of the voice – all lifeless.
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