language in film

[Beverly Flanigan]

What's the name of the film???

At 12:41 PM 10/31/01 +0000, you wrote:
> From salon.com's review of the Coen Brothers' new film:
>
>On the surface
>it's purest formalism: masterful black-and-white cinematography (by Roger
>Deakins, the Coens' customary co-conspirator), note-perfect character acting
>and period diction. I mean, these guys pay attention to the friggin'
>details:When Doris Crane (played by McDormand, who in real life is married
>to director Joel Coen), the main character's alcoholic and perhaps
>unfaithful wife, gets drunk at an Italian family picnic, she says the word
>"goddamn" with the precise inflection of a mid-century woman unaccustomed
>to cursing. Another character says "the out-of-doors" rather than the more
>contemporary "outdoors."
><end-quote>
>
>Something to look forward to, then.
>
>Lynne, who wishes that Shakespeare films had postvocalic 'r's in them
>
>M Lynne Murphy
>Lecturer in Linguistics
>School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>University of Sussex
>Brighton BN1 9QH
>UK
>
>phone +44-(0)1273-678844
>fax   +44-(0)1273-671320


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