fake American dialects (Society Listserv?)
Marc Velasco
marcjvelasco at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 24 03:05:39 UTC 2008
for such actors, disregarding their speech, and focusing only on their
dress, would they be considered cross-cross-dressers? perhaps double-cross
dressers, a la 1984? or, by simplifying, and eliminating negating
modifiers, would they merely be dressers?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:
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> At 10:50 PM -0400 6/23/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Marc Velasco <marcjvelasco at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> One of the better jobs (imho) of a fake American accent was English
> actor
> >> Dominic West off of 'The Wire.' He's not merely pulling off 'generic
> >> American' but doing a passable job at the subtle Baltimorean dialect.
> One
> >> episode in series 2, he had to pull off a local Baltimore street cop,
> trying
> >> to imitate his idea of a British accent. Has anyone else ever had to
> >> pretend to be themself? I'm sure it's happened before, but I estimate
> it's
> >> rather rare.
> >
> >Not that but somewhat parallel: Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria,
> >playing a female impersonator.
> >
> and there's a long tradition of the reverse--male actors (e.g. in
> Shakespeare's day) playing female characters who are pretending to be
> men (as in several of the comedies).
>
> LH
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