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Post by Dianne on Sept 8, 2008 5:19:08 GMT -5
One remake that EVERYONE wants him to do is "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". He would make an awesome sea captain. Only difference is I would want some real interaction...snogging!!!!! If ghosts can do it in books then I think they can take some liberties on film. I know there will never be another film like the original but it would be fun to see Gerry do this part. Cool Scottish sea captain. Rough and Gruff and yet so tender too.The only thing I didn't like about that movie was that it was so sad how he had to wait sooo long for her to come to him. I think they could change that too!!! There is a picture out there somewhere that brings this part to mind but I am too tired to search for it! Deb That would be a good one.
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Post by sassenach on Sept 8, 2008 18:10:09 GMT -5
Please, don't shoot me.... It just crossed my mind that he would be an excellent Rhet Butler ( better than Clark Gable, anyway....) given that they would provide him withe an equivalent Scarlet O' Harra. ( Keira Knigtley would be good enough imho, and more emotionally stable than Vivian Leigh)
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Post by Dianne on Sept 9, 2008 5:10:28 GMT -5
Please, don't shoot me.... It just crossed my mind that he would be an excellent Rhet Butler ( better than Clark Gable, anyway....) given that they would provide him withe an equivalent Scarlet O' Harra. ( Keira Knigtley would be good enough imho, and more emotionally stable than Vivian Leigh) HA! They would both have to do a good southern accent.
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Post by sassenach on Sept 9, 2008 5:51:48 GMT -5
I suppose they would....yet could they ? I'm one of those who believe that Gerard can only make one believable accent: Scotish. And i could listen to it 24/7. Still other than the accent he would have been a Rhet Butler like no other !!!
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Post by Dianne on Sept 9, 2008 6:16:08 GMT -5
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Post by Leppardlady on Sept 9, 2008 11:01:24 GMT -5
I love Minnie Driver, she made a great Carlotta in POTO. I think Gerry does a great American accent, but whether he could do a southern accent is another thing. Alan Rickman tried it in Judas Kiss (as did Emma Thompson), but it wasn't the greatest. He did better than Emma, though I think because he has a natural drawl when he speaks in his British accent.
Ever since I watched that YouTube video with Craig Ferguson, I want to see him as James Bond (but only if I can be his Bond girl ;D). Seriously, I know he would be great as Bond.
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Post by torisweettooth on Sept 9, 2008 12:18:19 GMT -5
Did you watch Shattered Sass? He had an American accent in that movie and he did good. I think the easiest American Accent is southern. I have a small one. When I get tired it comes out more. lol
I think GB and Keira would be good for Gone with the Wind. Never thought of remaking it.
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Post by Leppardlady on Sept 9, 2008 14:36:42 GMT -5
I spent three years in Texas and then two in Georgia; it's funny, because I never thought I had the southern accent until I called my sister and she didn't recognize my voice and I still had it six months after I returned to MN and a co-worker asked me if I was from the South because of my accent. It's completely gone now after being here for twelve years now.
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Post by sassenach on Sept 10, 2008 8:04:15 GMT -5
I'm now reading the book "BEFORE THE FACT" mostly known from the Hitchock's movie "Suspicions" with Cary Grant. Gerard could also play to the perfection the role of villain John Aysgarth. (Do not misunderstand me....I REALLY am a Gerard Butler fan.....! ;D) PS Oh my goodnes ! If i read the Bible i would have envisioned him playing Moses ! Oh, i'm insane!
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Post by Dianne on Sept 10, 2008 9:24:57 GMT -5
I spent three years in Texas and then two in Georgia; it's funny, because I never thought I had the southern accent until I called my sister and she didn't recognize my voice and I still had it six months after I returned to MN and a co-worker asked me if I was from the South because of my accent. It's completely gone now after being here for twelve years now. I didn't know you spent time in the south.... My church was originally started by German imigrants and there are still original members so quite a few still speak with a German accent....I was talking to this one gal, I'd say she was in her late 70's and had buried 2 husbands. She said something about Germany and I said, "You're originally from Germany? You don't have and accent." She say, "Well I made a special effort to lose it." I thought wow... She said both my husbands had heavy German accents and she said that one day she said to her second husband....Why don't you say your "W's" properly and talk like they do here? She said, "It's what, not vhat, and why not vhy....won not von....... and she starts making the "W" sound. I thought wow I bet she is hell on wheels...her poor husbands...HA!
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Post by nel on Sept 10, 2008 11:32:53 GMT -5
I've never heard GB do an American accent.
Scottish seems to be one of the hardest accents to lose. You get people who have lived in LA for 40 years, and they still sound like they never left Glasgow.
Straying off topic, people used to criticize Catherine Zeta Jones because her off-duty accent was kind of half-Welsh, half-American. They said she was trying to suppress the Welsh. But don't most people pick up a bit of the accent that's around them?
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Post by sassenach on Sept 10, 2008 13:59:23 GMT -5
They certainly do yet sometimes it's kind of ridicilous. I live in a country that has a lot of people emigrated in US and therefore you can hardly find a family without having someone living there. I remember my uncle and aunt both went to US to join their married children at middle of '70s and lived there till their death more or less. They both were in their late 50s when they emigrate. After a couple of year they came for visit and they were all in American accent..... Give me a break !
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Post by Dianne on Sept 10, 2008 14:26:07 GMT -5
Yeah Sass, like I told you we have a lot of Greeks living in the Detroit area. There is a beautiful Greek church next to my daughters school.
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Post by Dianne on Sept 10, 2008 14:31:59 GMT -5
I've never heard GB do an American accent. Scottish seems to be one of the hardest accents to lose. You get people who have lived in LA for 40 years, and they still sound like they never left Glasgow. Straying off topic, people used to criticize Catherine Zeta Jones because her off-duty accent was kind of half-Welsh, half-American. They said she was trying to suppress the Welsh. But don't most people pick up a bit of the accent that's around them? You are right Nel, I think it is easy to pick up a slight accent when you live in a place for a long time or even just a short time...I mean you hear it everyday and I think there is a part of us that wants to fit in with the people we live around and whether you do it on purpose or not I believe you are going to pick up the local accent. Hey Leppard....do you talk at all like the people for the movie Fargo? A lot of Dutch originally settled in that area and you can really hear it in the accent there. Fargo is a great movie by the way.... In a couple of interviews Gerry says a few words how American's would pronounce them. I think on of the biggest differences between English vs American accent is the way we say words that have 'ar' in them like car, far, tar....we tend to say are very flat sounding and over pronouncing that 'r' sound.
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Post by nel on Sept 10, 2008 14:39:05 GMT -5
Fargo is a great movie by the way.... Yah, real good.
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