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― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 5 June 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
did you ever see the what the accents ended up sounding like in life is just a game? i have some great behind the scenes footage of you with mike!
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
argh i found this one of the most annoying things about it!
― harbl, Saturday, June 5, 2010 6:32 PM (1 hour ago)
ayo can someone post a clip of mcnulty or stringer falling into british? i've rescreened (/morbs) part of season one since i learned they were lolbritish but can't tell anything?
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 5 June 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think he did it in season one, iirc it happens a couple times in season 4 & 5. maybe he got lazy. i don't remember stringer ever falling into british. he is one exception i can think of to my general hatred of actors faking another country's english.there is a clip here http://thewire-hbo.com/2007/07/22/english-actors-in-the-wire-would-you-have-guessed/
― harbl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait is that one from season 1? haha
― harbl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
and i can't believe anyone praises his "baltimore" accent, let alone american
― harbl, Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wow that one is really bad!
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
West said in one of the DVD commentaries that he couldn't get the Balmer accent down so he just went with a semi-generic American. The only time we hear McNutty talk in Balmer is that one scene in season 5.
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this is the really bad mcnulty scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_3ZSeHL4g
i think this is pretty much the worst in all five seasons, but there's usually a problem with every other line.
stringer's is almost perfect though.
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this little tidbit:
King Pin Stringer Bell is skilfully played by Hackney actor Idris Elba. According to IMDB, he actually uses his American accent when talking to The Wire fans.
“Wherever I go the real hard-core drug dealers come up to me and confide in me. I almost feel guilty turning around and saying: ‘Ello, mate. My name’s Idris and I’m from London.’ I don’t want to break the illusion.”
― circa1916, Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
an american will start a sentence strong and end it weakly, and unemphasized. a britisher will often start weak and then end strong, raising the pitch at the end as well - which can sound more "musical" or whatever.
as somebody from the west coast of Scotland, a pretty wild accent even for a "Brit", i remember the hilarity my accent caused Californians, not because i started up and went down, but because i went up a down several times throughout a sentence. While they couldn't imitate my vowel sounds or accent they could nail the pitch, wavering so much more than theirs ever would.
McNulty's accent is pretty woeful, although i somehow managed to take a while to work out he was English (in hindsight "snot boogie" tells you all you need to know). Not sure how great Stringer's is. It's consistently american in the way House's is, but i don't know how accurate it is of a black man from inner-city Baltimore (not that the American cast are generally any better for this afaik).
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
and knowing hugh laurie has always made me go "ooooh bullshit" over house (not that i've watched more than a couple of episodes, it outlives its premise after about two).
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
caek i did not, actually! would love to see.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 June 2010 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
House does not sound American. House sounds like nothing.
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 June 2010 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
xp, i sent you an email.
everyone else: if you ever need someone to teach an american accent to a british actor who can do a really weird al pacino impression, but that's about it, then tracer is your man! : )
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
he could also do a frankly amazing walken!! i know that walken is a common party trick but i've never been able to pull it off
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 June 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the walken was actually really good. there's a few lines of straight up pacino and walken in the final thing, but mostly it's just his weird london/jersey (not new)/rhotacism/american thing. great times : )
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't get the email \(;_;)/
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 June 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! i have three or four email addresses for you. i will try one of the others.
― caek, Sunday, 6 June 2010 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
got it!
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 June 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
NY ilxors: This Saturday is your chance to bust a (paintball) cap in Marlo Stanfield's ass - also: Omar, Snoop, Kima & more!
― 5 x 15-second shits, max fart (Pillbox), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rescreened (/morbs)
I can't let this stand. "Rescreened" is (/Alfred).
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe it's just me, but once in a while String sounds almost Cockney.
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Best written show on television among worst closed-captioned on DVD? Small sampling from Season 4:
"Couldn't smoke out who was pulling the strings." as"Wouldn't smoke. Guy was pulling the strings."
"I debriefed""I had to brief"
"was gutted for political reasons""we'll cut it for political reasons"
"Fuck the Bunk""Fuck that bunk"
etc.
At least they don't do the West Wing thing of editing all sentences for brevity, but come on.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 June 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
What did Charlie Brooker make of Season 5?
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 23 August 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i love that the ilx wire thread got so nerdy we are criticizing the closed-captioning
i'm about to watch the finale. feel like i am going for one last visit before pulling the plug on a beloved family member or something
*gulp*
― welcome back ma$ed god (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 9 October 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Peace be with you.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 9 October 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
your hair look good, samosa
― bitchmaid (sic), Saturday, 9 October 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched New Jack City on the plane home from NYC a couple days ago, and there are a few exchanges that are almost identical to bits of dialog in The Wire
― sarahel, Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been watching The Wire on the 101 Network on DirecTv. I never caught it on HBO and never saw the dvds.
It just hit me that that the actor who played Wallace also plays Vince Howard on Friday Night Lights. The episode where he came back to the low rises after leaving his grandmom in the sticks was really a punch in the gut.
― I love cinema. My favorite movies are Citizen Kane and the Boondock Saints (KMS), Saturday, 9 October 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5219462887_b504fd89a4.jpg
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mightygodking.com/images/ac-wire.jpg
miss u this show
― caek, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
think I'm getting all this DVD's for xmas!
― erin brokovich (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
caek that grid is cool!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"you want it to be one way. but its the other way" is prob my favorite line from the whole series.
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I want to go back and watch them all again...again
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"you want it to be one way. but its the other way" is prob my favorite line from the whole series.― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:00 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:00 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it is also a line of deep and abiding truth
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's a hot line - i wish i never watched this show so i could watch it again for the first time
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
always thought it was the weakest of catchphrase lines, tbh
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
how is avon neutral and string evil??
― j., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Avon has nowhere near the long-range vision and laser focus that String had. Avon just wanted to be the big fish in the pond. String wanted to be the emperor fish of ALL the ponds.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
chaotic neutral is a hard one to pick out for The Wire
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I see someone online picked Ziggy, I like that choice
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but wasn't string trying to go legit at the end? i.e. it wasn't about the evilness of the enterprise but the money
― dayo, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
No but I felt like String was going to keep being String just in a different world: like even when he's going legit, he's going to try to be the corporate bazillionaire and take over the empire. You know? He just had that way about him.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:20 AM (12 minutes ago)
money is the root of ~all evil~
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
What kev said
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know what these categories even mean, is this some nerd thing?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link