Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

No one said otherwise! I wish I could pipe up about it.

I know, I'm not mad :)

Would love to see an example of a foreign-language movie or television show featuring a scene in English.

There's a really embarrassing scene in The Marriage of Maria Braun where a black soldier, who's supposed to be an American GI only the actor isn't American, it's Gunther Kaufmann, comes drunkenly through a train car swearing a lot because he thinks the Germans don't understand him. Maria Braun responds "wittily" in English. One of the worst Fassbinder scenes really - the GI is doing a German director's imagined version of how Americans swear, and you can tell he thinks he's really got it down, only he doesn't and it's embarrassing.

Kaufmann's imdb is fucking weird and tragic like p. much everybody who came into Fassbinder's orbit.

In November 2002, he confessed to the murder of his accountant and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He confessed to the deed even though he was not guilty because he wanted to protect his cancer-stricken wife, who had instigated three accomplices to this act. He wanted to spare her a cancer death in prison. Once the actual perpetrators were convicted, he was released and again recanted his confession. He reached a retrial and was acquitted in January 2005. Because of his false testimony two alleged accomplices were innocent of three weeks in custody. Therefore, he was convicted in March of 2006, a probation and a fine.

ha the dialogue in that scene is coming back to me as I research it -- "Lonely Richard, as my friends call ME" - with the stress falling on "me" instead of "friends" and sounding completely wrong and the hard "s" German & Dutch speakers tend to use when pronouncing the word "as"

incidentally I don't get MAD about bad accents, more really interested, like in the way the Dutch always say "as well" as if it were one word (and how they use "as well" but not "too") so as far as I am concerned La Lechera can talk all day about Gus's accent which made me think he didn't actually speak Spanish at all because it sounded so weird to me

Would love to see an example of a foreign-language movie or television show featuring a scene in English.

can't remember the details but there's a terrible scene in pierrot le fou that's supposed to parody american imperialism, it falls totally flat

i'm not MAD either, just disappointed. i have been trying in vain to find a clip so i can provide better examples, but i don't have all day to talk about this, so...carry on...

Would love to see an example of a foreign-language movie or television show featuring a scene in English

This p much describes the whole of 'The Room'

To get back to the previous derail, I've got Malcolm on in the background now and watching Cranston is extraordinary. Every iota of Hal's body language is utterly different to Walter White's. Such an incredibly controlled performer.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if he bags himself an Oscar in the next ten years.

I'm guessing two or three, if he stops slumming in stuff like Rock of Ages.

yeah, I recently saw an episode of Seinfeld with Cranston in it and asked my girlfriend (who I watch breaking bad with) if she recognised him and she had no idea.

I remember seeing that Seinfeld episode in reruns and thinking, Wow, Malcolm's dad was sure getting edgy here!

your girlfriend has amnesia :( xp

Tim Whatley is great, kinda underappreciated in the repertory of Seinfeld characters

not if you're jewish haha

I'm guessing two or three, if he stops slumming in stuff like Rock of Ages.

― the new dire homonomoreboobsativity (Eric H.),

I reckon classier leading roles will start pouring in once BB wraps.

He'll pull off a Tommy Lee Jones in one of the next Bourne movies, no doubt.

Would love to see an example of a foreign-language movie or television show featuring a scene in English. The only thing I can come up with right at this moment is the final scene in "Life Is Beautiful" where the American soldier in the tank says to the Italian kid, "Hello, boy!"

― pplains, Thursday, July 19, 2012 10:40 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0fW-SY7eY

xposts to LL, as I understand it, the writers didnt know where gus came from until the 4th season. They were forced to pick somewhere for the gus/max/hector storyline. I suppose it would be ridiculous to change his accent that late in the game?

i find it hard to imagine cranston getting a lot of juicy film roles post-BB, but i hope im wrong. i just see a lot of dads, grumpy bosses and bad guys in his future

That makes lots of sense. It's not that geographically it was inaccurate -- I don't even really know that I would recognize the exact features of Chilean Spanish even though I listen to it all the time at work. It's just that he is clearly not a native Spanish speaker at all and they didn't train him/his mouth well enough to make that inaudible/undetectable (to me, ol' eagle ears). I've always been interested in the strange world of dialect coaches. I wonder if they have formal linguistics/phonetics & phonology training?

Anyway he's gone now.

I think.

http://www.amctv.com/breaking-bad/videos/sneak-peek-episode-502-breaking-bad-madrigal

preview for e2

*bites tongue*

i have never been able to summon the energy to get angry about bad accents

― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:32 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me neither, unless it's someone trying to do one of my local accents.

― pplains, Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:37 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha yes

That's because you guys aren't linguists! This is my thing.

― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do they make you take a vow to get irritated at bad accents before they hand you the degree

we have to draw the vowel chart for our native language at gunpoint, then we take the vow, then we get the paper

...then you get the women? (scarface, sorry I couldn't help it)

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/id/1410523

sepinwall linked to this on twitter. Aaron Paul in his late teens or early twenties on The Price is Right. Totally perfect.

hah, wonderful!

And here are GIFs!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/aaron-paul-the-best-the-price-is-right-contesta

BOB BARKER BITCHES

THE PRICE IS WRONG BITCH

fkn adorable, yo

that has brightened my day a bit

Julia as Hector "Tio" Salamanca:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/julia-hector-face-web.jpg

(I called her and asked her permission to post that. Not everyone wants their best Hector face on the internet.)

"Look at me, Julia. Look at me."

who?

Dude was very otm to eat the nuggets without the sauces.

"who?"

Fair question. I guess she's always been a bit of a lurker, but she's been here longer than I have. Which is a long damn time.

cajun kickass

forget about julia, who is lydia

She's The Tattooed Lady. Jeez. Keep up.

Franch

i had to imdb but it but OH YEAH the chick from Neverwhere

way, way better than the premiere imo

Heh, I used to sell those rolling pig toys at my previous job.

Skylar / Walt bed scene...gaaaahhhhh could that have been creepier

One of the best cold opens of the whole series. The sauce tasting reminded me of the scene in Mulholland Drive with the espresso. And then it gets even better. And all before the titles.