More Fun with Subtitles
Aug. 19th, 2004 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyClash of the Titans is dull, so I tried watching a couple of scenes in French. I can just barely get the gist: "I feel sorry for the bad guy. Me too. I love you. Me too." Said bad guy is played by Barnum from Mind of Evil, putting in a smashing performance. An interesting effect: the blankness of Hamlin's performance as Perseus is even more obvious when you can't quite follow his dialogue, and try to watch his face for clues. Not a flicker of expression.
ETA: Oh gods. Perseus' wacky animal sidekick just showed up.
There oughta be a Bad Mythology Web site for snobs like me to enjoy, like Bad Astronomy*.
This film suffers from the widespread Curse of the Hollywood Movie, ie, casting really terrific British actors as the baddies**. Zeus (Sir Laurence) and Athene (Susan Fleetwood) just exchanged about four lines which packed more emotional power than pretty much the whole rest of the movie. About her pet owl for heck's sake!
* Although I've never quite forgiven this site for complaining about the expression "a meteoric rise", because I'm a language snob too.
** First brought to my attention by RH: POT and confirmed by The Three Musketeers.
ETA: Oh gods. Perseus' wacky animal sidekick just showed up.
There oughta be a Bad Mythology Web site for snobs like me to enjoy, like Bad Astronomy*.
This film suffers from the widespread Curse of the Hollywood Movie, ie, casting really terrific British actors as the baddies**. Zeus (Sir Laurence) and Athene (Susan Fleetwood) just exchanged about four lines which packed more emotional power than pretty much the whole rest of the movie. About her pet owl for heck's sake!
* Although I've never quite forgiven this site for complaining about the expression "a meteoric rise", because I'm a language snob too.
** First brought to my attention by RH: POT and confirmed by The Three Musketeers.
