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[QUOTE=Tami;5743923]A lot of people on Twitter are also expecting Chris Pratt to fall flat as far as doing an Italian accent. Then again, he might surprise everyone.
Here is some interesting trivia. The last nae Pratt apparently comes from Anglo-Saxon meaning Trickster or Joker. Seems to fit him pretty well.[/QUOTE]
Clown or slapstick bumps are also called ‘pratfalls’ for that reason. And ‘prat’ is a bit of an (outdated) insult in the UK (it was still heavily in use in the 80s).
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[QUOTE=Sharkerbob;5744508]Well, you know a Mario movie couldn't possibly sell itself, especially not to children, if you didn't slap popular celebrity names on the poster.
I mean, just think of all the money they could have saved on celebrity budgets while still giving professional voice actors a Big Movie Budget payout. That would just be criminal.[/QUOTE]
Remember, this is the industry that paid Vin Diesel to not sound like Vin Diesel and essentially just say “I am Groot.” (with the occasional “We are Groot.”).
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[QUOTE=Beadle;5744530]Remember, this is the industry that paid Vin Diesel to not sound like Vin Diesel and essentially just say “I am Groot.” (with the occasional “We are Groot.”).[/QUOTE]
See, it makes a bit more sense for me if a live-action movie with a ton of celebrity actors has the occasional animated character voiced by another celebrity actor.
A fully animated movie, though, it'd be nice to see the usual Saturday Morning Cartoon Crew getting some spotlight.
Ah, well, I'm not saying normal actors can't do a decent VA job, it just reeks of cynical marketing sometimes.
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Every generation, one of more actors became the It actor, the one that has the name recognition and that every director wants them in their movie or project.
Chris Pratt has the enviable or unenviable position of being on the short list of go to actors this time around.
For example, in the 1980's, Harrison Ford was in that list, as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sigourney Weaver.
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I'm just reminded of a Billy West interview from a while back, where he points out that he did voices for several of the Looney Tunes in Space Jam, and yet, the poster says "Starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny". Like, I get why, that's the joke of the movie, and Bugs is an iconic character who's had multiple voices, but still, he points out, that his name isn't anywhere in the promotion, and he and the other VAs didn't even get invited to the big debut showing at the main theater, despite voicing most of the major characters of the film who weren't Michael Jordan.
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[QUOTE=Sharkerbob;5744607]I'm just reminded of a Billy West interview from a while back, where he points out that he did voices for several of the Looney Tunes in Space Jam, and yet, the poster says "Starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny". Like, I get why, that's the joke of the movie, and Bugs is an iconic character who's had multiple voices, but still, he points out, that his name isn't anywhere in the promotion, and he and the other VAs didn't even get invited to the big debut showing at the main theater, despite voicing most of the major characters of the film who weren't Michael Jordan.[/QUOTE]
Stunt casting in animation has become way more prevalent.
I had an long and drawn out argument with my friend who wrote part of his PhD on the concept while I was helping him edit his thesis because, back in like 2014, it wasn't nearly so aggressive and I felt his examples didn't bear out.
Nowadays, oof, he was completely right about it.
Sucks that proper, actually very talented, voice actors don't get recognition and lose work to flavour of the month type actors who don't know how to do voice work with anywhere near the level of skill they employ.
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[QUOTE=Nik Hasta;5744811]Stunt casting in animation has become way more prevalent.
I had an long and drawn out argument with my friend who wrote part of his PhD on the concept while I was helping him edit his thesis because, back in like 2014, it wasn't nearly so aggressive and I felt his examples didn't bear out.
Nowadays, oof, he was completely right about it.
Sucks that proper, actually very talented, voice actors don't get recognition and lose work to flavour of the month type actors who don't know how to do voice work with anywhere near the level of skill they employ.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. PhD on voice casting? What was his field of study?
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[QUOTE=bruceleegreyhulk;5743826][video=youtube;Ke40uUjQOoU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke40uUjQOoU[/video][/QUOTE]
Why? What about IKWYDLS screamed "we need to remake this forgettable late 90s slasher made in the short boom period that resulted after [I][B]Scream[/B][/I]'s success"?
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[QUOTE=The Dog;5744881]Why? What about IKWYDLS screamed "we need to remake this forgettable late 90s slasher made in the short boom period that resulted after [I][B]Scream[/B][/I]'s success"?[/QUOTE]
It's a title from 20 years ago that people remember, that's all they need.
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[QUOTE=Sharkerbob;5744852]Yeah. PhD on voice casting? What was his field of study?[/QUOTE]
Media and Film Studies.
[url=https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26182/1/4521_Carter.pdf][b]You can see his thesis here if you're interested.[/b][/url] The topic was on the globalisation of Studio Ghibli and it's interplay with Disney as its global distributor which included looking at the process around how dub casts are put together in the West.
Looking at the date of publication, I think our big argument about Star Vehicle Theory was in late 2016 rather than 2014. Time is indeed a flat circle.
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[URL="https://twitter.com/Sprucelass/status/1441433049850425344?s=20"]Halo beta got a cool feature.[/URL]
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[QUOTE=The Dog;5744881]Why? What about IKWYDLS screamed "we need to remake this forgettable late 90s slasher made in the short boom period that resulted after [I][B]Scream[/B][/I]'s success"?[/QUOTE]
The lead chick spinning around and saying---
[video=youtube;DVbdF9AGBWg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVbdF9AGBWg[/video]?
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[QUOTE=Postmania;5745252][URL="https://twitter.com/Sprucelass/status/1441433049850425344?s=20"]Halo beta got a cool feature.[/URL][/QUOTE]
How else you think the Spartans were so dangerous?
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[video=youtube;rGUlL7-HwDg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGUlL7-HwDg[/video]
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[QUOTE=The MunchKING;5744464]Well it's not like they could get the Captain. He's been dead for a while now.[/QUOTE]
...I'm going to assume the Captain was the dude from that 80s Mario show I barely remember from the reruns in kindergarten in the early 90s?
I'm just saying there's voice actors who can actually change their voice well enough to do a decent Mario impression. I've seen and heard nothing to suggest Pratt will do anything other than sound like he always sounds (the Lego Movie didn't really have him change it up).