Questions related to specific pieces of a work's spoken word.
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Wikipedia Page: Dialogue
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Is there any evidence that some movies tried to pass off backwards English as Native American speech?
Lily Gladstone said the following during her acceptance speech for "Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama" during the 2024 Golden Globe Awards:
I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language, which I'm…
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What is Danny Kaye saying in his three-language blurb in The Court Jester?
In the embedded scene in The Court Jester with Danny Kaye, he rattles off lengthy blurbs in French, Italian, and German. It's quite entertaining, but I've always wanted to know what the English translation is of those 3 blurbs.
Anybody know? There…
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70s skit - "I hope you've sealed the envelope properly"
In 1985 the inimitable Patricia Routledge did a series of five short sketches for the BBC where she plays a woman named Kitty. Practically every sentence is a (pop) culture reference and I've been able to figure out most of them, but this one…
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Dog-Faced Pony Soldier?
According to the Washington Post, Joe Biden recently (jokingly) called a voter a "lying dog-faced pony soldier". He attributes the quote to a John Wayne movie.
Is there such a John Wayne quote?
Note: A Slate article suggests there is not and gives…
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Origin of the quote "mad impetuous boy"
I occasionally run across a phrase containing the words 'mad impetuous boy' in a number of movies. Probably most famous is a Pete Lorre lookalike in a Loony Tunes cartoon being slapped by Daffy Duck.
It's such a specific phrase, I wonder if there's…
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Why do some movies contain scenes in different languages?
For instance, I'm watching the Jackie Chan movie, The Accidental Spy. Part of the dialogue is in English, and part of it is in Korean (or maybe it's Chinese?).
One scene that comes to mind is when Jackie Chan goes to the church. The priest asks…
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Why do some characters say 'Shhh' to their victims while murdering them?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I did see this trope on TV.
Here are three examples:
Family Guy: Peter killing Yogi Bear:
Red Dragon: Hannibal kills Graham:
Saving private Ryan: German kills Mellish:
I imagine it's some kind of…
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What do we call the scene in which actors are talking with their mouth closed?
I know it is a long word other than humming. There is a name for the action of talking with your mouth closed in movies.
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"Well we gave him the molasses, now let's feed him the sulfa." In Harm's Way (1965)
The clip from Otto Preminger's 1965 In Harm's Way (a film overflowing with familiar names), begins with Henry Fonda's character "Admiral Nimitz (referred to as 'CINCPAC II')" saying the line:
Well we gave him the molasses, now let's feed him the…
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Minor child actors swearing on TV
I notice children swear a lot in TV shows, e.g. on Stranger Things. (Examples for swears: SOB, screw you, showing the middle finger, etc.), I can't remember if they've said f**k yet. In a culture where kids their age are not allowed to say these…
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