Muppet Movie
I’ve been to the Milan Film Festival twice. They’ve shown my short movie CRY FOR BOBO three times. This year they asked previous contributors to make little movies about their Milanese adventures. I didn’t have access to much in the way of production values (not even lights, as you can see), but I did have some old puppets I’d made, so I thought I’d use one. The American accent just happened.
September 21, 2010 at 3:04 pm
As I trust I’ve mentioned for the past few years I’ve been working on my memoirs, entitled Raised By Hand Puppets in triubute to the great Burr Tillstrom
September 21, 2010 at 5:47 pm
I recall Richard Lester saying one of his first jobs on US TV was on a show called In the Park. When the monkey smoked (and who can imagine such a thing now?) he was the one blowing smoke up its ass through a tube. A good grounding for a career in motion pictures.
September 22, 2010 at 2:18 am
Your American accent is excellent! You’re welcome to become one of us now should you choose to do so.
September 22, 2010 at 4:09 am
Green For Danger
September 22, 2010 at 10:16 am
BTW, that’s a superb title, David E.
My American accent, though inconsistent, is a permanent low-level presence in my speech: I blame the movies for that.
September 22, 2010 at 7:33 pm
David has no discernable accent at all. It’s neither properly Scottish, English, Welsh, Irish OR American. I don’t know what the hell it is!
September 22, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Well, we know it’s not gibberish. He’s too articulate for that.
September 22, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I met one guy from Northern Ireland who thought I was from there, but have met dozens of others who didn’t, so I think he was just wrong.
My brother has a stronger Scots accent than my parents, so maybe we both reinvented ourselves at some stage, F Gwynplaine MacIntyre style.
September 22, 2010 at 11:43 pm
No discernible accent. It sounds positively…Californian. And disconcerting.
September 23, 2010 at 12:13 am
My voice doesn’t usually lilt up in a question sound at the end though. I’m no Valley girl.
September 23, 2010 at 2:17 am
Valspeak isn’t as widespread in CA as you might think. Seems to afflict the southern parts of the state mostly, although I remember hearing young women up here ape the mannerism back in the ’80s-’90s.
September 23, 2010 at 11:19 am
The rising question inflection has also been big in Australia, it seems. I wonder why.