tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Oct 2, 2006 12:04:52 GMT -5
I suppose they have a bunch of different accents, at least, since they have so many wildly different vocal tracts. This was presumably played down in the movie so the audience could understand. The director's cut said they considered Sully saying "Can you understand me?" and then showing from Boo's angle him going "Urr arr gah umm?" but they dropped the idea. Anyone want to comment?
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Post by lizardgirl on Oct 2, 2006 13:27:23 GMT -5
Hmm, well I like to think that their different accents are similar to our different accents- Italian, Spanish, so on, (but of course not named that). I think that if a Mon were to start talking to a child he were scaring, they would understand what he is saying, but we can't know for certain. If not, that poses problems for a sequel with the idea of Boo growing up and returning to the Monster World, as she and Sulley wouldn't be able to communicate.
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 2, 2006 13:50:11 GMT -5
Hmm, well I like to think that their different accents are similar to our different accents- Italian, Spanish, so on, (but of course not named that). I think that if a Mon were to start talking to a child he were scaring, they would understand what he is saying, but we can't know for certain. If not, that poses problems for a sequel with the idea of Boo growing up and returning to the Monster World, as she and Sulley wouldn't be able to communicate. Scarers probably would not try to actually speak to their Scarees, since that would, for most kids, somehow make the monster less frightening. Plus, seeing that the Scarers had kids all over the Human World to scare, many probably would not speak the same language. There is certainly evidence of different languages and regional dialects in the Monster World. Tony the Grosser, for example, sounds an awful lot like "Father Guido Sarduci" of "Saturday Night Live" fame, and he probably was born in the Monster World version of Italy. Sulley has that distinctively "country" Missourie accent, while Mike is pure Joisey! Randall(in spite of being voiced by a native of Brooklyn)sounds quite Midwestern, and I'd bet that if he spoke the word "WASH", he'd stick an "R" in there! The monster who describes for the news crew his "experience" with the killer, lazer-shooting human child makes Larry the Cable Guy sound like William F. Buckley! In the deleted scene, Sulley assumes that a human child, or any human, PERIOD, is not a sentient being with any real language capability, so he starts out talking to Boo as a human would to an animal, or perhaps a primitive tribesperson, or someone of very low intelligence. That would have been perceived as insulting by some people, so it was deleted. pitbulllady
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Oct 2, 2006 13:58:33 GMT -5
Or maybe as you would talk to a very small child? Maybe that was why they tried it in the first place.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 18:20:10 GMT -5
Not to mention Jerry. He had a very thick New England accent, probably from the New York area. When it comes to regions I'm not great, though I definitely KNOW a New York accent when I hear one, mostly thanks to a large influx of New Yorkers back in my hometown.
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Post by Bampot on Oct 2, 2006 18:38:20 GMT -5
umm, how could the kids understand the monsters at the end when they were trying to make them laugh? but that would explain why that kid gave Mike a blank look and why most of the other monsters jokes seemed more physical.
ha, i have a Midwestern accent. i hate it, because i think i talk the same as everyone else, but then they'll say something about it. i never could distinguish accents and none of my friends can either. Southern and Brooklyn accents are the only ones i can get (not counting foreign ones).
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Post by RandallBoggs on Oct 2, 2006 18:43:23 GMT -5
Well that kid was actually ALLOT older than Boo was ^_^
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 2, 2006 19:35:16 GMT -5
Not to mention Jerry. He had a very thick New England accent, probably from the New York area. When it comes to regions I'm not great, though I definitely KNOW a New York accent when I hear one, mostly thanks to a large influx of New Yorkers back in my hometown. Yes, Jerry has a distincty New Yawk accent, but NOT a New England accent; those are entirely different! New Englanders, especially people from Maine, have their own unique linguistic "flavor" which sounds nothing like a New Yorker, although people from upstate NY, near the Canadian border, sound more like people from New England than they sound like people from Manhattan, the Bronx, or any of the other burroughs of NYC. The Scottish influence on many New Englanders is definately still there. pitbulllady
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 19:37:36 GMT -5
Yes I figured the Scots play an influence on that particular dialect. I have a professor who speaks with a strong New England accent, it's far more refined though he STILL can't say his R's, heheh ^_^
Yes, good point, they ARE New Yawkers ;D
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Post by pitbulllady on Oct 2, 2006 19:42:36 GMT -5
Well that kid was actually ALLOT older than Boo was ^_^ Yeah, but he was still too young to "get" Mike's jokes about being the ball in soccer, or flunking kindergarten THAT many times! Most younger kids do get into that physical, more slap-stick kind of humor. Even the jokes that they enjoy usually involve something physical, often bathroom-related. Few things will make young children, or very immature older ones, laugh like someone belching or passing gas, or hitting someone else. I have to wonder, though, if there are kids who do not appreciate that pie-in-the-face humor employed by the Comedians on the Laugh Floors. I wasn't into that sort of thing at all as a kid, but few things would make ME laugh more than someone telling a joke, and some dummy not getting it at all. That's the sorta kids that Randall could probably get a laugh from, rather than the ones who appreciate a pie in the face or a Whoopie cushion. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Oct 2, 2006 19:51:41 GMT -5
Speaking on languages. SOMEON MUST TELL ME....WHAT is the opposite of a Yankie? ^_^
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Post by Bampot on Oct 2, 2006 19:52:04 GMT -5
me too. when i was a little kid, i loved nothing more than funny quirky jokes. and i still do. i was never a fan of bathroom humor. but i was saying that maybe the kids didn't understand what the monsters were saying, so they had to resort to physical slap-stick humor (which probably would have a greater affect on most kids).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 19:54:14 GMT -5
Speaking on languages. SOMEON MUST TELL ME....WHAT is the opposite of a Yankie? ^_^ Opposite of a Yankee? Well a Confederate I suppose but they aren't called that anymore. Confederate really just refers to the TYPE of government they had, it was a Confederation, or a loose union of states. I mean each region has their own certain name but Yankee is really just a broad term now.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Oct 2, 2006 19:55:26 GMT -5
Well I remember this test about whether your a Yankie or something else, but I don't know what it is ^_^
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 19:56:08 GMT -5
I'm.....surprised they'd even use that term today. It's really a broad category now.
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