Posted by Still Chasing Amy at thrasymachus.sjca.edu on November 18, 1999 at 07:45:19:
In Reply to: Re: Somebody please slap Metatron [SPOILER] posted by alicecbrown on November 17, 1999 at 15:49:49:
: : But kudos for having a Metatron with a slight speech impedement! :)
: Scuzi moi, but Alan Rickman is a Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts
: (RADA) graduate and has done 'Romeo and Juliet', as well as 'Hamlet'.
: The speech impediment of which you speak is called 'diction' or
: 'excellent enunciation'....something folks here very seldom hear.
I'm not saying that MR. RICKMAN has a speech impedement, silly. Listen to his lines as Metatron again. There are very slight stutters sprinkled throughout, almost always on initial consonants. It has nothing to do with his diction, he's playing an angel with a speech impedement whose job it is to be the Voice of God. I though that was a hilarious interpretation, especially as it is terribly subtle stutter, almost unnoticable, as opposed to the broad comic brush that *might* have been applied.
- Still Chasing Amy
c-gillen@sjca.edu