Posted by Neil at 205.163.142.226 on December 21, 1999 at 19:16:38:
In Reply to: Re: I don't think Kevin's dialogue sounds everyday-ish posted by Tyler_Durden on December 21, 1999 at 18:27:47:
: Now i for one really empaphised with Brodie when i saw mallrats...
I suspect Brodie wouldn't have tripped over the word empathized, however.
: why? cos he was like me.
Of course. He's like a lot of real people.
: ... he may have been an exaggeration but i do talk him, or rather he talks like me, or so my friends tell me.
And in that line of exaggeration lies exactly what Placenta and I are referring to. The dialogue is the kinds of things people say and the things they might say, but it's hyper-stylized. It's also without the natural cadences of natural speech. It's smooth and graceful, where speech is broken and tripped. People walk over each other's "lines"... people stop to think for too long. They say the wrong word on accident, even though they know the real word. They say "uh" and "y'know".
Anyone who was actually like a Kevin Smith character would be nearly impossible to speak to... and would be immediately recognizable as talking very strangely. Mind you, I get looks for how strange I talk from the people around me -- and have for the better part of 29 years now -- but nothing close to what those people would get in the real world.