I was able to get my electricity paid for ;_; thank y'all so much. I have been extremely stressed about how I would make it till payday but this gives me even a small amount of breathing room
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uooooogh the christian God is actually deer skull and raccoon salmon in pickup truck ooooooooooooooo and She (god) (usually refererd to as Male but im Queering it) talked to me in parking lot and said uh h Life Is Decay Anr Rotting and Sunlight is actually the souls of deer skull and i was like woah but im just little old me from somewhere in the contiguous USA and She (god) (Queering it) said being Yourself is th e most important thing and that i should Vote
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I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful
if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.
but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.
christ, he's good.
the eliding of โyou allโ to โyโallโ while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. โbear with meโ said exactly like iโve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.
Get this man a starring role as Marc Antony in a southern adaptation of this show PLEASE.
This man is fantastic. ๐
The thing that just destroys me about this, though -- we think of Shakespearean language as being high-cultured, and intellectual, and somewhat inaccessible. And I know people think of Southerners as being ill-educated (which...let's be fair, most are, but not the way it's said). But that whole speech, unaltered, is so authentically Southern. And the thing is: Leaning into that language really amps the mood, in metalanguage. I'm not really sure how to explain it except... like... "Thrice" is not a word you hear in common speech...unless you're in the South and someone is trying to Make A Fucking Point.
Anyway. This was amazing and I want a revival of Shakespeare As Southern Gothic.
One of the lovely things about this, and one of the reasons it works so well, is that from what we can piece together of how Shakespeare was originally pronounced, it leans more towards an American southern accent than it does towards a modern British RP.
In addition, in the evolution of the English language in america, the south has retained many of the words, expressions, and cadences from the Renaissance/Elizabethan English spoken by the original British colonists.
One of the biggest examples of this is that the south still uses โO!โ/โOh!โ In sentences, especially in multi-tone and multi-syllable varieties. Weโve lost that in other parts of the country (except in some specific pocket communities). But in the south on the whole? Still there. People in California or Chicago donโt generally say things like โwhy, oh why?โ Or โoh bless your heartโ or โOh! Now why you gotta do a thing like that?!โ But people from the south still do.
I teach, direct, and dramaturg Shakespeare for a living. When people are struggling with the โheightenedโ language, especially in โOโ heavy plays like R&J and Hamlet, a frequent exercise I have them do is to run the scene once in a southern accent. You wouldnโt believe the way it opens them up and gives their contemporary brains an insight into ways to use that language without it being stiff and fake. Do the Balcony scene in a southern accent- youโll never see it the same way again.
This guy is also doing two things that are absolutely spot-on for this speech:
First, heโs using the rhetorical figures Shakespeare gave him! The repetition of โambitionโ and โBrutus is an honorable manโ, the logos with which he presents his argument, the use of juxtaposition and antitheses (โpoor have cried/caesar hath weptโ, etc). You would not believe how many RADA/Carnegie/LAMDA/Yale trained actors blow past those, and how much of my career I spend pointing it out and making them put it back in.
Second, heโs playing the situation of the speech and character exactly right. This speech is hard not just because itโs famous, but because linguistically and rhetorically itโs a better speech than Brutusโ speech and in the context of the play, Brutus is the one who is considered a great orator. Brutusโ speech is fiery passion and grandstanding, working the crowd, etc. Anthony is not a man of speeches (โI am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt manโ) His toastmaster skills are not what Brutusโ are, but he speaks from his heart (his turn into verse in this scene from Brutusโ prose is brilliant) and lays out such a reasonable, logical argument that the people are moved anyway. I completely believe that in this guyโs performance. A plain, blunt, honest speaker. Exactly what Anthony should be.
TLDR: Shakespeare is my job and this is 100% a good take on this speech.
definitely one of the challenges I have with reading Shakespeare is that it sounds so weird to me. โThe good is oft interrโd with their bonesโ?? Who talks like that?
Well,,, rednecks. Despite being Elizabethan English, none of this is really out of character for a man with that accent; southern american English has retained not only (I am told) the accent of Shakespeare, and the โOh!โ speech patterns, but also so many of the little linguistic patterns: parenthetic repetition (โso are they all - all honorable menโ), speaking formally when deeply emotional, getting more and more sarcastic and passive-aggressive as time goes on, etc.
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things are not looking good financially for me at the moment. after paying rent Iโm still looking at $180 for my electricity, which is more than what I have left in my account + i wonโt get paid for another 12 days.
normally I would be able to make this work but I have a very unfortunately timed bill I wasnโt prepared to handle pop up and I donโt have the money I normally would at this time of the month to handle that with. if you want to help and can help, i would 100% appreciate that.
things are not looking good financially for me at the moment. after paying rent Iโm still looking at $180 for my electricity, which is more than what I have left in my account + i wonโt get paid for another 12 days.
normally I would be able to make this work but I have a very unfortunately timed bill I wasnโt prepared to handle pop up and I donโt have the money I normally would at this time of the month to handle that with. if you want to help and can help, i would 100% appreciate that.
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Zzzz....
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hi hal i just wanted to let you know seeing your top surgery journey really really helped me start the process and im finally getting it in just two weeks!!! im very very excited and i just wanted to say thank you for helping even if it was just making funny post. have a wonderful day!!
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