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Posts: 4 (06/09/09 08:49 AM) |
Hey everybody! Interesting disco of Pendergast's NOLA life. I have a hard time 'hearing' his voice when I read, so I've been trying to think of
someone famous with a true NOLA accent. So far I've got Harry Connick Jr. Here's a coulple interviews.
http://video.msn.com/vide...0-44d0-90fa-99b7d48708fb http://video.msn.com/vide...e-40ce-9f66-90c6f86acafb
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Posts: 57 (06/09/09 10:32 AM) |
I have listened to several audio versions of the Pendergast novels. An actor named Scott Brick reads them. He is FABULOUS. To, me he is Pendergast. Very soft
accent, not twangy. When he says "My deah, Vincent,", I get chills. See if your local .library carries the series on tape with Scott reading it. You
will not be disappointed.
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Posts: 9756 (06/09/09 12:01 PM) Moderator |
Of course... Harry Connick Jr. I love him. I love him even more after watching that. He does perfectly illustrate not only the accent, but more of the tambre
of Pendergast's voice - P's would probably be even smoother.
Crackers and camembert went flying.
Smithback grabbed crackers and cheese off his frilled
shirt and started eating.
-Relic Aghast, Smithback watched a massive brie roll like a white wheel all the way across the hall before coming to a gluey rest in a dark corner. -Book of the Dead |
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Posts: 11 (06/09/09 07:36 PM) |
1. Love the Coe house -- definitely Pendergast-esque!
2. Much as I like Rene A, don't much care for his rendering of the novels. I think I "hear" the characters so well in my own head that Rene comes up short. 3. I love Harry C -- plays my kind of music! Yet, his accent is a bit too down home for me.... but maybe I need to think about that a little bit more. Pendergast, in my head, has an elegant cadence to his speech. I can hear Pendergast in my head... but can't think of anyone to compare him to, at the moment. Any other suggestions re southern accents? |
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Posts: 92 (06/09/09 08:08 PM) |
Any other suggestions re southern accents? Hank Hill? Foghorn Leghorn? Jimmy Swaggart? Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau. The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine. |
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Posts: 5 (06/09/09 09:54 PM) |
Francie wrote:You're probably right about Harry's accent. It's a bit TOO typical NOLA, whereas Pendergast, being from high society and all *g*, would likely sound more refined. Just can't hear the Special Agent saying "Where y'at baby?" as Harry probably does every day. In other words, Pendy ain't no Yat! 
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Posts: 42 (06/09/09 11:26 PM) |
I may get slapped, but when I first started reading the Series long ago...Matthew McConaughey's voice slipped into my head. Never again, though. Scott
Brick definitely has a better Pendergast accent.
------------------------------- Pendergast looked searchingly at Margo for a long moment. "I need you..." -- Relic --------------------------------- |
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Posts: 9758 (06/10/09 01:03 AM) Moderator |
*shudder* I cringe every time Matthew McConaughey's name is mentioned in the same sentence as Pendergast.
Haven't heard Scott Brick, might have to track down a clip.
Crackers and camembert went flying.
Smithback grabbed crackers and cheese off his frilled
shirt and started eating.
-Relic Aghast, Smithback watched a massive brie roll like a white wheel all the way across the hall before coming to a gluey rest in a dark corner. -Book of the Dead |
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Posts: 7269 (06/10/09 02:36 AM) |
"I cringe every time Matthew McConaughey's name is mentioned in the same sentence as Pendergast."
Now, now--is that really being fair to the estimable MMcC?  Sure, he's played more surf bums and slackers than he should, but suppose you were seeing him
for the first time today? Suppose he had no track record--and all you knew of him was that Dolce and Gabbana ad...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nfgcTUg7s ...and that he has a southern accent? You have to admit, he does fit the "sculpted body" WOD description. And he cleans up way nicely. 
(Patrick opens one cranky eye to advise dini to ignore his relentlessly-goofy human.'s teasing. He regards MMcC as Reason #485,393,303,394,298,276,463,598
why humans need to be conquered--any species that allows any one person to make that many awful movies needs the kind of ...guidance that only wise avians like
himself can provide...)
******************************************** "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home who answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late every night." --Marie Corelli
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Posts: 9762 (06/10/09 03:34 AM) Moderator |
Seriously, no -- He resembles my dad (a younger version, but still, I've had many a friend point it out to me until I believed them). There has to be a
wall there for my sanity. I'm afraid to even click on that link.
Crackers and camembert went flying.
Smithback grabbed crackers and cheese off his frilled
shirt and started eating.
-Relic Aghast, Smithback watched a massive brie roll like a white wheel all the way across the hall before coming to a gluey rest in a dark corner. -Book of the Dead |
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Posts: 921 (06/10/09 05:54 AM) |
"Foghorn Leghorn". Now that cracked me up.
Pendergast to D'Agosta: Now, boah, I say, boah! *** I had the good fortune to work with someone about 10 years ago who had precisely the accent that I think Pendergast is supposed to have. Not twangy, but with a relaxed feel. Certain words had more of the accent than others, but it was elegant and I can easily imagine this accent being the one AXLP uses. I can't really describe it, I'm not good at that. But I'm happy to have that accent in my head - otherwise I'd be imagining all kinds of things.
"Nobody told me there'd be days like these...Strange days indeed." -John Lennon
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Posts: 12 (06/10/09 08:28 PM) |
deering wrote:Oh my! Dye that man's hair blonde -- he is my ideal Pendergast in appearance! Definitely! Thanks for the link! |
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Posts: 13 (06/10/09 08:33 PM) |
Jimmy Swaggert? LOL and SHUDDERING AT THE SAME TIME!
While I can't quite picture him as Pendergast in tones, I will admit that an earlier poster (in jest, perhaps) mentioned Billy Graham. Graham has a liquid sound to his vowels and he is soft on the consonents. Maybe -- in an imperfect world or some bizarre parallel universe -- the voice of Billy Graham could SLIGHTLY suffice for Pendergast. But only slightly. Southern accents are tough. They are either too down home or too stylized. We've become such a nation bereft of regional accents for the most part, that it is hard to think of a recognizable southern voice that might suffice for Pendergast. But I'm addled at the moment, having just viewed the great clip provided by Deering that I mention above! SMILE. |
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Posts: 7272 (06/11/09 02:02 AM) |
"He resembles my dad (a younger version, but still, I've had many a friend point it out to me until I believed them)."
Oh, geez--really? Um...er...wow. (My compliments to your dad. )
"There has to be a wall there for my sanity." Well, I can certainly understand that. Yikes. Sorry... 
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Posts: 9776 (06/11/09 02:19 AM) Moderator |
Eh. It took me a while to really see it - I said to people - no, he doesn't look like him, you're crazy. But they finally convinced me, and I can't
turn it off! Even my mom mentions it now. Not a striking resemblance, and my dad's a lot older, but it's just enough to creep me out a little at the
thought of him as Pendergast.
Crackers and camembert went flying.
Smithback grabbed crackers and cheese off his frilled
shirt and started eating.
-Relic Aghast, Smithback watched a massive brie roll like a white wheel all the way across the hall before coming to a gluey rest in a dark corner. -Book of the Dead |
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Posts: 3408 (06/11/09 07:43 AM) Riptide Master |
Southern accents are tough. They are either too down home or too stylized.Also, there is no"southern" accent, per se. Each state has its own "accent", and often you find completely different accents within the same state (Georgia is a good example). Also why non-American actors have trouble with an "American" accent. There's no such thing, really.
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Posts: 6 (06/11/09 08:38 AM) |
Well, I'm back to square one on figuring out P's accent. I started rereading CoC last night, and P's accent is described at a "mellifluous
plantation accent." My daddy grew up speaking what my family called "plantation french"--they weren't Cajuns and were adamant about
correcting people when they were mistakenly called Cajuns just because they were french-speaking and from SE Louisiana. They were of German descent, actually
(there's a whole history of the Germans who came to LA in the 1700's and ended up settling along the Miss. River, and setting up plantations and
speaking french... but I won't bore you with that). Someone from the outside would probably say they sounded like Cajuns when they spoke English, but it
was (is) a notably different accent.
Anyway...... if AP was born and raised in NOLA but grew up around a family of plantation french speakers, then he definitely doesn't sound like a typical NOLA Yat--or like Harry C., but rather, more frenchie sounding--which I personally find pleasing. I just can't picture him sounding like most of the guys I know from here! *g*
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Posts: 7274 (06/11/09 02:01 PM) |
"Oh my! Dye that man's hair blonde -- he is my ideal Pendergast in appearance! Definitely!"
Heh, Francie. A while back, M. Child suggested MMcC as a Pendergast candidate. To a degree, I can see now why he did so--in terms of looks and all...
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Posts: 17 (06/27/09 05:35 PM) |
Pegging P's accent as I re-read the books is still preoccupying me, so I"m bumping this thread to say I found a great lil video on youtube made
locally (New Orleans) all about the various New Orleans accents. If you watch, you'll get a real good idea of how different New Orleanians talk. it's
quite a range, and you won't hear any typical southern (like Georgia or Mississippi) in there. Now, there's one accent covered here that approximates
how I imagine Our Special Agent talking. It's the white uptown/Garden District accent. For example, the older gentlemen in suits that you'll walking
and conversing in the video represent, to my experience, how many of the 'old money' uptown families talk, or at least the older people do. If P is old
money/ old family, I can hear him with this accent, but much younger sounding. It's a soft, slow, gentle accent for sure. You can just hear it...."Mah
deah Vincent...."
The ladies at the end are especially funny. And yeah, that is a very typical accent of the white Yat. eta: Adding the link would help.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpFDNTo4DNg Aslo an NPR thing that gets it right: http://www.npr.org/templa...id=4961257&m=4961258
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Posts: 7292 (06/27/09 06:48 PM) |
"It's a soft, slow, gentle accent for sure. You can just hear it...."Mah deah Vincent...."
...or "Mah deah Margo..."
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