FK, "For I Have Sinned."
:: stares at Joan of Arc :: Dude. I had completely forgotten how obviously the Slightly Dodgy French Accent so doesn't sound like Christina's voice. Which I realized way back when she turned up again in a smaller role in season 2, and I went "Hey, that's Joan! Wow, she sounds completely different, and it ain't just the accent."
I wonder why. Did they have her play it in her natural accent on set, and then change their minds? I always found it rather annoying anyway, as I always do when characters who are assumed to be speaking something other than English to each other are presented in English accented with that language. Especially when they only saddle one person in the scene with it. It just doesn't make intuitive sense to me. Plus it was too obviously ADR just soundwise, something FK suffered from more often than I would like. Another hazard of falling in love with shows that have no money.
It's possible that they did bring her back in to dub herself, I guess. (I wouldn't have said that before Vicki's information-gathering phone persona in "5:55", with the back-resonating Mississippi Delta vowels completely altering her timbre.) But I'm pretty sure it's someone else -- it just doesn't quite go with the nonverbal she's doing. (Which incidentally, kicks some serious ass. She was nineteen. And people wonder why I always zoom in on her in anything.) Too bad there's no way to hear how the lines really sounded.
:: stares at Joan of Arc :: Dude. I had completely forgotten how obviously the Slightly Dodgy French Accent so doesn't sound like Christina's voice. Which I realized way back when she turned up again in a smaller role in season 2, and I went "Hey, that's Joan! Wow, she sounds completely different, and it ain't just the accent."
I wonder why. Did they have her play it in her natural accent on set, and then change their minds? I always found it rather annoying anyway, as I always do when characters who are assumed to be speaking something other than English to each other are presented in English accented with that language. Especially when they only saddle one person in the scene with it. It just doesn't make intuitive sense to me. Plus it was too obviously ADR just soundwise, something FK suffered from more often than I would like. Another hazard of falling in love with shows that have no money.
It's possible that they did bring her back in to dub herself, I guess. (I wouldn't have said that before Vicki's information-gathering phone persona in "5:55", with the back-resonating Mississippi Delta vowels completely altering her timbre.) But I'm pretty sure it's someone else -- it just doesn't quite go with the nonverbal she's doing. (Which incidentally, kicks some serious ass. She was nineteen. And people wonder why I always zoom in on her in anything.) Too bad there's no way to hear how the lines really sounded.
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It's nearly impossible to make it really sound like it fits with the on-set sound, and it tends to be really glaring on FK because, well, it was the early 90s and they were poor. :-)
Edited at 2007-11-13 03:38 pm (UTC)
The Paper Mill production that toured in the mid-90s (with Goulet as Arthur, Glory Crampton and Richard White) was very similar to it, plus it put that back in. But I don't think it was filmed for commercial consumption at all. :-/
If you get the opportunity to ask her that someday at a con, will she not remember, do you suppose?