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Grrl Power #1379 - Hadron couture
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It's a good thing Gellen found something Sydney liked right away, because otherwise, presenting her with the unlimited options that mass fabricators present would usually vapor lock her brain.
I'm not sure Maxima owns anything angora, but Sydney's alternate suggestion doesn't quite work with "don't maliciously apply a cheese grater to Maxima's leather jacket." For one thing, that wouldn't work if Max was wearing the thing, and for another, no one really takes cheese graters to leather coats so it wouldn't be an aphorism that anyone would identify with.
Gellen was always supposed to look like an anime pretty boy. You know, all bishonen like. But I'm terrible at drawing "pretty" boys, and I always get him wrong, so this time I used reference. In this case, the reference I used was Shin, from Fist of the Northstar, which is about as far from a bishonen title as it gets. But Shin had the long chin and intense eyes, as opposed to everyone else who square jawed to the point of deformity.
I want Gellen to sound like Ricardo Montalban, just because I saw an episode of Columbo where he played a famous matador. Colombo was in Mexico on vacation with oft talked about but never seen wife, and according to this episode, matadors were apparently treated like Dukes or something. Anyway, Montalban said "matador" like "mat-ta-DOR!" and that always stuck with me for some reason.
But then, almost anything Montalban said was cool sounding. I wonder if he talked like that off camera? It would be cool to hear him order lunch at the craft services table a few times, but eventually it would be frustrating cause it'd take three times as long for him to order his hot pocket and frito pie. (In this hypothetical I'm assuming Montalban had terminal indigestion.)
Actually, I wonder what a conversation between Montalban, Jack Palance, James Earl Jones, Charles Dance, Stacy Keach, Morgan Freeman, and John Wayne would be like, assuming they all used their full on-camera actor voices. There'd be so much gravitas the Earth would disappear into a singularitas.
But seriously, imagine Jack "Believe it....... >inhale<.............. or NOOOOOOOT!" Palance ordering a cheeseburger.
"I'd like...... >inhale<........... a cheeeeeeseburger..... with no pickles.......... >inhale< extra..... dijon mustard..... >inhale<......"
You get the idea. How long until you'd be like, "OHMYGODJUSTWRITEITDOWN!"
Comments
eddi_TBH
I think we can blame Cora for that.
Tim
I'm more surprised he knew all those references.
Eric Loken
From some interviews I saw, and recordings of panels, I think Montalban had a certain amount of gravitas in the way he talked just because of who he was - not unlike some Asian actors in Hollywood who have these super deep voices that seem to come up from their shoes. Montalban's DRAMATIC delivery however was purely put on for a role, even if that role was merely to talk about "Real Corinthian Leather' - some might call it over acting or scenery chewing these days, but that sort of thing used to be expected if not actually required, particularly for a 'foreign' actor. (spoiler, there is no such thing as Real Corinthian Leather, it's merely a marketing term attached to some specific leather used in some models of Chrysler vehicles in the mid 70s, deliberately chosen to sound foreign, exotic, and luxurious... even though it was actually pretty mundane stuff made in New Jersey).
