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Post by Future-Diver on Aug 13, 2024 21:08:56 GMT
"Well, she WASN'T QUITE Raquel Welch... but still VERY attractive in her own way". Leela looks like a less-curvaceous version of Caroline Munro's Princess Dia from 'At The Earth's Core'. This movie came out in July 1976, whereas Leela was first seen on our TV screens in January 1977. "This is EXACTLY what I find so fascinating about her. Grown up in a jungle, yet speaks BETTER than most normal British people!"
Depends what you mean by 'better'. Brits are fiercely proud of their own way of speaking, of their numerous, widely differing regional accents. But then, maybe Leela's speech patterns were the best choice - can you imagine how awful a Cockernee Leela would be? "That reminds me, I just re-watched MY FAIR LADY, and that arrogant Hungarian language expert believed Eliza was "an imposter"-- because she spoke English TOO perfectly to possibly be a native of England" Zoltan Karpathy - 'that dreadful Hungarian'.
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Post by profh0011 on Aug 14, 2024 2:55:47 GMT
Leela looks like a less-curvaceous version of Caroline Munro's Princess Dia from 'At The Earth's Core'. This movie came out in July 1976, whereas Leela was first seen on our TV screens in January 1977.
I've spent months assembling a chronological list of every movie in my collection so I can watch them in that order, so I find it interesting to put things into a historical context. I never connected Dia and Leela before! Dia is definitely "looks", while Leela is more "personality".
Brits are fiercely proud of their own way of speaking, of their numerous, widely differing regional accents. But then, maybe Leela's speech patterns were the best choice - can you imagine how awful a Cockernee Leela would be?
"Why can't the English learn-- TO SPEAK?" 'Enry 'Iggins wouldn't have anything to teach Leela (heh).
My Dad used to play 'ethnic Irish music" at "funtions" on weekends for quite a few years. There were often people "fresh off the boat", who, he was told, could often tell what county you were from after hearing a few sentences. One night, a woman told his band they played "the best Irish music they'd ever heard." They all smiled and said thank you. NONE of them were going to admit that the band consisted of... an Englishman... a Scotsman... and a POLISH guy.
Zoltan Karpathy - 'that dreadful Hungarian'.
AHH yes. It's strange... I re-watched MARY POPPINS and MY FAIR LADY a week apart. The first puts me in the most gloriously good mood from start to finish, and I love every single song in it. The second... half the film makes me either sad or angry, and Lerner & Loewe have some of the STRANGEST ideas of songs I've ever run across in a musical. And I continue to think Jack Warner was an arrogant A**H*** for not wanting to hire the 3 leads from the stage show... though, in the long run, at least he did hire 2 of them. The play was written SPECIFICALLY FOR Rex Harrison, for God's sake!!!
I was shocked to read the other week that actor Henry Daniell, who has a bit part at the Embassy Ball, passed away A FEW HOURS after filming his scene in the movie!
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