Michael Reisz's voice acting is incredible. It's honestly a shame he didn't do more. First of all, I loveeee his voice 😍 and second, listening to Takuya in frontier is just WOW bc his screams are actually GUTWRENCHING and the way he screams and idk, grunts? in anger and / or pain while fighting is just 😨😨😨 like he is so powerful and just good at conveying those emotions. It's incredible. Honestly, Takuya screams soo much throughout the show, and every time he does, I'm legitimately terrified lmao
Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo ripreso a parlare nuovamente di animazione, tornando questa volta a parlare della Pixar con una delle sue pellicole migliori in assoluto, una pellicola che apprezzo profondamente ossia Gli Incredibili. I supereroi sono amati dal pubblico e stanno vivendo il loro momento di gloria tra cui Mr Incredibile alias Bob Parr. Un giorno…
Since Michael Reisz has such a good singing voice, I love to see Matt use his singing voice to save his friends just like in the Justice Leauge Unlimited episode, This Little Piggy.
'From Sherlock’s Moriarty to His Dark Materials’ Colonel John Parry; Hamlet to the one-man adaptation of Vanya, Andrew Scott has been a longtime beloved actor of the stage and screen. And now the Dubliner will be taking on another iconic role as he steps into the shoes of Tom Ripley for the upcoming limited series, Ripley. The series, which is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling novels, is set in 1960s New York — and follows Tom Ripley, a grifter who is hired by a wealthy man to go to Italy and try to talk his vagabond son into coming home.
But as Ripley takes the job, he falls headfirst into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
The cast includes Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner, Maurizio Lombardi, Margherita Buy, John Malkovich, Kenneth Lonergan and Ann Cusack.
All eight episodes — which were directed and written by Steven Zaillian — will land on the streaming service on April 4.
The Dubliner told Empire about taking on the role — and the importance of putting “your own stamp” on the character.
He said, “you have to be respectful, but not too reverent, because otherwise there’s no point in doing this.
“You’ve got to put your own stamp on it. Some people will like this version, and some people will like other versions, and that’s okay. What you have to do is understand why this character remains so fascinating for people.”
The Dubliner made his debut on the big screen when he was 17 years old, when he starred in 1995’s Korea opposite Donal Donnelly.
In 1998, he played Edumnd Tyrone in Karel Reisz’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the Gate Theatre — and was nominated for Best Actor In A Supporting Role at the Irish Times Theatre Award for his role in the show.
Scott had roles in Saving Private Ryan, Nora and the adaptation of Henry James’ The American — and in 2000, he made his stage debut in London with Dublin Carol.
He also appeared in Longitude opposite Michael Gambon, the miniseries Band of Brothers and Dead Bodies.
In 2005, he won his first Olivier Award for his role in the stage show A Girl in a Car with a Man — and made his debut on Broadway the next year, opposite Bill Nighy and Julianne Moore in The Vertical Hour.
Scott starred in the one-man show Sea Wall in 2008 and the next year — and on the screen, he had roles in Little While Lie, Foyle’s War and Lennon Naked, which saw him play Paul McCartney.
And in 2010, he took on the role of Moriarty in the BBC One series Sherlock, which also starred Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
Scott was nominated for a number of awards for his portrayal of the super sleuth’s nemesis, winning the Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2012 BAFTAS and Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Television at the 2013 IFTAS.
And in 2013, the actor opened up about the “extraordinary” reaction to the series.
He told The Independent, “Sherlock has changed all our careers, and I’m really pleased about that. It gives you the benefit of the doubt because executives like to see recognisable faces.
“It was overwhelming to be on a TV show that is quite so popular. That took me totally by surprise. People had an instant affection for it from the first episode. The reaction was extraordinary.”
He followed that up with a number of roles on the big and small screen over the next few years, including The Scapegoat, The Stag, The Town and Dates.
In 2014, Scott played Gethin Roberts in the film Pride, for which he was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the 2015 IFTAS and won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards.
The same year, he starred in Locke and Jimmy’s Hall. In 2015, he had a role in the 007 film Spectre — and the next year, he had roles in Alice Through The Looking Glass, Denial, This Beautiful Fantastic and Handsome Devil.
In 2017, he played Hamlet on the stage — and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The stage show was filmed and broadcast the following year.
Scott starred opposite Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Florence Pugh in 2018’s King Lear — and that summer, it was announced he would be joining the cast of Fleabag.
He captured hearts around the world for his portrayal of The Priest, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.
During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers earlier this year, he opened up about being cast in the show — and stepping away from some of the more villainous roles.
He said, “when I was in my 20s, I had a little baby face and I felt like I had this kind of darkness inside me. And I was like ,‘why can’t I get a part as a villain?’
“And then that happened — and then there were loads of villains happening, and I was like, ‘why can’t people see the real me?’
“Phoebe and I had done a play together in London that nobody saw, and she came a knocking — and that’s where the Priest came from.”
The same year, he played Lieutenant Leslie in 1917 and had roles in Black Mirror — which he got an IFTA and Emmy nomination for — and Modern Love.
Scott also took on the role of Colonel John Parry in the BBC’S His Dark Materials, an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy of the same name. The series ran from 2019 until 2022, and Scott was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Drama) at the 2021 IFTAS.
On the stage, the actor played Garry Essendine in the revival of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter — and won the Olivier Award for Best Actor. The following year, he played Patrick in The Three Kings.
In 2021, he played Lord Merlin in the three-part adaptation of The Pursuit of Love and Terje Rødlarsen in the film Oslo. The next year, Scott played Lord Rollo in the Lena Dunham-directed comedy Catherine Called Birdy.
Last year, he starred in an adaptation of Vanya which saw him play all of the characters in the show.
He also starred opposite Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers, which saw him nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes.'
VICTOR J KEMPER (1927-Died November 27th 2023,at 96). American cinematographer.As a cinematographer, Kemper collaborated extensively with director Arthur Hiller. Kemper worked with the leading directors of the 1970s including John Cassavetes, Sidney Lumet, Anthony Harvey, Michael Ritchie, Ulu Grosbard, Peter Yates, Karel Reisz, Elaine May, J. Lee Thompson, Elia Kazan, George Roy Hill, Robert Wise, Carl Reiner, Bob Rafelson, Irvin Kershner, Richard Attenborough, and Norman Jewison.Victor J. Kemper - Wikipedia
Something that I don’t see brought up with modern Digimon Adventure dubs like... at all is how lackadaisical the dub casting is now?
1. Any voice actors that were still active got to reprise their roles - Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Sora, Mona Marshall as Izzy, Philece Sampler as Mimi, Tom Fhan as Agumon, etc. etc., with the one exception being Doug Erholtz - who apparently couldn’t pull off his TK voice so instead got cast as Daigo in Tri.
2. An effort was made to get back voice actors who haven’t had any roles to their names in years - at least, on sites on IMDB - to reprise their characters as well. So we got roles like Anna Garduno’s Palmon, Jeff Nimoy’s Tentomon, Laura Summer’s Patamon. The consistency even extends to some of the bit characters - Togemon, Birdramon and Angemon retain their actors even though they largely just have battle cries (The latter two were re-cast midway through for unknown reasons) - Beau Billingslea reprises Ogremon in Tri, even though all Ogremon does is grunt.
3. For lack of better place to put this - we know that casting didn’t reach out to actors who had officially retired, including Michael Lindsay, Michael Reisz and Joshua Seth - which is kinda fair- but the former two seemingly would have been interested in reprising had they been notified, and Joshua Seth had to reach out himself in order to reprise his role as Tai.
That all said, it’s clear whoever was in charge of casting made very deliberate decisions to retain as much former cast as possible even to surprising ends, to the point of getting back actors who had dropped out anime VA work. So it feels like whoever is casting has a pretty good knowledge about Digimon... until randomly, they don’t?
Several characters have new voices that feel like they couldn’t have possibly come from the way we knew them in the original Adventure and 02′s dubs. Joe, Kari and Davis have noticeably higher voices in their college years than they did when they were twelve. Gatomon’s original voice had catlike qualities to it, while her Japanese voice had one that made her sound more mature than the other Digimon, but Tri/Kizuna’s dub casts aside both of those and just goes for a ‘kinda cute‘ voice.
Brian Donovan and Neil Kaplan were set to reprise Davis and Hawkmon respectively before Covid complications made that impossible, and only Hawkmon’s new VA emulated the original actor while Davis’s new actor didn’t bring any of Donovan’s unique performance, so every line with Davis is noticeably, distractingly different.
Philece Sampler and Laura Summer don’t reprise Koromon or Tokomon despite already being cast in said dubs, and instead the two are played by men, which means they now have deeper voices than their immediate evolutions (and Tokomon just flat out has Gomamon’s voice).
And poor Armadillomon - somehow the casting director was aware of Hawkmon’s accent but not Armadillomon’s, so instead of a western accent - which should be extremely easy to replicate in some way - Armadillomon has this bizarre squeaky toy voice.
And lastly there’s Vic Mignogna as Matt - a completely baffling, unfitting casting decision until you realize that Tri’s Matt is literally just written as Digimon Fusion’s Christopher Aonuma, so it’s actually just a stealth reprisal and they clearly just wanted to protect Michael Reisz from such a horrible character assassination. (Hilariously enough, Nicolas Roye plays Matt much closer to Reisz’s portrayal than Mignogna’s, so puberty really did a number on Matt.)
This isn’t an attack on any of the actors or anything - even if there’s casting decisions I really don’t care for, everyone does a good job and in a vacuum I can see why they were cast (Except for Armadillomon - there’s no excuse for that). I just genuinely don’t think I’ve seen such a weird approach to casting before - get as much a original cast back so they sound like what fans know and love, and then cast everyone else without regard to the original dub or sub, throwing a dart to cast Tokomon and Koromon for good measure.
Since characters like Mimi (who’s replacement in Kizuna sounded nothing like Sampler) and Matt show they don’t entirely care about consistency, I hope they’ll bring back Donovan for what may be Davis’s last run in the new movie at least.
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Segunda que veo de Reisz. La primera me gustó mucho: Sábado noche, domingo mañana (1960). Esta, parece, al menos en principio, de temática totalmente distinta. Sobre el tráfico de drogas tras la guerra de Vietnam he visto varias cintas. Ésta debe ser una de las primeras, más que nada por la fecha.
Un reparto encabezado por Nick Nolte, tan joven como puedeas imaginar, al que le acompaña Tuesday Weld , Michael Moriarty y Anthony Zerbe.
Tardas en saber cuál es la problemática del asunto. El drama moral, la angustia existencial, los remordimientos de conciencia, la deriva psicológica de los personajes sometidos al tremendo estrés de la guerra es la fuente de la que mana la trama de la obra. La relación entre ellos no es sencilla, se basa en circunstancias no contadas expresamente en la cinta y no suelen tener un propósito conjunto de vida o de obra. No es que sean realmente dos historias cruzadas, ni nada parecido, pero funcionan como dos asuntos diferentes.
Tiene algo de road movie, algo de película de redención, de superación de adicciones a las drogas, de enamoramiento indebido, de frustraciones de la clase media, de redención de uno mismo en el pecado, en el lugar más infame posible.
Es interesante, pero menos que la citada, se deja ver y mantiene el interés a lo largo del metraje. No decae y funciona. Supongo que también en taquilla, porque era la época de las películas del Vietnam y cada Director, célebre o no, tenía su propia visión sobre el asunto, cada unos desde una perspectiva diferente. Además Nolte acababa de abordar el estrellato, por lo que verle era un incentivo.
Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962)
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam, Joe Robinson, Dervis Ward, Topsy Jane, Julia Foster. Screenplay: Alan Sillitoe, based on his story. Cinematography: Walter Lassally. Production design: Ralph W. Brinton. Film editing: Antony Gibbs. Music: John Addison.
Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner owes some of its prominence in film history to being grouped with other "Angry Young Men" films, such as Richardson's own Look Back in Anger (1959), Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959), Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), and Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life (1963), working-class dramas that gave a boost to such young actors as Richard Burton, Laurence Harvey, Albert Finney, and Richard Harris. Tom Courtenay also got a leg up on his career, largely because he, more than director Richardson, is what holds The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner together. Richardson's direction lacks focus and tension. For example, he occasionally resorts to brief bursts of sped-up action that almost make me hear "Yackety Sax" playing in the background. The essence of Alan Sillitoe's screenplay is that, as Kris Kristofferson put it, freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Courtenay plays Colin Smith, sent to a reformatory, called a Borstal in Britain, for robbery. The oily, autocratic governor of the institution, played by Michael Redgrave, quickly spots Colin's aptitude for running and grooms him for a race he has arranged between teams from the reform school and an upper-class public school. Colin relishes the illusion of freedom that long-distance running gives him, but when the time comes for the race, he realizes that he's just being used by the governor to enhance his image, so he throws the race at the finish line. The bulk of the film deals with Colin's rebellion against the family in which he grew up, his involvement with a young woman, and the small crimes he and a friend commit before he finally gets caught for the theft. But there's not much shape to the film's flashback integration of this background story, and the film falls slack when it should be building to a climax. Still, Courtenay's performance and solid support from Redgrave, from Alec McCowen as a smarmy school counselor full of hack psychology, and from the fine character actress Avis Bunnage as Colin's mother help keep the film alive.
How do you think Takuya and Matt would react after they discovered that they have the same english voice actor?
ANON. ANON. I AM ALWAYS (well not always I think about a lot of things) THINKING ABOUT THIS EXACT THING.
Honestly, Matt would have the bigger reaction. He’d do a fourth-wall-breaking thing and point at Takuya and scream, “A GOGGLE BOY? REALLY?” while Tai is laughing somewhere until someone tells him he was the voice of a Wizardmon and he has the urge to cry.
Takuya meanwhile is like, “Wait, so my voice was the voice of an edgy broheim like Koji?”
Can we please get Michael Reisz back as Matt for Last Evolution Kizuna? Vic is almost definitely not being brought back after all that. Plus Michael said he would love to come back when the dub for Tri was announced initially