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Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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The opening credits for the new Lost in Space. The theme even includes a bit of John Williams season 3 theme in it.
http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/04/netflix-lost-in-space-opening-credits/
http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/04/netflix-lost-in-space-opening-credits/
In case the abysmal page coding at EW renders the video unwatchable for anyone (as it does for me):
Now, that's how to do an opening credit sequence for a space show.
It is pretty nostalgic, but science fiction stories of this kind about space travel are fundamentally nostalgia now and really not anything else. Doesn't hurt them to occasionally embrace it.
Oh, and it looks like they slip the Enterprise in there.
Now, that's how to do an opening credit sequence for a space show.
It is pretty nostalgic, but science fiction stories of this kind about space travel are fundamentally nostalgia now and really not anything else. Doesn't hurt them to occasionally embrace it.
Oh, and it looks like they slip the Enterprise in there.
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It's been a long road, gettin' from there to here.
Interesting twist on Dr. Smith...wonder how she will work out...should have given her an accent though..
And then last part showing will and the robot... The boy looks a lot like Billy Mumy (at my quick glance)...the robot seems more logically modern...have they had a clip with him
I'm sick to death of the evil English character trope. Mind you, I am English so I'm biased.
Well, Jonathan Harris was born in the Bronx, New York. The accent he put on for the stage and screen was the same kind of "Mid-Atlantic" American/British hybrid that was popular with American actors for a couple of generations before him (like Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant). As Harris liked to put it, "I'm not British, just affected."
I never thought he sounded English. But as @Christopher pointed out, he wasn't.
Let's not confuse the actor with the character. The actor wasn't English but to many British people he sounded like an American attempting to do a received pronunciation (RP) English accent. Maybe the script established Dr Smith as American - I don't recall. The film used two English bad guys - Gary Oldman as Smith and Edward Fox as his controller. That was pushing the trope too far.
Like I said, the "mid-Atlantic" accent was a standard conceit among American actors for generations. It wasn't associated exclusively with villains, since notable lead actors like Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn affected it too. Here's an interesting article about its origins and influence:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-accent-took-old-hollywood-by-storm
The trope of using British actors to play villains is not meant to reflect negatively on British morality. If anything, it's a compliment to British actors. Villains are often considered to be the best, most interesting characters in fiction, the roles that demand the most from an actor. The ideal for cinematic villains is to be scene-stealers, compelling characters that the audience loves to watch, even when rooting against them. And villains tend to deliver big, impressive monologues, which calls for someone with theatrical training, which UK actors are more likely to have than Hollywood actors. Americans cast British actors as villains because we love their voices, their theatricality, their perceived elegance, and the like. Also, Americans hear British accents (at least RP) as conveying intelligence and sophistication. A villain with a British accent is perceived to be an educated and capable adversary, someone to be taken seriously.
Note, also, that a great many "American" lead characters in US film and television are played by British, Irish, or Australian actors adopting American accents. Even our current big-screen Superman is English, and our previous big-screen Batman was Welsh.
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