Shatner week: today's quote.
"Part of the reason I was becoming better known was what people perceived to be an unusual. Speech. Pattern. Apparently I was becoming known for. Pausing, between words, in. Unusual places. People have commented that it calls attention to the. Words, I'm saying. It provides a different kind of emphasis on a line. I have no idea where that. Came from. Possibly it comes from the fact I was working so often in so many different types of plays and television program and movies that at times I need to hesitate to remember my next words.....I understand people hear me speaking. That way. They've even put a name to it, calling it Shatnerian. As in, ah yes, the character spoke with true Shatnerian eloquence."
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"Or it could. Be that. I am just a really bad. Pretentious actor."
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Oh well done, Bill!
And well done Eddie for sharing these quotes with us.
Apart from the speech pattern there was the constipat... I mean, intense look he got on certain words. That was good too.
If it sounds like I'm knocking him, I'm not. I was watching the cartoon Star Trek recently (originally tea-time on Saturdays for those reading the other nostalgic thread) and he's really a rather good voice-over artist.
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"And then more recently I noticed that. People were comparing my speech patterns with. Those of the present encumbent in the White House."
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BigSis: Surely there should. Be a full. Stop between "encumbent" and "in"? :D
(This is. Getting. Addictive)
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I. know I, think we should. All. Maybe just consider. Talking like. this all the. Time.
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This is what I. Think OF as. Weatherese it's the WAY, weather. PRESENTERS talk as if they're. PLAYING Bottom playing Pyramus IN, Midsummer Night's Dream, with. All the pauses AND the stresses In the wrong place.
eg Wet. AND windy.
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Eddie (5),
Including. While presenting. PM?
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Didn't Tony. Blair. Use to. Talk like. That?
You know? Pretty honest. straight kind of. Guy? Remember him?
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Try. Not to anna. See
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Didn't. Ernest Hemming. Way. Write a bit. Like that?
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annasee (8):
Tony Blair as Captain Kirk?
"Hey. Look. You know, Captain's Log. We, you know, met the Klingons. And, look, they're a proud. People. With their own culture. And I respect that. So when Commander Kor demanded. My surrender. I said to him, 'Hey, I hear what you're. Saying. But I. Did. Not. Enter. The Neutral Zone. And if I had. I would have been. Perfectly. Justified due to the intelligence that. The Romulans had a disruptor beam. That could be fired within 45 milliseconds.' Spock is eyeing up my command chair again. I told him I'd step aside at the end of the five-year mission. Or maybe the next one..."
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Captain Kirk spoke with "Shatnerian eloquence?" C'mon, the script writers gave Kirk some of the dumbest lines ever uttered on American television.
"And Mr. Spock, send down some heaters. Da Federation is takin' over dis planet." Sometimes I laughed so hard you'd think the comedy was intentional.
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The first "a" in "Shatnerian" in my opinion is redundant, Eddie.
"Pauses" and looks at the camera meaningfully. I am a Shakesperian - albeit Canadian - actor who appeared in the "Judgement at Nuremberg" film with the wonder who is called "Spencer Tracy" and am now reduced to a space sitcom?
May I suggest replacing that redundant "a" with an "i", Eddie? No offence, Bill.
That wasn't so much a quote as a small book.
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Somehow I'm, reminded..... nightly by the BBC weather presenters that they too went........ to the. Shatner school of speech..........and drama. Expecting precipitation in the.........west.
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Poor Bill Shatner; he is really so "mannered". Not like other Canadians at all really.
He was really goodin the early days of Captain Kirk, but that's all really. Perhaps it has gone to his head?
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Meanwhile another 'lost episode' has been discovered.
Kirk and Spock arrive at a small paved clearing. There is a black door. They wander towards it and there is a puff of smoke. A man with a sparkly running suit with padded shoulders appears.
Kirk: Who are you
Ming: I am Ming the merciless. Kneel when you address me.
Kirk: I'd rather not..housemaids knee you know.
(Ming twists the jewel of a ring on his finger and an ear splitting noise screeches out){wowwowwowaaaa}
Ming: Kneel, now.
(Kirk and Spock fight the ray but are unable to prevent it forcing them down. Ming switches it off.)
Kirk: Who are you?
Ming: I should have been in charge for longer. I was in charge but they said I was too old. But I am not too old am I?
Spock: Clearly not.
Kirk: What do you want with us?
Ming: I want power.
Kirk: Oh that's easy, I saw a tv box over there. Should be a socket in there.
(Noise){wowwowwowaaa}
Kirk: Okay, I get it, no gags
Spock: He appears to have no sense of humour or your 'gags' do not work through the universal translator.
Kirk: How can we help you?
Ming: I want to take my rightful place in there.
Kirk: Go ahead. Press the doorbell.
(aside to Spock) are we on?
Spock: Yes captain.
Ming: I will be a great leader.
Kirk: (aside to Spock) That's what they all say.
(Ming presses the doorbell and there is a large flash and all that is left is his smoking boots.
Kirk: Another one bites the dust.
Spock: I did not see any dust.
Kirk: It's an idiom
Spock: Ah. What is an idiom?
Kirk: You are...
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For all you hornhonkers, Google youtube and look at the Clarabelle the Clown talks thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s360VT01hmI
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