The Dialogue
I heard a rumor once (not on the Net) that the dialogue in this film sounded 'weird' because it was originally written in blank verse. If so, it was at least an interesting concept.
shareI'm having a hell of a time making out the ye olde wacky dialects and unfortunately any captions for this movie are nowhere to be found online..
Thank you. I suspected it was my hearing going bad.
share[red_heart_suit]
It was written in iambic pentameter, which is pretty much the opposite of blank verse. That's a highly structured set of lines that have pauses and syllables and rhymes in specific places. For example, an "iamb" is a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in "delay").
It is one of many poetry metrics. My favorite is dactylic tetrameter.
It's a whole lot of fun at first, but a reeeal drag to get everything right line after line after line.
It would have been a huge HELL of a job to write the whole script for the time in the past like that.
If they went to all that trouble, why did they revert to that goofy, bible-like speech?
My guess is that they just gave up since it was so timeconsuming.
-flk
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