Keitel's performance


Now I don't care for the razzies but sometimes they do get it right. However watching this film I see his brilliant performance and think "how does this performance get nominated for worst anything?" Just my opinion but what do y'all think?

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Because Judas didn't have a Brooklyn accent.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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Judas didn't speak with an English accent, speak King-James-ish English, or even speak English at all. As has been rightly pointed out by Paul Schrader, unless you're having Judas and Jesus speak Aramaic (as was done in The Passion of the Christ) you're not being true to history.

I understand that Judas having a New York accent runs contrary to the Bible-movie convention of having characters speak in faux-Biblical English, but unconventional in this case isn't any less authentic than the conventional approach.

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That's true, but it still took me out of the "reality" of the performance. What if Judas spoke with a heavy Chinese accent in broken English? Or a thick Indian accent? It wouldn't be any less authentic, yes, but still heavily distracting.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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Judas was Jewish, so I'd argue that a heavy Chinese accent or a thick Indian accent is less authentic than a Brooklyn accent. A Brooklyn accent at least brings to mind an area where there are a lot of Jews.

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That is incredibly offensive. I don't understand why you had to use antisemitic undertones in your post.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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Really? What in your mind is "incredibly offensive"? That Judas was Jewish? (All of the disciples were.) That a lot of Jewish people live in Brooklyn? (See www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-residents-jews-new-study-finds-article-1.1100080.) Or are you just pulling my leg?

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Please don't post your bigoted responses to me anymore.

Oh, and one last thing: I wonder if you would talk this big if it weren't for you being behind your computer screen. I know some tough, burly Jewish gangster types that would make you pee your pants if you ever went near them. So take your hate somewhere else.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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Ah I see, you were (and still are) pulling my leg. Happy trails!

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Maybe racism and ignorance is a joke to you, but it's not to me.

My cursor is hovering over the "Ignore" button. Keep 'em coming, tough guy.

Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life!

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I'm not seeing the racism in his posts. Could you possibly give me the evidence?

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I'm afraid TrampLordSwanson (that'll do!) was not joking at all and is only letting his paranoia transpire through his/her pointless accusations. It's just one of these nutcases that do a lot of damage to the Jewish cause and the world's perception of what it means to be a Jew in 2016. Paranoid reactions to the mere mention of the word "Jew" or Jewish" in a perfectly objective opinion about something - here, the mere, innocent fact that Keitel's Brooklyn accent may sound less outlandish from the mouth of Judas, a Jew, than an Far Eastern accent (whether from India or China) where Jewish populations are less preeminent, sounded perfectly harmless and unprejudiced to me. Whether the offended poster is Jewish or not is irrelevant here: (s)he clearly overreacted and there was a complete lack of racism from the person who wrote the comment.

It's this type of reaction that reinforces antisemitism in those that are already prejudiced. Fortunately, the vast majority of the Jewish people I know have more sense and judgement, as well as the greatest sense of humor.

- But you can't have her again as costume designer, Mr. Hitchcock!
- Really, Peggy? Give me Head!

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