what's going on with the accent?
Whay does he put on an accent, when Kubrick's not even English??!
shareAlan Conway was English. It just adds to the ridiculousness of the situation.
It is Malkovich who is putting on the accent. Not very well either, if you ask me.
PArt of the joke was that very few people knew what Kubrick's voice sounded like. He had lived in England for over 20 years but was born and raised in New York.
Recently, I discovered that if you want to know what Kubrick sounded like, listen to Peter Sellers as the President in Dr. Strangelove. Sellers was doing a Kubrick impersonation.
actually its Sellers in Lolita who's doing the Kubrick impersonation.
shareDidn't you notice that he did a different accent each time? He clearly wasn't aiming for accuracy. He was having fun. And there's something almost more believable about a director having an eccentric manner and speech than if he'd been average and boring. If the people he conned had never found out the truth, their interaction with him would have remained a highlight of their lives, a wonderful, exciting, unusual memory of a one of a kind experience with someone strange and fascinating. It's almost a better story meeting Conway than if they'd really met Kubrick. Funny.
share"If the people he conned had never found out the truth, their interaction with him would have remained a highlight of their lives, a wonderful, exciting, unusual memory of a one of a kind experience with someone strange and fascinating."
But Conway didn't con everyone he met. There are probably a few people who just simply bought him some drinks or gave him cab fare and still think that they had a momentary brush with Kubrick himself. It also makes me curious about the origin of the ruse itself. Conway probably stumbled across it by accident. Was he in a bar drunk one night and thought as a practical joke it would be funny to see if he could get someone to believe he was Kubrick? How many of us would have at least tried to do that as practical joke? Did he then stumble upon the profitability of his imitation later?
I thought the accent was all over the place to show that Conway wasn't the smoothest conman, the same way he didn't even research Kubrick to impersonate him.
shareDid you all notice how he even morphed accents multiple time in the middle of a single conversation or speech? I found it both annoying and funny.
shareI think he had a few accents that he used for Kubrick so that he could play a different character depending on who he was trying to con. Just like how he didn't tell everyone he came in contact with that he would put them in his movie, he conned them in many different ways depending on their personality and how gullible they were. He played to their image of an ellusive director, and to their weak points.
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I found that funny too, it just made his whole pretending more amusing to watch.
shareRecently, I discovered that if you want to know what Kubrick sounded like, listen to Peter Sellers as the President in Dr. Strangelove. Sellers was doing a Kubrick impersonation................................actually its Sellers in Lolita who's doing the Kubrick impersonation.
I'VE GOTTA SEE THIS FILM.
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no, sounds interesting.....
"Other than that...lifes a bowl of Palmolive and I'm soaking in it"