Sunday, October 19, 2008

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Although not everyone actually answered my questions, question 1 was the question I received the most actual answers on (that could be easily graphed). There were too many "I don't know" answers on the other questions to have enough answers. Some of the films that most stuck out to people because of the way the characters spoke were Pulp Fiction, James Bond movies, Once Upon a Time in China, Forrest Gump, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Some of the answers to question 3 were "No, I don't", Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Eagle Eye, The Miracle Worker, Selena, A Walk to Remember, Save the Last Dance, Baby Mama, and The Little Mermaid. About half of these movies apparently have no villains, while in the movies that do, the villain does speak in a way that identifies them as a villain. Most people could not name some characters in different movies that speak the same way, but some of the responses were "any Jane Austen film" (I should have specified that it should be different actors as well), Bond villains, "young American people", and "important people in gov't." The characters who speak the same way generally have the same kind of personalities.

I did receive an interesting answer to question 5. One person noted that HAL 9000 (from 2001: A Space Odyssey) and KITT (from the TV show Knight Rider) speak in pretty much the same way. Neither of these characters are human, but they are both seemingly all-powerful computers. For comparison, HAL and KITT. (NOTE: The KITT link is actually a website with a large collection of KITT sound files.)

Top right: HAL 9000
Top center: KITT (the car)

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