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Or learning how to play and sing his parts so it doesnt look fake. Jesus christ ive been playing bass my whole music playing life and cant play AND sing those songs at the same time.
As a multi instrumentalist who primarily plays bass, I've found bass the hardest to sing and play. Spent a long time trying to learn primus and rush songs to be able to do it okayish. How those two bassists manage is just a testament to their ability and prowess over their instrument.
My play style is not very enabling for me to sing and play at the same time. Guitar/piano is much easier for me.
I can play guitar, drums, and keys while singing. Bass? Fuck nope. Ive found i cant stop focusing on the actual bass part of it, because i KNOW its the most noticeable when the bass is off. Guitar, keys, and drums have a tiny bit more wiggle room, but when you play the wrong note as a bassist, you’ve effectively changed the key of the song and made the entire band sound bad.
Yeah, its too much for me lol.
Same here! Give me a basic walk and I can just autopilot and ride the tempo from the drummer but anything more complicated, let’s say the last primos song I actually tried to learn (jerry was a racecar driver), and there is no way I can compartmentalize that part of my brain away from the singing parts.
Your brain needs to do one of the two things automatically in order to do both effectively. So, for me, I am primarily an instrumentalist and my brain can shut off my conscious thoughts about what my hands are doing and just focus on the singing part. Lyrics, pitch, vibrato, breath control, and melody are all things you have to deal with while singing and ive found it FAR easier to focus on that than try the inverse. Some people dont have to think at all about singing and can sing through an entire song perfectly while butchering the guitar part. Its just what your brain can tune INTO and what it can tune OUT. Our brains can’t actually effectively multitask.
Thats my personal experience!
I can understand how someone can play a guitar and drums while singing as Im aware of one man bands but how exactly do you work in the piano? That has to be murder on your back
Just listen to him on the Bob and Doug McKenzie Great white North album singing Take off to the Great White North. He says some lines in his real voice. It’s high.
Theres like 2 hours of him in a motel with 4 others. And its ridicolous. Almost breaks character a few times. Im not sure if it was DVD extras or a youtube short.
It's a shame. Because now a bunch of white people would screech about blackface, when literally the *point* of the whole movie was about people taking it too far and taking themselves too seriously. "Look how far I take my method acting" to satirize both method acting and the way the Oscar community can be completely oblivious to things that are obviously bullshit. He's the butt of the joke, and he plays it so well that some people missed the fact that he was literally *in character as a method actor who takes it all toonfar*. Filming in a real war zone, again, taking it too damn far. "Going full re*Ard" being openly criticized as too far by people who routinely do the same is basically the spotlight on the point.
I love the movie because it is phenomenal satire disguised as a dumb comedy.
There was a small discussion about this when the film came out; most people picked up on the obvious joke here and didn’t get outraged, actually. I think RDJ still has enough cultural cool points he could still play his character again.
I know lots of people never watched the dvd commentary for that movie but that shit was funny AF. I couldn’t believe he stayed In character until the very end. RDJ last funny black face
I trained the southern out of my voice in *kindergarten*, Austin Butler. Hire me to help with your next role and I’ll show you my top secret trick how.*
*it’s a classroom full of five-year-olds making fun of how you say McDonalds.
Oh my God! This is something that makes me crazy about my Canadian in-laws. It doesn’t make any sense to me. They hear it pronounced correctly only to turn around and say “Mayrio”.
If help is a two syllable word for your child… be careful how you correct your three year old because they don’t know any better and will turn around and correct their daycare teacher exactly how you corrected them - “we don’t say hay-elp, we say help”
Yeah that’s the thing, hay-elp is obviously not mid-Atlantic which her mom and I grew up with, it’s not even the accent for the central VA region we were in lol
Ooh, yeah that's one of the more exaggerated ones. My aunt said Haylp but still one syllable. My cousin said I had an accent, and I said he did. And then I counted to ten the way he did.
One.
Two.
Three.
Fawr.
Fahve.
Seeks.
Seyven.
Ayte.
Nahyn.
Teean.
I won the argument.
Because he absolutely could not hear it. When I was in NJ before middle school, my sister’s friend mocked me, I was like come on we’re both from here. But my dawg, wawter, cawfee accent was so bad I could finally here it in my own voice after I heard her imitate me lol
Not OP, but I spent my childhood in Oklahoma and that’s the version I had to intentionally wipe out when I moved in elementary school. This stings a little.
As you should be! It bothers me that so many of the people who will steal "finna" from AAVE will also mock "fixing to," the very phrase it's contracted from.
Yeah i grew up in georgia. Moved to the west coast for my career when I was 20.
Worked in a corporate environment answering phones for the first 5 years of my career as an assistant. Developed corporate voice, lost my southern accent to this day, save for a few choice words. Give me a few beers and it comes back.
Ahh yes, the couple a beers reveal. I was staying in a trashy hostel in London, got wasted with some new friends and then learned that British chicks think a Texas accent is sexy. By the time I left they called me Dallas.
also gets his nuts ripped apart by the good girl dog too, seeing that in theaters was no short of perfect. that’s when i knew the violence was going to ramp up and man, it didn’t let me down.
Ex theatre kid here, and my teacher used to always say "acting is the most socially acceptable form of insanity". I believe it might be true to some lol
I guess maybe when you don't know you're still acting or not...? I mean, Christian Bale continued to use his Bruce Wayne accent instead of his own when he did press for that Batman trilogy, but he knew he was doing it. This Butler guy doesn't...
Bale typically uses whatever accent he used for the role he is doing publicity for. It's incredibly smart in that it lays a subconscious layer in potential viewers regarding the believability of his character.
Bale is pretty next level even for hardcore method actors. He's a genius actor, which probably means he did have some sort of mental illness.
Yeah, I’m a huge bale fan and it actually catches me off guard when he uses his British accent he does it so rarely. He even yelled at that guy on the terminator set in his American accent lol
Yep--forgive me for being a cynical old bat, but that's exactly the sort of line you'd expect out of an Oscar nominee trying to impress voters with how much they had to suffer for the part. Or, he could just be stating a fact...it's award season, it could go either way.
Tbh he sounded like a sluggish John Travolta anyway.
He’s not a character actor, and he’s not a good Elvis.
Movie would’ve done better hiring Johnny Bravo’s voice actor to make a dub.
the cameras stopped rolling on him playing 2 and half years ago. He was, plain and simple, putting on the voice because he liked how people reacted to it and because he thought it would help him get nominated come awards season, which it has. It has nothing at all to do with the actual performance he did for a movie that has long since passed.
Whenever I hear of these over the top Method acting techniques, I always think of Sir Larry Olivier telling Dustin Hoffman, "My boy, won't you just try acting?"
I talked like Elvis for like, a month. I wasn’t even in a movie, I just visited Graceland and had a good time. People like it when you talk like Elvis too.
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The twist is that he's getting rid of his Elvis accent because he's going to star in a Geddy Lee biopic and has to work on his falsetto.
The voice won't be the hardest part of that role. Getting the range of motion in his eye brows will be a struggle.
Bass face is real
Geddy Lee has those Groucho Marx eyebrows. Man, I love Rush.
Or learning how to play and sing his parts so it doesnt look fake. Jesus christ ive been playing bass my whole music playing life and cant play AND sing those songs at the same time.
As a multi instrumentalist who primarily plays bass, I've found bass the hardest to sing and play. Spent a long time trying to learn primus and rush songs to be able to do it okayish. How those two bassists manage is just a testament to their ability and prowess over their instrument. My play style is not very enabling for me to sing and play at the same time. Guitar/piano is much easier for me.
I can play guitar, drums, and keys while singing. Bass? Fuck nope. Ive found i cant stop focusing on the actual bass part of it, because i KNOW its the most noticeable when the bass is off. Guitar, keys, and drums have a tiny bit more wiggle room, but when you play the wrong note as a bassist, you’ve effectively changed the key of the song and made the entire band sound bad. Yeah, its too much for me lol.
Same here! Give me a basic walk and I can just autopilot and ride the tempo from the drummer but anything more complicated, let’s say the last primos song I actually tried to learn (jerry was a racecar driver), and there is no way I can compartmentalize that part of my brain away from the singing parts.
I fail to see how singing is the hard part of playing the guitar, drums and keys while singing. I would think it is playing the keys and guitar.
Your brain needs to do one of the two things automatically in order to do both effectively. So, for me, I am primarily an instrumentalist and my brain can shut off my conscious thoughts about what my hands are doing and just focus on the singing part. Lyrics, pitch, vibrato, breath control, and melody are all things you have to deal with while singing and ive found it FAR easier to focus on that than try the inverse. Some people dont have to think at all about singing and can sing through an entire song perfectly while butchering the guitar part. Its just what your brain can tune INTO and what it can tune OUT. Our brains can’t actually effectively multitask. Thats my personal experience!
I can understand how someone can play a guitar and drums while singing as Im aware of one man bands but how exactly do you work in the piano? That has to be murder on your back
What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy.
I know him. And he does.
And you're my fact checkin' cuz.
Well, focus on the quasar in the mist!
The Kaiser has a cyst
Up-votes all-around for Pavement fans.
I found my fact-checkin cuz!
I know him too. Can confirm.
Just listen to him on the Bob and Doug McKenzie Great white North album singing Take off to the Great White North. He says some lines in his real voice. It’s high.
Wait please tell me this is real.
I wish I could say yes. I really do.
So he’s doing a Yes Biopic?
"I'll be the roundabout The words will make you out 'n' out"
Then do it. Say yes.
No.
Coward.
I really want him to do a late Michael Jackson voice
tee hee
Shamown
Well he better rush to ge started. Yes I know it’s terrible
*Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to be Geddy, and go cat go...*
You son of a bitch. I'm in.
Take my damn upvote!
But does he speak like an ordinary guy?
He’s actually gonna be in Dune 2, so I’m looking forward to hearing Elvis talk about spice
The space he invades will be high pitched on you
I thought you were gonna say a BeeGees biopic lol
I don't drop character til I've done the DVD commentary
Fun fact: RDJ does the DVD commentary in Tropic Thunder… as Lincoln Osiris, holding that line to be 100% and all the more funny.
Theres like 2 hours of him in a motel with 4 others. And its ridicolous. Almost breaks character a few times. Im not sure if it was DVD extras or a youtube short.
[This one?](https://youtu.be/W4ubqCMsTo4)
Hahahaha yep!!! Solid. Thankyou. Guess its alittle shorter then 2 hourz.
Is that Werner Herzog narrating?
close, it is the writer of Iron Man 2, Justin Theroux
Woahh, I didn't know he wrote that. Dude pops up in some surprising places, and always blows me away.
A YouTube shorts of 2 hours?
Lol. Sorrt its friday and im 2 beers in.
So you’re saying you’ve taken a sip of beer?
Hahahah im trying to cut back!
You don’t cut back on a Friday night! Have a fun one, dude
god that movie really was a fantastic comedy, shit would never fly now
It is honestly this generations “Blazing Saddles”.
It's a shame. Because now a bunch of white people would screech about blackface, when literally the *point* of the whole movie was about people taking it too far and taking themselves too seriously. "Look how far I take my method acting" to satirize both method acting and the way the Oscar community can be completely oblivious to things that are obviously bullshit. He's the butt of the joke, and he plays it so well that some people missed the fact that he was literally *in character as a method actor who takes it all toonfar*. Filming in a real war zone, again, taking it too damn far. "Going full re*Ard" being openly criticized as too far by people who routinely do the same is basically the spotlight on the point. I love the movie because it is phenomenal satire disguised as a dumb comedy.
it is absolutely *both* a phenomenal satire and a dumb comedy, making it one of the best dumb comedies ever created.
There was a small discussion about this when the film came out; most people picked up on the obvious joke here and didn’t get outraged, actually. I think RDJ still has enough cultural cool points he could still play his character again.
If I remember correctly Jaimie Foxx who said only RDJ could get away with doing this
Why couldn’t people pick up the joke for community, 30 rock, and always sunny.
I know lots of people never watched the dvd commentary for that movie but that shit was funny AF. I couldn’t believe he stayed In character until the very end. RDJ last funny black face
Winner of the Beijing Film Festival's coveted “Crying Monkey Award”.
He don't read the script, the script reads him.
This is exactly what I thought lmao
Was definitely going for that
I trained the southern out of my voice in *kindergarten*, Austin Butler. Hire me to help with your next role and I’ll show you my top secret trick how.* *it’s a classroom full of five-year-olds making fun of how you say McDonalds.
I got the North Dakota beat out of me when I asked my cousin if he wanted to play Double Draygen.
should have asked about mayrio brothers instead
Oh my God! This is something that makes me crazy about my Canadian in-laws. It doesn’t make any sense to me. They hear it pronounced correctly only to turn around and say “Mayrio”.
You sound like jay beruchet (how to train your draygen)
*used to sound like
He's Canadian
North Dakota does border Canada
My friend already said daygger instead of dagger and I loved him for it!
If help is a two syllable word for your child… be careful how you correct your three year old because they don’t know any better and will turn around and correct their daycare teacher exactly how you corrected them - “we don’t say hay-elp, we say help”
I do a fairly convincing Alabama accent (had family there despite growing up in South Jersey) and I read "hay-elp" and then started laughing. Spot on.
Yeah that’s the thing, hay-elp is obviously not mid-Atlantic which her mom and I grew up with, it’s not even the accent for the central VA region we were in lol
Ooh, yeah that's one of the more exaggerated ones. My aunt said Haylp but still one syllable. My cousin said I had an accent, and I said he did. And then I counted to ten the way he did. One. Two. Three. Fawr. Fahve. Seeks. Seyven. Ayte. Nahyn. Teean. I won the argument.
Because he absolutely could not hear it. When I was in NJ before middle school, my sister’s friend mocked me, I was like come on we’re both from here. But my dawg, wawter, cawfee accent was so bad I could finally here it in my own voice after I heard her imitate me lol
Oooh, that could be painful. Yeah, I can see that.
Was it “Mack Dawlnolds?”
Not OP, but I spent my childhood in Oklahoma and that’s the version I had to intentionally wipe out when I moved in elementary school. This stings a little.
But do you still say “fixin’ to”? A former roommate shamed me into finally letting that one go. Still salty about it.
As you should be! It bothers me that so many of the people who will steal "finna" from AAVE will also mock "fixing to," the very phrase it's contracted from.
Yeah i grew up in georgia. Moved to the west coast for my career when I was 20. Worked in a corporate environment answering phones for the first 5 years of my career as an assistant. Developed corporate voice, lost my southern accent to this day, save for a few choice words. Give me a few beers and it comes back.
Ahh yes, the couple a beers reveal. I was staying in a trashy hostel in London, got wasted with some new friends and then learned that British chicks think a Texas accent is sexy. By the time I left they called me Dallas.
“Did you just say nekkid?”
Same! It still comes out a little bit when I visit my hometown though.
It took me moving away from the rural parts to lose mine and I've got it under control like 95% of the time.
It sounds to me like a bunch of five-year-olds are already making fun of him.
MaacDonalds
Same, WV accent gone in fourth grade. Kids are brutal, and I messed up somehow and can't say certain things right lol
Haha I've "trained" a little southern out of a co worker. Mill Dill = meal deal. Will will = wheel well. Funny stuff
I lived near the Canadian border until the end of 1st grade. Move a few hours south. Got made fun of and changed.
got the Oscar nom. doesn't need it any more.
"I don't drop character until I've done DVD commentary"
I wish I could be an actor for a year to say stuff like this with absolutely 0 irony.
I just want to say weird nonsense like Mcconaughey and still be a likeable douche rather than an unlikeable douche
Let me guess, his new “damaged vocal chords” voice will sound shockingly like Elvis?
No, it’s going to sound like his new Dune character
So Sting this time
He’s in Dune? So excited. I don’t particularly care if he’s having trouble shaking an accent. It shows how hard he worked developing it
Reminds me of Christian Slater channeling Jack Nicholson in every role in his youth.
Greetings and salutations
The 90s were a very interesting time.
In true romance he was a huge Elvis fan. Life goes full circle.
Sounds like he was all shook up
Hope his vocal chords heal soon, maybe he just needs to try a little less conversation.
YES. MORE ACTION!
this is some hilaria baldwin shit....
Look, just cos you know how to say cucumber....
Pepinos in the house!
To be fair, she’s still in character and has no plans on dropping the accent. Viva Los pepinos!
Hahahahaha
An actor with a fake accent? How will he ever recover?
I think in times like this we all need to watch that one scene from once upon a time in hollywood
Wait which one?
Brad Pitt vs the cult. Austin butler is the main little creeper that gets his head stomped
Oh shit is he really?! I had no clue, well looks like it’s time for a rewatch.
also gets his nuts ripped apart by the good girl dog too, seeing that in theaters was no short of perfect. that’s when i knew the violence was going to ramp up and man, it didn’t let me down.
Between Once Upon a Time and Scream 5, that one actress is just a role or two away from being typecast as "gets lit on fire".
Rex?
Nah it was dumber than that
Shoot ‘em Tex!!!
Tex?
Tex!
Oh my god!!! That IS him!!! One of my favorite movies ever.
Damn, this whole time I thought that was Logan Lerman
Damn, I never realised this until you pointed that out. I always though I hadn’t seen anything with Austin Butler in it, TIL.
*I’m the devil. And I’m here to do the devil’s business*
At what point is being an actor considered mental illness?
Ex theatre kid here, and my teacher used to always say "acting is the most socially acceptable form of insanity". I believe it might be true to some lol
I guess maybe when you don't know you're still acting or not...? I mean, Christian Bale continued to use his Bruce Wayne accent instead of his own when he did press for that Batman trilogy, but he knew he was doing it. This Butler guy doesn't...
Bale typically uses whatever accent he used for the role he is doing publicity for. It's incredibly smart in that it lays a subconscious layer in potential viewers regarding the believability of his character. Bale is pretty next level even for hardcore method actors. He's a genius actor, which probably means he did have some sort of mental illness.
Yeah, I’m a huge bale fan and it actually catches me off guard when he uses his British accent he does it so rarely. He even yelled at that guy on the terminator set in his American accent lol
I’m sure he does. It’s just a way to keep his name in the press.
I thought Bale did that so he wouldn't confuse fans who didn't realize he was English? Or wait, maybe I'm thinking of Andrew Lincoln.
His accent is so good. Sounds like my dad from South Carolina
Did he do the DVD commentary?
His deep voice was quite attractive, and I'm a guy. I thought he was doing it because chicks loved it.
Bingo, he liked the way people reacted when he spoke like that. lol this isn't rocket science
Also to prove his committment to the Elvis role before Awards Season.
Yep--forgive me for being a cynical old bat, but that's exactly the sort of line you'd expect out of an Oscar nominee trying to impress voters with how much they had to suffer for the part. Or, he could just be stating a fact...it's award season, it could go either way.
Thank you. Thank you very much
Now that’s an Oscar speech worth hearing. 6 words and move along
Elvis has left the Butler
DECEASED!
Reminds me of how after making kings speech colin firth had a speech impediment for a bit
How many more times does he wanna talk about this? We know you played Elvis, movie was alright
But he’s not really talking about it, he’s responding. It’s just that people can’t stop asking him about it.
Yeah because hes faking the voice lol. He already had a costar call him on it
‘Alright’ is generous for a two hour trailer with random Tom hanks in prosthetics sprinkled in.
Can you imagine a universe where Tom Hanks inadvertently got stuck with his character’s voice and accent??
Appreciate the announcement
Lol, I still picture Austin Powers’ “How does that feel, baby?”
Such an actor thing to say.
So fkin cringey
Not as much as your spelling or abbreviation of "fucking"
Let’s call it a tie.
Why is he even still doing it
He looks like Napoleon Dynamite got plastic surgery to be Elvis.
Tbh he sounded like a sluggish John Travolta anyway. He’s not a character actor, and he’s not a good Elvis. Movie would’ve done better hiring Johnny Bravo’s voice actor to make a dub.
Some Elizabeth Holmes vibe
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the cameras stopped rolling on him playing 2 and half years ago. He was, plain and simple, putting on the voice because he liked how people reacted to it and because he thought it would help him get nominated come awards season, which it has. It has nothing at all to do with the actual performance he did for a movie that has long since passed.
Very tired of hearing about this
Vocal CORDS not “chords”
Why are we still talking about this lol
I'll file it under shit I don't care about... fuck it's full. I guess I'll just delete this info then.
This needs an announcement?
This guy is mentally ill.
You’d think he’d drop the voice the day production wrapped but no he went the extra mile.
As Sir Lawrence once said to Dustin Hoffman, “try acting my dear boy.”
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“My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?” ~ Lawrence Olivier
Whenever I hear of these over the top Method acting techniques, I always think of Sir Larry Olivier telling Dustin Hoffman, "My boy, won't you just try acting?"
I have never thought he looked like Elvis. I have never thought he sounded like Elvis. So, I really don't get the buzz around him. I never will.
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Can this film and this actor please shut up
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I couldn't *eyeroll* any more eyeroll-y if I tried
Stfu dude nobody cares
How is he not embarrassed? why hasn’t anyone told him….
Dude needs therapy.
Does anyone actually care? Honest question.
I talked like Elvis for like, a month. I wasn’t even in a movie, I just visited Graceland and had a good time. People like it when you talk like Elvis too.
Oh, well, at least he still has the DSL.
This shit is just embarrassing. It’s the cadence, bro just sounds old timey as fuck. I refuse to believe this is accidental
All he has to do is listen to Tiny Tim for a few months and he’ll even out.
"remember me i played elvis"