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4. French Buffy villains When the French dubbers were first starting to deal with Buffy contre les vampires, they came up with a little sound-effecty gizmo that renders voices with a harsh, electronically-deepened snarl. When one of our undead characters goes to vamp-face, they hit the switch and suddenly Mercedes McNabb's Harmony is talking like Linda Blair's angrier, possessed-ier sister. It points up the sudden transformation to something entirely alien, and it kind of works. That attention to malevolent detail carries over to other Buffyverse villains - glib Messr. Trick; oleaginously provincial politico Mayor Wilikins; an Adam whose growled bristled speeches actually flow (granted, if you're going to outdo the original actor anywhere, Adam is a good place to take your shot). And then there's the guy whose effectively-villainous bacon is saved by the sound board; the guy who only has to sound adult and intense and effortlessly sophisticated and a touch put off by Buffy's adolescent survival games, and let the FX twist that into something alien...
5. French The Prom Because the French dubbers needed a guy to play Buffy's mysterious, kind of broody, older boyfriend. They hired, basically, the voice of the Parisian dreamboat from every coffee commercial, soap-opera writer, and bored suburban housewife's daydream. French Angel is great at being Buffy's deep, sophisticated, worldly-wise romantic foil; they kind of lose him around the corner sometimes when he's supposed to play goofy. (In The Yoko Factor, there's that moment post Riley-fight when Buffy and Angel both break into giggles at how ridiculously macho he's being? French Buffy breaks into laughter; French Angel snorts once, ruefully, and waits for her to finish.) He's not the most versatile member of the ensemble, but he gets results occasionally. He remixes into a good Angelus. And then there's the one episode when he's about to leave the ensemble, when Buffy has asserted her independence and been shown her worth, when The Sundays start up "Wild Horses", when Giles steps aside and Buffy turns around and a voice of velvet over steel asks, simply, "Will Madame dance?".
Published by :ormondsacker 2008-03-16 05:18:14.0
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