![]() ![]() ![]() It's been about a decade since I watched his other films (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and Argo), but I remember liking them quite a bit, and enough to say that Air feels like a return to form for Affleck as a director. After the shaky Live By Night in 2016 (which I think was affected more by executive meddling than anything else), Ben Affleck took a break from directing, and now has a mini comeback of sorts with Air. You're Michael Jordan, and your story is gonna make us want to fly. You're gonna be remembered forever, because some things are eternal. Everyone at this table will be forgotten as soon as our time here is up - except for you. We need you in these shoes not so you have meaning in your life, but so that we have meaning in ours. The rest of us just want a chance to touch that greatness. A shoe is just a shoe until somebody steps into it. And I think you already know the answer, and that's why we're all here. And what would you do then? Can you summon the will to fight on, through all the pain, and rise again? Who are you Michael? That will be the defining question of your life. It's the way down that breaks them, 'cause that's the moment when you are truly alone. You're going to be attacked, betrayed, exposed and humiliated. And we do it again, and again, and again. We build you into something that doesn't exist, and that means you have to try to be that thing all day, every day. But you know what? Once they've built you as high as they possibly can, they're gonna tear you back down - it's the most predictable pattern. You're going to change the fucking world. Man, we'll build you up into something that doesn't even exist. ![]() People are going to build you up, and God are they going to, because when you're great and new, we love you. It's an American story, and that's why Americans are gonna love it. You were cut from your high school basketball team. I'm going to look you in the eyes and I'm gonna tell you the future. Money can buy you almost anything, it can't buy you immortality. You're going to make enough money, it's not going to matter. Although Wallace lives in Lancashire, he is partial to Yorkshire's Wensleydale cheese.Sonny Vaccaro: Forget about the shoes, forget about the money. This article was again amended again on 9 June 2014 to reinstate the name of Wallace's favourite cheese. It was further amended on 4 June to remove references that suggested Wallace, one half of the animated duo Wallace and Gromit, comes from Yorkshire when he is, in fact,a Lancastrian according to the story. This article was first amended 3 June 2014 to remove a section on Kurt Geiger, which had been included in error. Next time on Pronunciation Today: does "scone" rhyme with "on" or "own"? Don't look at me like that – I don't make the rules. The same doesn't apply with rival champagne brand Veuve Clicquot: don't sound the terminal "t" like a loser. Apparently one says it this way because Monsieur Moët was of Dutch-German origin. The result should sound like " Mwet eh Shan-don" rather than "Mway e Shan-don". The "t" in Moët, somewhat counterintuitively, is sounded. As he suggests, you could always just say YSL. There's also this fun footage of a Frenchman making an oreille de cochon of trying to teaching English speakers how to say Yves Saint Laurent. Got it? "Eve san law-ron" (but don't sound either "n" too strongly). Here's how to say it: drop all the terminal letters and say the first syllable like the woman who got banished with Adam from the Garden of Eden. Yves Saint LaurentĪnother day, another hard-to-pronounce French couture brand. You don't get this sort of problem with Paul Smith. It's not pronounced "Or-dee", but " Ow-dee" – imagine you're a cowboy who drops his aitches if that's any help. Remember American war hero and actor Audie Murphy? Me neither, but his first name was pronounced "Or-dee", which – quite possibly – has led to confusion about the pronunciation of the uninteresting motor car company. That sounds unprepossessing and pretty stupid, but no more so than "Sih-NECK-doh-kee", which is how you should say synecdoche should the occasion arise. It's more like "sock-a-nee", say Saucony's people in their eye-wateringly tedious promo films. Take a female pig, the thing you put ice cream in and the kind of appreciative noise Wallace makes when he's had some fine Wensleydale cheese. SauconyĪnother trainer brand with a confusing name? You'd better believe it. Who's right? There is no Nike-like ruling on the pronunciation of Adidas. But, with respect, what do Run DMC know? This side of the pond, we wear trainers, not sneakers, and keep that "i" nice and short. Run DMC adjudicated on this vexed issue years ago in their stirring if hagiographic hip-hop paean to their footwear of choice. Long "i" or short? Wars have been fought over less. ![]()
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