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   On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:40:27 -0500, "catpandaddy"    
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   >"StarkillerT"  wrote in message   
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   >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:34:57 -0600, "Joetheone"   
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   >>>"StarkillerT"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:ib1246p2dao9koh886o9gn41ogtpf8pe2s@4ax.com...   
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   >>>> It's just plain weird to see Gaius Baltar(James Callis) playing a   
   >>>> 1940s era American scientist and speaking without the British accent.   
   >>>> Which for me make the new episodes even more surreal than they are   
   >>>> intended to be.   
   >>>> Callis does play his part quite well though.  His accent just barely   
   >>>> slips through a few times.   
   >>>   
   >>>It ended up being just a bad American accent, almost as bad as Bamber's.   
   >>>Wish they would have given him the zoot suit for BSG, though. It's a good   
   >>>look for him.   
   >>>And I think I'm going to enjoy him in this role. Looks like a good season   
   >>>for Eureka.   
   >>>   
   >> Indeed.  A lot of todays younger actors just look like they're wearing   
   >> a costume when dressing for a 30s or 40s era role.   
   >> Callis' wardrobe person did a good job of making him look like he   
   >> belonged in that suit.   
   >   
   >What is it that makes the difference?  Does a real 40s suit look fake on   
   >camera, so that they need a not-quite-authentic version which looks "on   
   >film" to be more authentic than the real deal itself?  Like using dry ice   
   >because real fog photographs with too smokelike an appearance to be   
   >convincing or something like that?   
      
   A lot of times it is the fit of the suit.  I've seen a few where the   
   suits are kinda baggy as todays male actors are on average more   
   slender than their preedecessors back then. The difference is not as   
   much the suit itself as far as authenticity goes but how the actor   
   wears it and how it fits.   
   And then  there are subtle things like Callis has the more defined   
   jawline as did a lot of folks in that era whereas a lot of todays   
   actors have the more soft rounded off jaw and chinlines.   
   Put 32 year old Ashton Kutcher in a suit like that and he looks like a   
   kid wearing his dads clothes.   
      
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