Character voices

[Fabio Blanco]

For me, the voice of Donald is normal... to whisper when works in the vault,
for chat with HD&L, for talk himself worry for something...
The another guy from the cartoons, well I don't know... he isn't very human,
is a duck...

And scottish accent... sorry, not many accents in my mental Spanish dubbed
version.

FABIO



----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Wright <nicodemuslegend at cp.fuller.edu>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Character voices


> Katie Sullivan <vazali at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >There has been some discussion lately about Donald's voice on
> >DuckTales and in other animated incarnations.  Although it's
> >perfect for the sorts of situations Donald encountered in the
> >early cartoons, IMHO his squawking, quacking voice isn't
> >particularly well suited to Barks-scale adventure stories. <snip>...
> when I read the
> >comics I imagine Donald as having a relatively normal voice.
> >That may sound odd to others, but am I alone in this?  The early
> >cartoon Donald and the Barksian Donald are like two totally
> >different characters, really, and I imagine them as having
> >different voices.
>
> I have to admit that I've thought much the same thing.  It's just
> difficult for me to imagine those long, complex sentences being voiced
> completely in Donald's peculiar brand of unintellible English.  Nor do
> I see much indication in the stories I've read of anyone else having
> trouble understanding him.  (Granted, this was only done in the
> cartoons in the DuckTales era, where practically every time Donald
> opened his mouth, someone had to say "What'd he say?")
>
> >I also imagine Scrooge with a Scottish accent that was much
> >heavier when he was younger, but gradually became less
> >pronounced as he traveled the world (in Rosa's Lo$).  By the
> >"current" time frame I imagine his accent as considerably less
> >noticable than it is in DuckTales.  (Although in the animated
> >form Alan Young does a wonderful job with the character.  I just
> >see the animated Scrooge and comics Scrooge as, again, two
> >versions of the character.)
>
> Likewise, I can imagine Scrooge speaking with an accent, but not a
> thick one.  He's lived in America for the lion's share of his life by
> now, and I can speak from experience that it doesn't take long to pick
> up part of the accent of whatever region I live in, although my
> native-Californian is never completely gone.
>
> >How do you all imagine their voices?  Given that many of you
> >don't speak English as a primary language, I'd be interested to
> >hear your unique spins on this.
> >
> >
> >Katie Sullivan
> >http://www.sullivanet.com/
> >
>
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