In an effort to find a better tone, creative ideas, or just something that Jax would pay for, I watched Gulliver’s Travels. Bad idea. Ted Danson was all right in Cheers, acceptable in Becker, and horrendous in Gulliver’s Travels. We can’t give Ted all the credit; someone had the foresight to not give him a tremendous amount of lines in the first twenty minutes. By the way, I did not make it past the twenty-minute mark. If you feel the need to watch it – don’t. Danson doesn’t have an accent, the Lilliputians are basically leprechauns, and the courtship of Gulliver’s wife by another man is over dramaticized.
To top it all off, the movie was done with a variety of accents, tones, and language styles. In other words, absolutely no help for my language problem. The director/writer took very little care in studying the language of Swift.
I have finally given up. I guess it’s back to waiting tables and writing short stories.
I liked the talking ponies. That was the only good part.
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