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07-21-2008, 11:37 PM
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That voice you hear in your head when you're reading something...
Anyone ever notice that when you're silently reading something, it's almost like your hearing a voice in your head reading you the words? For some reason the voice in mine sounds like Morgan Freeman, and that scares me. It really, really does.
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07-22-2008, 12:10 AM
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How do you hate Morgan Freeman? He has like the coolest voice in the world. The voice in my head sounds like me.
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07-22-2008, 12:16 AM
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I've never exprienced such a voice. I don't need some patsy to tell me my story.  
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07-22-2008, 12:38 AM
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I usually try to imagine that I'm hearing the characters' voices.Thankfully I'm a very talented voice actor, so my brain allows me to do so.
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07-22-2008, 01:07 AM
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That voice you hear in your head when you're reading something...
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You mean the one telling to kill the Pope and sexually defile the subsequent wounds in his body then fly the corpse to Israel and sprinkle his blood over the desert in order to give birth to a million screaming vaginas that will speak of the changes necessary in order for us to become one with the galactic fraternity of light? |
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07-22-2008, 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by A-L
How do you hate Morgan Freeman? He has like the coolest voice in the world.
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Second coolest, if that. I give James Earl Jones the coolest voice award.
Regardless, I'm with you on the 'the voice in my head sounds like me' bit. The only time it doesn't sound like me is when there's a bit of description accompanying the dialogue. (It doesn't last through the story though. Soon enough, the characters all go back to sounding like me.)
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07-22-2008, 04:26 AM
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I had this time when this voice was reading and it annoyed me. Now I just ignore it, but I think I'll switch to Morgan Freeman.
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07-22-2008, 04:27 AM
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No, the coolest voice is Hugh Laurie's - when he does House.
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07-22-2008, 04:34 AM
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Tiamat, you might be right. James Earl Jones has the coolest voice, Mufassa was awesome. I don't watch House Sam, so I can't rate the awesomeness of his voice. But I would seriously pay to have James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman read a story in my head, it would be like listening to a movie.  |
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07-22-2008, 04:35 AM
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You mean the one telling to kill the Pope and sexually defile the subsequent wounds in his body then fly the corpse to Israel and sprinkle his blood over the desert in order to give birth to a million screaming vaginas that will speak of the changes necessary in order for us to become one with the galactic fraternity of light?
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That's it!!! That's the one!!! Talk about fucking wierd!
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07-22-2008, 05:14 AM
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I vote Christopher Walken as the coolest.
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07-22-2008, 05:27 AM
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Mine sounds like the Queen... so when a novel gets a little steamy, things get awkward. It's also why I think most books are boring.
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07-22-2008, 05:40 AM
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Well, I can't say I hear any one voice. I more than often get quite lost in my book to the point of being unreceptive to the outside world. I have had things thrown at me to get my attention.
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07-22-2008, 09:21 AM
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I hear a calmer version of my voice, but I try to imagine a character's voice from time to time. Do most people play a movie in their head for what they read?
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07-22-2008, 09:30 AM
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I don't hear any one particular voice, any one of the above-mentioned voices would be cool though. Each character has their own voice, which is why I like a lot of dialogue, then it is like a movie.
I just read a bunch of short stories by D H Lawrence and every one of the characters had distinctly different voices and accents.
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