Do you think Prometheus dialogue will have any added camp value?

Arkadine

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The latest clip from Prometheus has the following line of dialogue" Vickers asks repeatedly "What did he said" to an overwhelmed David (background of ominous music), who says "It's Confidential", but after shes grabs him from the throat he replies "He said Try Harder", as she releases him he asks ironically "Cup of tea, Ma'am?", and she pushes him away from the face threateningly . I know Ridley Scott asked David to see Joseph Losey's "The Servant" in preparation for his role of his android "butler". But the dialogue sounded pretty overblown and campy to me. More like a dramatic confrontation right out of a Dynasty or a Dallas episode. I know the clip is out of context and I know I am risking excommunication from the Overlords of this board, but I would like to know what the rest of you think about this snippet of dialogue and clip.

craigamore
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May 27, 2012

True artyoh......and no worries Spart.......I humbly disagree as well....we can still be humbly disagreeing buddies.....

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May 27, 2012

maybe it wasn't his fault and was just the writing man

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May 27, 2012

Yeah, I'm not getting all the hate on child-actors, either. Over the last couple of decades, we've seen a number of kids who can act [i]amazingly[/i] well, including Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment.

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May 27, 2012

I haven't seen the full scene, where David talks about tea. Is there a link?? As far as camp value goes, someone posted a week or so ago about how cheesy Holloway's "That is the sweetest air I ever tasted" line was. *(Craigamore just posted about it here in this thread too.)

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May 27, 2012

I like em both, but all the same the parts they are paying they are both over acting in !!! and again they are written that way I think.

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May 27, 2012

Yeah...I'm lost on that too artyoh.....I'd be pretty f@$%@& up and emotinal at that age too if I was seeing dead people...and not Casper the friendly ghost, but people hanging from nooses oN MY SCHOOL'S BLOODY CEILING and let's not forget the burn victim teacher missing half her face or the crazy lady cutting her self IN HIS BLOODY KITCHEN...........I think we'd all be a touch dramatic and...emotional.....

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May 27, 2012

Theron is an amazing actress. She is absolutely comfortable at comedy (great example of this is all her new vids on funny or die) and she can be extremely terrifying, like in this or monster.

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May 27, 2012

It's ok Spart.....n o harm no foul...we see it different...that's all.....

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May 27, 2012

....i actually thought the kid in 6th sense was ok....i think my hatred for child actors started after watching "the goonies" when i myself was just a kid.....now that was just terrible!....i was a huge Steven Spielburg fan...but I could not believe how annoyingly crap that movie was!

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May 27, 2012

artyoh and Craigmore: Nothing against people who see dead people [my grandmother is a seer her self], but that kid IS ANNOYING. his face expression IS ANNOYING. IMHO of course.

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May 27, 2012

Spartacus: true. I guessed the ending the same way.

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May 27, 2012

Juxtapose......you're trashing [i]The Goonies[/i]?......for shame my friend....FOR SHAME, indeed...tee hee

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May 27, 2012

i respect your opinion man, you don't see to many other kids that can act that well it's true...I

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May 27, 2012

but there always seemed to be something sinister about McCauley Culkin, you know what I mean?, same thing with these two, they are "TOO AWARE" for their age.

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May 27, 2012

Agreed...I respect yours as well....Shyamalan's not for everyone.....

Arkadine
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May 27, 2012

@ Svanya http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr572l_www-prometheusforum-net_shortfilms

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May 27, 2012

funny thing I love sham along a ding dong !!! I Thought SIGNS and The Village Were Both awesome and ahead of their time!!!

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May 27, 2012

THE VILLAGE is a very good movie to watch at a Theatre. The Ending was superb and I somewhat relate to that need for refuge.

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May 27, 2012

I'm getting flashes of something sinister about those who are "TOO AWARE" for their age..... [img]http://monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/Village-of-the-Damned-3.jpg[/img] AND [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mvpXAhtSBbI/Tgy8sDs_R0I/AAAAAAAAAiI/MRpjoDJgUYk/s1600/village+of+the+damned.jpg[/img] AND [img]http://www.hwdyk.com/q/images/wildbartscantbebroken_09.jpg[/img] AND [img]http://www.hwdyk.com/q/images/wildbartscantbebroken_10.jpg[/img]

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May 27, 2012

Talking about camp, The Last Airbender must be one of the campiest movies ever