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Published: 2nd August 2007

Bring back the talkies

I MUST thank your excellent film critic William Hall for reminding us how so many films are practically incoherent these days (Heavy metal robots up for a scrap, July 26).
It seems part and parcel of every Hollywood movie for actors to blur their words so that we, the paying audience, have to strain our ears to decipher what they are saying.
It wasn't always like this. Witness the current season of “British Films Forever” on Saturday TV, with gems like Brief Encounter, The 39 Steps and The Red Shoes demonstrating the clarity with which dialogue could and should be spoken. What went wrong? Is it simply laziness or an attempt to reflect modern realism in the way people speak?
If so, it’s a sad reflection on all of us.
CEDRIC TOROSSIAN
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