that was a great fight with Dan. I'm still on the fence with this show. One minute I'll think it's one of the best shows ever, and then the next minute, I'll go crazy trying to follow the unnatural and unrhythmic dialog. Man, nobody in the history of the world has ever talked like that. It sounds like a bunch of posers trying to imitate The Bard.
Not a bit true. It's highly accurate 19th century dialog, particularly among US frontier mining camps at all levels of social class represented by the characters.
We've been over this before in another thread. Read more 19th century literature. Heck, read the advertisement on the label of a medicine bottle from that period. Read Civil War letters home from the troops written by the authors who were alleged to be simple provincials -- at least as far as the modernists would have you believe.
Actually, though I quibble with the amount of profanity, the manner of speaking is fairly accurate. You have to read some books written during the time to see how close the writers actually come to this style of speaking.
I have a family history written by a relative who received her schooling in the early 1900s. We would call the style a little stilted today, and she was much less formal in person, but it reflects how she was taught one 'should' properly relay information.
Man, nobody in the history of the world has ever talked like that. It sounds like a bunch of posers trying to imitate The Bard.
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That's what's so unique about Deadwood...the Shakesparean-like dialogue. Ever catch one of Swearengen's falatio soliloquys? Absolutely riproritous. Some of the best writing on TV (and movies) delivered by a truly great actor (McShane)