James Arnold Taylor on "the Laugh"

[lithiumkatana17]

Next Skype/Google Hangout, let's all do the laugh.

 

[Flare]

Next Skype/Google Hangout, let's all do the laugh.

I'm down. Skype call though, preferably.

 

[Joe]

Next Skype/Google Hangout, let's all do the laugh.

I'm busy that day.

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Next Skype/Google Hangout, let's all do the laugh.

I'm busy that day.

I guess you'll be missing out then.

 

[Joe]

 

[Channy]

.....I still want to collect everyone's laughs for a video compilation.

 

[Octo]

This is how it should have been done

 

[RedFFWolf]

I've shared this video before, but given the context I think it should be recognised again.

 

[Jason Tandro]

@Tennyo: STOP YOUR LIES, WOMAN, IT WAS A CIRCLE OF MEDIOCRITY SURROUNDED by a CIRCLE OF SALTY ECSTASY.

@Channy:

 

[Tennyo]

@Tennyo: STOP YOUR LIES, WOMAN, IT WAS A CIRCLE OF MEDIOCRITY SURROUNDED by a CIRCLE OF SALTY ECSTASY.

Lies and slander. The "special cheese sauce" that they played up in their advertising campaign was nothing more than the fake shit that comes out of a dispenser when you buy nachos at movie theaters. Almost made me barf.

But I do say the pretzel crust was the only edible part of the entire pizza, so we at least agree on that.

 

[Jason Tandro]

@Tennyo: STOP YOUR LIES, WOMAN, IT WAS A CIRCLE OF MEDIOCRITY SURROUNDED by a CIRCLE OF SALTY ECSTASY.

Lies and slander. The "special cheese sauce" that they played up in their advertising campaign was nothing more than the fake shit that comes out of a dispenser when you buy nachos at movie theaters. Almost made me barf.

But I do say the pretzel crust was the only edible part of the entire pizza, so we at least agree on that.

Yeah the "white sauce" wasn't so good but I liked the salt in the sauce and the crust is heaven. I would literally eat it crust first like stuffed crust pizza.

 

[Channy]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

 

[Clement Rage]

Way too late, but:

That's a fine play-by-play of the scene, but it could have played out exactly the same without the annoying laugh. Literally it could have been toned down, a fake laugh without being so long, over the top, so annoying. Everything else in that scene is spot-on, perfect. The laugh is not, and that only falls on the writer, not the actors.

Not really. The fake laugh has to be so over the top and stupid that they really do start laughing at how ridiculous it is. If you tone it back, then the laugh moves from funny to sad, because we're back to 'we're trying to laugh and can't because the world sucks', which is a bad situation, unless you're distracted by how ridiculous that laugh actually sounded.

You could have a different but equally over the top fake laugh (which people would probably also find annoying), but you can't tone it back much, because if it sounds less stupid, you don't have it followed by the real laugh, and the scene doesn't distract them from their depression.

 

[Channy]

The plan is in motion...

 

[ForceStealer]

Guys! Guys...Guys. This was even better than the last one. He goes over some of his old original scripts for FFX. He finds some other stuff in the box too, but seeing him go through the script and read along as Tidus furthers what I was saying before. That is, his normal voice does sound reasonably like Tidus, but you can tell more of it goes into it than that. I'm amazed at how close he he sounds to the original lines while reading them, he recorded that shit 15 years ago.
And he just seems like the nicest freakin dude. Check this out:

 

[RedFFWolf]

^It's great listening to him reminisce - clearly loves his work and his past endeavours. You can almost hear him hold back his excitement for the sake of presentation. What's great as well is hearing the story behind Tidus's pronunciation and treating the name as one would a 'tomato' or 'vase'. There's a greater authority involved if James A. T. says I can continue pronouncing his name as "tie-dus"

 

[ForceStealer]

But, it is still unequivocally "Teedus"

 

[Tennyo]

Yeah but it's totally still supposed to be "tee-dus." - ninja'd

No but to be honest I love James Arnold Taylor. He's such a talented voice actor and he has such a wide range.

Has anyone here ever seen this video?

 

[Tennyo]

Here's another video. It's long, but it's so good. He's really got his voice hands in everything.

He does that same skit near the end, but watch the whole video.

He also ends it all with a whole big "Believe in you dreams," speech. <3 Back when he was more active on Facebook who used to post stuff like that all the time. It always made my day a little happier to see that pop up on my feed.

 

[JechtShotMK9]

For a long, long time, I have wanted to do a scene by scene essay analysis of FFX. Not only do I think it has the best story of any Final Fantasy, but ever since I played it, it has been my all time favorite game. I just happened across this thread by accident, and saw Channy's post, and God, that was beautiful.

Not to get to emotional here, but I owe a lot of good real-life stuff to this game, and seeing people who actually appreciate the nuances of scenes like that makes me very happy. Thank you, all.