Re: "A fake form of old-fashioned Japanese speech supposed to represent the old style of the language is used."

Ben Bullock wrote:

"Bart Mathias" <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eaqdnXw25s2p3STZnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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# In long-running TV series, like Mito Kōmon and Zenigata Heiji, the lead and supporting actors sometimes change. This is done without any rationale for the change of appearance. [...]

The same thing is done in American soap operas.
I thought they said that the character has had cosmetic surgery or something?

It would take some pretty amazing cosmetic surgery to account for some of the changes in a program my wife listens to about the time I'm finishing lunch.

For some reason, I watched the whole of Dynasty (that's called die-nasty in the USA), and I remember that Stephen (Blake's son) was played by a different actor after he reappeared. The ending of Dynasty was that all the characters were machine-gunned to death in a church, maybe because they called it "die nasty" there had to be an ending like that.

Of course! Otherwise it would naturally have been called "dinner-stee." I missed all the episodes of that one, somehow.

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What bothers me the most is when they stand in a circle, and the villain behind the hero could very easily slash the hero's back or head, but just stands there waiting.

I heard that the Japanese take 自然 and 行儀 very seriously. This might be a case of the latter.

Bart
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