The silent penguin Feathers McGraw has become one of the most famous British animated villains thanks to Aardman’s distinct Claymation style. First introduced in The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993), McGraw now returns more than 20 years later in Wallace and…
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How voice makes a villain: Fiennes and the Moon King
by Reece Goodall • January 25, 2021 • 1 Comment
The film Kubo and the Two Strings (2017) marks Fiennes’ third animated appearance as a villain, and I think it is here that his animated star image is consolidated – Fiennes’ voice denotes concerns of class, and his characters belong…
Accent, inflection and Lord Victor Quartermaine
by Reece Goodall • January 18, 2021 • 0 Comments
In this post, I want to move on from the simple evocation of a celebrity’s past roles to focus on the ‘vocal’ aspect of celebrity vocal stardom. Fiennes’ next animated villain, Lord Victor Quartermaine, would appear in 2005’s Wallace and…
Contextualizing Rameses in the stardom of Ralph Fiennes
by Reece Goodall • January 11, 2021 • 0 Comments
It is certainly true that celebrity voice actors evoke their other roles through vocal performances and, by drawing on this wider intertext, a familiar voice helps to deepen our understanding of a character. My conception of celebrity vocal stardom necessarily…
Re-Evaluating Celebrity Vocal Stardom Through the Animated Villains of Ralph Fiennes
by Reece Goodall • January 4, 2021 • 0 Comments
Voice performances are technically eligible for nomination in the acting categories at the Academy Awards, but they have never been recognised. The founding of the SOVAS Voice Art Awards in 2013 was designed to rectify this because, as its chief…