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Ok. I fail at life, because I found Dan Radcliffe's interview with Jay Leno on youtube so I could watch it again, and realized that I only saw like three minutes of it the first time.

So I watched the whole thing this time, and the conclusion about Dan being the most adorable guy ever still stands.

Oh, and who did he ask for advice about being naked onstage? Gary Oldman. Who does Harry always ask for advice? Sirius. THEY WIN AT BEING THEIR CHRACTERS.

Also, there's a part where he says that Rupert Grint used some of the money he made from the HP movies to buy his own ice cream truck. I thought I loved Rupert before, but OMG HIS OWN ICE CREAM TRUCK!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH MORE!!!  *FANGIRL FLAIL*


I love them both.

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In honor of what I (and others, I'm sure) have dubbed the Summer of Harry Potter, I've changed my icons to include three HP icons, instead of my usual one.

I don't know why I'm telling you this, or if you care, but it's my journal, so there you go.


I now have a Deathly Hallows icon for all my book release posts, and an Order of the Phoenix icon for all my movie related posts. Oh, and another one that's barely HP, and more mocking of bad spelling/grammar, but still.




OMG SEEING OOTP ON SATURDAY!

The Ability To Speak On The Radio Does Not Make You Intelligent

My father was just talking to me about how the guys on the radio show he listens to on his way to work were discussing Star Wars this morning. More specifically, they were talking about how Princess Leia has a fluctuating British accent in the movies.

I would like to take this moment to say, with complete confidence, as a woman who has seen the Star Wars OT hundreds, if not thousands of times, Princess Leia Organa Skywalker Solo never had, does not have, and never will have a British accent.

Carrie Fisher is from Beverly Hills. Just because she talks like a princess would talk, which means that she annunciates and uses impeccable diction, and just because she speaks like an intelligent and refined person, does not make her speech British.

Furthermore, George Lucas has no regard for accent continuity in the OT, nor does he need to. We're talking about a galaxy he created in which the human stars come from many different planets. There is no reason for his Americans to put on fake British accents, nor for his Brits to dispose of theirs. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) has a British accent. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) does not. C-3P0 (Anthony Daniels) has a British accent. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) does not. End of discussion. (And we're not even going to go into the accents in the prequels here, because this discussion of Princess Leia need not involve them.)



Like my mom said, I am the expert. No, I don't know every single thing about Star Wars, but I do know a lot. I love the movies mainly for their dialogue, and I know most of it by heart. Therefore, I say once again, Princess Leia never had a British accent.



Thank you and Goodnight.




ETA: Heh. Look at my LJ username. I AM THE PRINCESS LEIA AUTHORITY!!! BOW BEFORE ME OR PERISH!