Dude, you can't seriously reject reading a book or watching a movie based on a character's NAME. If that were the case, no one would ever read Charles Dickens.
Putting aside for the moment that I rejected reading the book or watching the movie long before I read about this name: Names like David Copperfield, Pip, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge are fantastic.
They have color, they have rhythm. Try saying them aloud, you'll enjoy saying them. Then try saying "Sir Leigh Teabing." Like eating black licorice when your mouth is set for red...the man just shouldn't be able to do that with a name...
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Okay, Ben...what about names like "Seth Pecksniff," or "Chevy Slyme," characters in Martin Chuzzlewit?" Neither of them flow over the tongue like hot fudge (mmm, fudge). Sure, the second one is very evocative of the character's, um, character, but so is "Sir Leigh Teabing." 'Leigh' conjures up images of an effeminate person, and 'Teabing' just smacks to me of old money, both features of the character.
Of course, this is all just my opinion...
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