Normandy Voice Wavs

[John Kettler]

And we'll all wait, in eager anticipation, for the slurred speech mod addressing drinking too much Calvados from canteens supposed to carry water!

Regards,

John Kettler

[Michael Emrys]

I'm a blond kid from Iowa.

You're doomed. It says so in the script.

Michael

[Pvt. Ryan]

You're doomed. It says so in the script.

Michael

He might as well be a red shirt on Star Trek.

[Clavicula_Nox]

He might as well be a red shirt on Star Trek.

"Captain, I see someth-AAAHHHHHH!!!"

[Kanonier Reichmann]

I really hope they include some of those classic British phrases that were in the original CMBO, for the first module that introduces Commonwealth forces. Things like Stick that up your pipe Fritz! when an enemy tank was knocked out always brought a smile to my face and was a great contribution to the immersion.

Regards

KR

[Clavicula_Nox]

I'm going to be pissed if the Brits don't run around saying "Pip, pip, wot, wot!"

[panzermartin]

Can we have some from Company of Heroes please?: "I heard the nazis are all eight feet tall" or "I should had joined the navy" or "Looook..its raaaaaining"

[Splinty]

That's not realistic at all. Everyone knows the only people in the Army are Texans, Tennessee(ans), and other Southerners. Pfft. Harlem.

Funny. I just retired from the Army and I'm from Michigan.:-P

[Elmar Bijlsma]

You're doomed. It says so in the script.

Michael

Well... Clavicula_Nox might be okay for now, as long as he does not go around showing a picture of his girlfriend, or make known his plans for when gets out of the army.

[stoex]

I want a voice .wav for flamethrower guys, something about turning the Fritzens into Freedom Fries...I'll let you know when I've settled on an exact text.

[Dietrich]

So says grizzled Sergeant Wierzbowski to fresh-faced blond Private Nox: "Just keep your head down and your eyes peeled." =P

[Other Means]

What happened to Dutch? The big guy who’s a bit slow on the uptake but has a heart of gold who gets teamed up with the guy from da Bronx and reads out letters from his parents in a slow voice before passing round a picture of his family at which point Weasel, the Bronx guy, grabs it and says “hot damn take a look at little Miss Dutch! She your sister?” “Yah sure, she’s my leedle sistah.” “She don't look too little to me Dutch, am I right, am I right?” before putting his life on the line and firing a captured Nazi MG from the hip to get everyone out of the abandoned building.

[Michael Emrys]

Let's not forget the brave and dutiful captain who leads his men into battle even though he knows the colonel is a self-serving a**hole.

Michael

[bitchen frizzy]

And there has to be a gruff old career noncom clenching an unlit cigar in his teeth.

[Michael Emrys]

And there has to be a gruff old career noncom clenching an unlit cigar in his teeth.

And there's at least a 50-50 chance that he gets killed in the last reel. He buys it trying to save the blond kid from Iowa who he's been bitchin' at all through the movie.

Michael

[Bigduke6]

I think it's time to make an exhaustive list.

Each US WW2 Warner/MGM-approved Army squad must include one each:

- Midwestern farm boy, always blond, can be the sniper

- East coast inner city hustler, possibly a felon. Often from Bronx or Phillie

- Texan/generic cowboy.

- Italian, always from East Coast city, frequently speaks Sicilian

- New York Jew, Brooklyn or less frequently Manhatten. Best educated guy in squad, very useful to inform audience historical background or whose portrait that is on the mansion wall.

- Down deep Dixie boy, also a possible sniper

- As noted earlier, a large and somewhat slow Slav named "Ski"; big guy, often carries the MG

Each MGM-approved US infantry squad may in addition include

- A son of southern gentry, Virginia or Kentucky; provides counterpoint to the other Southerner, who becomes poorer and more white-trashy.

- An Indian. Most common tribes are Navajo and Cherokee; Ute, Apache, and Sioux possible. Always gets scout missions, obviously.

- A high school athlete/valedictorian. Usually an unofficial squad leader and a positive character, but sometimes will crack under pressure if script writer chooses to demonstrate the obvious man is not always the hero.

- A Hispanic, always a nice guy but often is in conflict with the poor Southerner.

- A tinkerer/mechanic; often worked in an auto shop back home, can get anything running, can manufacture heaters, faux silk stockings, and other hard-to-obtain items from a bit of string and chewing gum, and whatever debris is lying around. Acts as American Ingenuity incarnate, allows the squad to perform depot level maintenance on captured Panzers, Mercedes staff cars, etc.

- Rich man's son, spends movie learning about the lower classes

- An ethnic German determined to prove he is just as American as the rest of the guys, is useful for interrogating prisoners.

- Ivy league man who volunteered for the infantry, can survive to narrate movie in flashback. Can also fufill rich man's son role.

Others are possible, depending plot demands and which actors actually got cast.

Since CM Normandy will represent individual soldiers, I think BFI has no choice but to build in different voices for each squad member. I for one will feel very shortchanged if we get the same boring old .wav files dating back to CMAK.

US Army NCOs also offer a rich choice of cliche characters, but that's another post, if not another thread.

[wolf66]

Bear Jew ?

[MarkEzra]

You've got a successful Casting career waiting for you in Hollywood

[MikeyD]

Bigduke66, you missed one.

The really really nice guy. Boyish-looking, upbeat, Usually carries a picture if his sweetheart in his wallet, talks about his mom's hot apple pies and compares the battlefied scenery to the wholesome small town he grew up in. His unofficial nickname - "Dead Meat".

[panzermartin]

Waiting for Normandy is so boring..Can we in the meanwhile start a voice competition making a collection of self recorded "Die Krauts!!" or "Amerikana swheinen" wavs? Who's going first? I would but my micro needs replacement

[bodkin]

Bigduke6, missed another one the naive Lieutenant straight out of West Point that does things buy the book and 'is gonna get alot of men killed'. Although during the course of the movie he learns to break the rules from the veteran sergeant that saves his life and eventually becomes accepted by the platoon. Usually dosen't get killed.

[Migo441]

IF ETO, another possibility from the optional characters is a Nisei who serves as sort of a composite of the American Indian / Ethnic German characters.

Possesses mysterious field craft or weapons skills and faces prejudice from other soldiers. Most specifically from the guy whose brother was killed by "the Japs" in the PTO.

So he is then compelled to act extra-heroically to prove his patriotism, inevitably dies, and then everyone feels bad.

[Pvt. Ryan]

That's for sure. That's for dang sure.

[MikeyD]

We haven't entered the Rambo genre yet. The brooding muscleman who prefers to kill with his hands and appears in the midst of the enemy without being seen. Oh, and with the uncanny ability to run through mortar barrages. Here's some dialog from "First Blood Part II:

10. “Sir, do we get to win this time?”

9. “Oh and by the way, what most people call Hell, he calls home!”

8. “Gimme something cold!”

7. “These are the people you protect with your pain!”

6. “You may scream, these is no shame.”

5. “There is too much death here. Death everywhere. I just want to live, Rambo. Maybe I go America. Live the quiet life.”

4. “How you gonna live, John?” “Day by day.”

3. “Old ways not safe! You come long way to see empty camp”

2. As Rambo’s lady friend dies “Ram....bo......you....not....forget.....me”

1. “Murdock.....I”M COMING TO GET YOU!”

[Sequoia]

Are you talking about the Hollywood star who spent the war as a gym instuctor at a girls school in Switzerland who showed all the real Viet Nam vets the way they should have fought?