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Review of John Stuart Mill and the Temple of Doom
Speculative Grammarian Podcast
English - September 27, 2013 13:28 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Comedy speculative grammarian specgram linguistics language humor satire satirical linguistics parody talk show linguistic news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Review of John Stuart Mill and the Temple of Doom; by Vervet Vandiver Vanlandingham-Vanderveer; From Volume CLXVII, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, June 2013 — This weekend I went to see the new high-spectacle action-adventure film, “John Stuart Mill and the Temple of Doom”. While the special effects were noteworthy, I was most impressed by the reflorescence, if not recrudescence, of Hollywood linguistics. Intended as a high-brow response to the recent Sherlock Holmes movies, this film begins with the hero recovering from his once-famed nervous breakdown by defeating Tennyson in a poetry slam during the Great Exhibition; while the rest of the audience thrilled to the CGI recreation of the Crystal Palace, I was enthralled by the fast-paced exchanges of Cockney and Geordie in iambic pentameter—truly a treat for our culturally denuded age! (Read by Mark Brierley.)