Who is Rowan Atkinson?

Who is Rowan Atkinson?

If I should ask the above stated question to a random bunch of people on the street, I'm pretty sure the majority of them won't have a bloody clue, especially outside the borders of the United Kingdom. Well, but why is that so? Isn't it sad that the talent of such a great comedian and actor is reduced to a role that shows him as a retarded, social outcast who lives together with a teddy bear and stumbles from one embarrassment to another. Maybe you might have by now concluded about whom I'm speaking, yeah it's the famous Mr.Bean – would YOU have known his real name by the way?

 

For those of you who now think about how the hell they should improve their listening skills or any skills at all by watching Mr. Bean, this post is NOT supposed to inform you about the series “Mr. Bean”, no, in fact it's the other way round.

I want you to become more conscious of the actor who represents the role, namely of Rowan Atkinson. As trough him you might very well learn English because he is able to speak a few more words than “Mister” and “Bean” and believe me, if you do like the British accent in general, you'll love this guy. 

Rowan has participated in many productions so far, although most of them are sadly only better known in England like the series “Blackadder” and “The Thin Blue Line”, two series filled with the black humor of the British. Blackadder for example is voted the second best series in the whole history of Great Britain. Why didn't they become popular outside of the UK then, you might wonder?

Well, unfortunately Blackadder's humor is based on such a huge amount of British wordplay and gags related to British history that it's almost impossible for a non-native speaker or much worse a non-English-speaking person to get the joke. Such series are a huge problem for translators in general; there you have a connection to our study. How do you translate British wordplay intelligibly in German or any other language?

So much for that. However, I won't go much more into detail about his career as an actor but put emphasis on his work as a comedian and show you some of my favorite comedy pieces of him. Let's start with his peculiar interpretation of the Last Supper – ATTENTION: Ultraconservative religious fanatics should maybe skip that part!!! 

                                    

Have you got a concept of how his comedy works, of what it consists, what exactly makes one laugh? His comedy uses mainly elements of both his incredible facial expressions (like in Mr. Bean) and foremost of pronunciation. Have you noticed how oddly he over-pronounces some words like “whence”, “professional” or  the sentences “How the hell did you do that?” and “go on, give us another one”. Let's watch two other pieces.

 

 

In your opinion, what was the fun part? Was it more the content of the speeches or the speeches themselves? Along the way, do you actually like his comedic style or rather not?
Now, last but not least an excellent example how he plays around with terms and words to build up his comedy. Take a look! 

I hope you enjoyed the pieces and if you even grew fond of Mr. Atkinson’s comedy, search for it on YouTube, there are lots of marvelous pieces. In the end I just want to point out that I don’t hate the series Mr. Bean, no, actually I love this series, I love every piece of Rowan Atkinson. I just don’t like that his overall geniality and talent are generally eclipsed by one single role. It's definitely worth taking a look beyond Mr.Bean. Cheerio!

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Blogs, Blogs everywhere!

Oh gosh, I always hated diaries!!!

Hey guys, well i´ve created this post first and foremest in order to look how it generally fits the design of my blog! On the other hand I want to introduce you a little bit to my blog and my thoughts about it!

Oh, indeed, Angie?

To start with, I have to say this is the first blog I've ever written or had so far as I am not really one of the kind that feels the permanent urge of telling his friends and his environment everything about his life and his day, like what I'm eating right now (neither do I take pictures of it and post them on Instagram) or what I'm currently feeling. Neither did I ever do something like that on Facebook (to be honest, I hate people that use Facebook as their personal diary - really, why the hell should I be interested in what degree the water of your daily shower had or how many flowers your boyfriend buys you on Valentines Day). Thus it's a completely new experience for me and I have to admit that I'm somehow suscpicious towards it. Nevertheless I know that this blog isn't intended to inform you about me or my kittens every day life but to tell you about recent happenings, interesting films, enthralling literature or whatever haunts around my head right now. 
The main task is surely to get those topics across in a suspenseful, informative, maybe fun way (my posts will mostly try to be somehow a little bit fun). It will be a  challenge indeed as writing a blog post surely can't be easily compared to writing a paragraph or an essay for university, as in this case you will try to convince your teacher of a certain style and a basic knowledge, by using a wide spread range of words and all that stuff. In a blog, however, and especially in this one, the target reader isn't only your teacher but rather other people like your classmates. Therefore you have to use another style, your blog posts shouldn't be exceptionally and brilliantly written like for a doctors degree but rather show that you know how to attract the readers attention, maybe give him some impuls for his own blog or whatever. 
A blog shouldn't be used as a mean to drain your haid, though, by writing complete random shit about things and topics that nobody is interested in, without the intention to change anything or attract anyone's attention but only with the intention to fulfill the teacher's requirements for a good grade. 
Ten thoughtfully and well written blog posts about a diverse and interesting topic definitely outweigh thirty posts, each one of them scrabbled without any second thought during the pause of two lectures. Guys, that's bullshit and everyone will read it as bullshit because that can't be informative or interesting in any respect. Better spending more time on it and thus gaining more profit out of it. With these words I want to end this very first blog post and wish you great joy and fun while starting your own blog.    

Self-praise is fragrant - or how was that?

Enclosed you´ll find the wisest of animals on earth, giving us a precious little tip to master our everyday life. Dear Mr.Newman, I know that you don´t like us to post loads of photographs of  sweet little kittens so I´ve suppressed my irresistible desire to do so, in the hope that you do like at least owls, cute little owls.