Snafu; a wasted character
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johntex9 — 11 years ago(July 19, 2014 07:59 PM)
Exactly! It was the incongruity of the situation that rattled Sledge. To go from the hell of combat to having a pretty nurse serve lemonade was surreal. Remember that Sledge said "What the hell are they doing here? ". Then to have a REMF Lt. get wise with you was the last straw.
I thought that the guy who played Sledge was outstanding and deserved an Jemmy. -
lvrepoman — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 05:50 PM)
No, he wasn't very likable, but he did develop and he added so much to the series, including an understanding of how men lost their humanity. The actor who played himRemy Mallick (sp?) was thoroughly deserving of an award. a great portrayal.
"He was running around like a rooster in a barnyard full of ducks."Pat Novak -
Hippo9 — 12 years ago(March 31, 2014 01:55 PM)
The character was miscast.
Rami Malek sounded like he was autistic or had Downes syndrome with his bad over the top southern accent.
They should have cast a real southerner instead of some guy from Los Angeles. He was just wrong for the role and it distracted from the film. -
Reminisce_PartOne — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 02:35 PM)
sounded like he was autistic or had Downes syndrome
Reported. And you sound like just another ignorant, nave, closed minded, uneducated, oblivious person in your knowledge or more appropriately lack thereof of autism. I am autistic. Paddy Considine is autistic. Daryl Hannah is autistic. Gary Numan is autistic. Clay Marzo is autistic. Jessica-Jane Applegate is autistic. Yeah it is true that a symptom of autism is delayed speech but 'ey lets have a look at what the emphasised word there is shall we? Yeah we shall (rhetorical question). The emphasised word is drum roll
delayed
. It's not about the drawl or the accent or any o' that $hit it's about the delayed speech. His speech was not delayed. It did not take him longer to say things. He did not stutter. He did not sound like he was autistic and I think you will find yourself very easily inflicting offense by using conditions such as autism or downs syndrome in such general terms as not more than a tool or a prop for you to use for the purpose of comparison or in the context of a simile. Once again I reiterate - you are reported. And I shall report you again if you respond to me without recanting what you said about autism and downs syndrome. Recant or get reported again. -
tomislav-stanceric — 11 years ago(May 06, 2014 03:57 AM)
At first Snafu was also very annoying to me, always being an beep and never leting anyone get too close too him. I guess a lot of people have this issue, until you get to know someone better.
But later on I could see that he is not a bad guy, as he was getting a bit better in his relationship towards Sledge. Also I think he felt sorry for the whole incident with the wet granades, because he started it all in the first place.
When I firt watched Pacific, it was recently after watching his performance in comedy series "War at home" where his charather is gay. This was very awkward for me, because I couldn't switch him from gay teenager, to tough, beep marine. -
Reminisce_PartOne — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 02:26 PM)
By the end of the second last episode, the actor who played him had got so into the drawl I could no longer decipher what he was saying.
Are you not aware that the real Snafu had this problem? Apparently it was quite hard for people to tell what he was saying. Hey that's life man, some people it is hard to tell what they're saying. Suck it up.
Then I go on to read that you say you don't believe people talked like that back then? ..okay, so out of the millions of Americans back then, you don't think that even one person might have talked like that? Were you there? And again I reiterate - apparently he spoke kinda' like that. From what I've read I actually get the idea that Rami perhaps didn't speak enough like Snafu in the other way, meaning that I get the idea that Snafu was even harder to understand in real life, and Rami sounded like Rami like how he usually sounds, not quite like a considerably indecipherable Louisianan I didn't think. -
jd-276 — 11 years ago(June 10, 2014 03:53 PM)
Are you not aware that the real Snafu had this problem? Apparently it was quite hard for people to tell what he was saying. Hey that's life man, some people it is hard to tell what they're saying. Suck it up.
Now that I have read the book, I know that he could be hard to understand. I had not read the book when I wrote the original post. But since I am not from them United States, I am not aware of every regional accent and I don't need moral advice - like "suck it up" - from you. -
kbarada — 10 years ago(December 19, 2015 10:39 AM)
Everyone needs to read this link below if you want to really know about Merriell A Shelton:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67861972
I've read through all of these posts and here is what everyone is missing. I was born and raised on the upper Gulf Coast (Alabama to Louisiana) and I knew immediately that Snafu was of Cajun origin in both his talk and looks, especially after seeing a picture of the real Merriell A Shelton. He does not have a Southern drawl. He is of Cajun descent and that is a totally different accent from a traditional New Orleans drawl.
I can see why Sledge and SNAFU became friends in one respect and that is Mobile Alabama has a fairly strong Cajun influence, especially back in the 1930s and 1940s. If you are from Mobile, then you know about New Orleans and it's people and customs and vice versa. I know this because I lived in Mobile for many years. I had Cajun kids in my classrooms. If anything, Sledge didn't anywhere near speak with the old Mobile southern drawlnot even close!
To my ear, SNAFU tried to get into the Cajun manner of speaking and came close from time to time. My point is that he was not trying to be OTT with a southern drawl. Cajuns just naturally chop their words. He did come much closer than Sledge did in portraying the correct manner of speaking.
Some of this may be hard to understand if you are not from the upper Gulf Coast.