Wilt

[antgirl1]

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

He was just really being the quintessential loud, obnoxious sports fan.

pitbulllady

"Obnoxious" is putting it mildly. XDD

[cartman414]

Originally Posted by pitbulllady

I was thinking that same thing-that Wilt's voice has a bit more of a rougher "edge" to it now. I really like that, actually, since it's more in keeping with his not-so-pleasant past. Plus, when you think of all the emotions he's kept neatly bottled up inside, which boiled to the surface during the last season, that probably would account for the change in voice, too. You can REALLY hear that "edge" in "Bus the Two of Us", and in those end credits of Good Wilt Hunting(still arguably one of the funniest things I've ever seen on tv, period).

pitbulllady

Very true. I think that while he's the quintessential gentleman, he has his boiling points, which do get pushed due to the crazy events going around in Foster's. I felt bad for him in "When There's a Wilt...".

I have quite a lot of Wilt in me sometimes in how I'm perceived by others. And that probably isn't ok.

[antgirl1]

Yeah...Wilt sounds bad in BOTH Franch and Spanish. XDD

[pitbulllady]

No offense intended for those people who live in non-English-speaking countries, who are probably used to hearing the dubs of the voices, but I can't even fathom ANY voice other than those silky-smooth, slightly "Geechee"-accented tones of the Wilt I'M used to hearing.

On a somewhat Wilt-related theme, this past Wednesday and Friday, I actually got the speak with the great-grandson of the guy whom HE says started the whole "Charleston Pineapple" motif, a man named J.W. Carrigg, a son of freed slaves. His protege', Phillip Simmons, got credit for building the first "Pineapple Gate" in Charleston, even though Mr. Carrigg's name is actually on the gate itself. If any of you are wondering what the heck that has to do with Wilt, if you look closely at the backgrounds in Good Wilt Hunting, of the court where both games against Foul Larry took place, there are these stylized pineapples up over the doors of the buildings, which have become more or less symbolic for Charleston, South Carolina, though I never really knew why. I just know that those things are EVERYWHERE down there, along with the wrought-iron railings and window covers that are also seen in the movie, and the ubiquitous "earthquake bolts"*, one of which actually appears in one of Sparky's screencaps. Talking to this guy on the phone(about our fight against breed-specific legistlation in our state), I couldn't help but think of the movie; although HE is a native of Charleston and lives there now, his accent isn't as noticeable as Wilt's is! He kept telling me that if I couldn't understand his "Geechee-speak", as he called it, to remind him to stop and repeat himself or explain what he meant, so I had to laugh and tell him not to worry, that I watched a character on tv who was way more "Geechee" than he was, and I could understand HIM(meaning Wilt, of course)just fine! I forgot just how the pineapple thing came up in a conversation about dogs, mostly, but it was pretty neat knowing I was talking to a decendant of the person who started it all.

*Earthquake bolts are huge steel rods inserted through the outer wall of buildings built in Charleston after 1886, when a massive earthquake probably around a 8.0 on the Richter Scale devastated the city. These are supposed to give strength to the building, though they haven't been "tested" by a really strong quake since. On the outside of the buildings, they appear as metal discs of various shapes, many round or square, often engraved with the names of the building's architechts, or Bible verses, or memorials to those who died in the quake. According to some geologists, South Carolina ranks below only Alaska and California as the most seismically-active state and the most likely to experience a horrendous "Big One" quake within this century. We typically experience over 200 small-moderate quakes per year, many originating near Charleston's Middleton Fault.

pitbulllady

[antgirl1]

I'm not too happy with his French voice, either. I think it makes him sound.....wimpy, in lack of better term. XD

The English voice heals!

[wiltfangirl93]

I've never watched the show in different languages, but I do know that Wilt's english voice is the bestest of the best! Is that ok?

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by wiltfangirl93

I've never watched the show in different languages, but I do know that Wilt's english voice is the bestest of the best! Is that ok?

No arguement from me on THAT! I first started watching the show to find out more about this tall red being with the missing arm and messed-up eye, after seeing fan art of him on Deviant Art, but that voice was a big part of the reason I got totally hooked in the first place. It just perfectly suits him. It's obviously ethnic without being "street" or "ghetto" or other stereotypes; it's smooth and pitched just right, easily fitting someone of Wilt's height, age and gender.

Changing the subject a bit though, it kinda bothers me that so many people still perceive Wilt as clueless, blissfully going through life always-happy, oblivious to the fact that others might not share in his happiness. As we saw in the last season, culminating with GWH, that's not the case at all. Wilt has some really deep-seated issues, and he's clearly aware of how others see him and of others' feelings, including the negative ones. I do think that given all the awful things that have happened to him, that he's been able to overcome, little things like Jackie's tiff over being paired up with Wilt for the county fair are put in perspective as not being worth raising a fuss over. Most of us, now, if confronted with someone who obviously had a problem with us, would say something about it, like "what's YOUR problem, dude?", and that would only serve to make the situation worse. Wilt knows that it's not worth it. It's not that he doesn't realize when someone else dislikes him(he obviously knew that Larry didn't), or is unhappy with him, but he's just learned to brush it off as being relatively insignificant on the larger scale of things. It's comparable to the pilot episode when he first meets Mac and Bloo, and tells them, "I know I'm all broken, with the stubby arm and the wonky eye-probably freaks you out, huh?", and when you think about his situation, that's pretty sad. There's no telling how many people have reacted very negatively to him over the years, children especially, because of his injuries, and he's just come to that point where he can either stew over it and spend the rest of his life feeling useless, or he can build up that emotional wall to things like that, and almost treat them as a joke. GWH was evidence of that "wall", that he's constructed to keep out life's more painful experiences and memories, and no one who is that complex, who can keep such secrets buried for 30 years, can be a simpleton.

pitbulllady

[wiltfangirl93]

I almost cried while watching GWH actually. But it's so sweet how he would
put his creator before himself. If only there were guys out there in the world
who were just as nice, sweet and caring as him! It's sorta the reason I have a small crush on Wilt.

[Cassini90125]

I can name a few but unfortunately there would be very little point in doing so.

[ptps]

Dare I say that every girl in the world would KILL to get a boyfriend like Wilt? I mean honestly. XD