When Martin Amis’s Voice Changed…
This from John Latta at Isola di Rifuiti:
"…launch’d myself into Richard Hughes’s A High Wind in Jamaica, who’d a thunk the life of the Bas-Thornton children in Jamaica—the “general round energeticalness” of it, to use a Hughes tag—’d enthrall so compleatly. Odd dub: the thirteen-year-old Martin Amis act’d in Alexander Mackendrick’s 1965 movie of the book, though with dubbing by an actress: Amis’s voice having changed during filming."
Photo: The Martin Amis Website.
Thankfully his writer’s deep, sonorous voice remains rich, unchanged over the years.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 AM
His truthlessness remained unchanged over the years also.