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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 28.1999
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Left: Paul Meier,
associate professor of
theater and film, reads
from the play "Gut
Girls" in various English
dialects. Meier
teaches a class on acting
with dialects for students interested in theater.
Below:
Associate professor
Paul Meier shows his dialect class how to
write the word "cake"
in standard English and
in a cockney dialect.
Meier has coached several actors on speaking
in dialects.
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Professor teaches celebrities dialect
By Ezra Sykes
Kansan staff writer
Stars taught to speak in Midwestern style
In Paul Meier's class, students are asked to spell words that don't exist.
Meier is teaching his class phonetics by having them transcribe nonsense words using the International Phonetic Alphabet — a code used to represent sounds.
And no, it's not a dirty trick.
Afterwards, Meier goes through the dialogue of the play "Gut Girls" by Sarah Daniels, stressing the importance of listening for sounds rather than words.
Now his work is hitting the big scree
For six months, he worked on the movie Ride With The Devil by Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm), working daily with actors such as Jewel, Skeet Ulrich and Tobey Macguire.
Meier, associate professor of theater and film, has spent the last 30 years of his life working with or teaching phonetics and dialects for many stage, television, and radio productions.
Meier's responsibility was to take 70 actors and give them Missouri accents.
"My hope is that when the audience hears the actors speak, it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb," he said.
Meier also played a Missouri aristocrat in the Civil War movie.
During winter break, Meier worked in Honolulu and Brussels, Belgium, doing post-production work for the film Father Damien teaching Flemish and German accents.
Meier participated in a post-production process called post-synchronization. If accents and dialects are not portrayed as well as they ought to be during the shooting of a movie, then actors must redo their dialogue in sync with the film.
Meier also revicoed some of the characters himself.
For Father Damien, Meier worked with such actors as Kris Kristofferson, Peter O"Toole and Sam Neill.
But movie stars aren't the only ones who appreciate Meier.
Sarah Graalman, Stillwater, Okla., junior, said that students were fortunate to have a resource like Meier because of his knowledge of phonetics, dialects and Shakespeare.
"Through the things that we learn from Paul, we can be more comfortable acting and take
more risks," Graalman said. "We are more well-rounded as actors."
Meier's interest in his field began at an early age.
He grew up in London, a place where a variety of accents and dialects presented themselves every day.
"I was one of those obnoxious kids who imitated everybody," he said.
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