Their Finest Hour And A Half (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
There was a little too much reverberation created by the large number of hard surfaces, but the ceiling was surprisingly high, and by tilting his head back he could achieve quite a decent effect. Plosives, in particular, came out well. Bright copper kettle Pretty copper kettle Pretty copper kipper Popacatapetl Cup cot kin Pup pot pin Pitter patter petal Kipper copper kettle. Well, that was better; the words bounced back like billiard balls. Of late, he had noticed a hoarse edge to his voice – not the roughness of a throat infection, but a sort of dry creak, like that of an unoiled door. Neglect, of course, was as threatening to a delicate instrument as abuse, and there had been whole days recently (sometimes several days in a row) during which his vocal cords had rusted, unused. He couldn’t risk laryngitis on the very first day of location filming. He gargled and then began on a volume exercise, taking the syllable ‘ha’ from the barely audible to a ringing shout and then back again, and he was on his fourth repetition when a door crashed open somewhere along the corridor outside and a series of heavy footsteps approached the bathroom.
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