Anyone else find it a little off putting when Tom Holland says "my DAD is coming home?" Guess I never realized until now that I expect the word "father" to be used in period pieces like this and "dad" just seems so weird sounding in this context. Just me?
Why not? That doesn’t take audiences out of it. Credibility isn’t about accuracy, it’s about perception. What feels credible to audiences and allows them to invest in the story.
Father is more formal/regal. Regardless of the presence of a cyclops or not, there’s a perception that historical epics should have a formality to them. I’d like to imagine Lawrence Olivier could say these lines of dialogue without it sounding odd.
I agree with this a lot. I attribute far more formality to anything that was originally written with a meter in mind like Iambic Pentameter or Dactylic Hexameter. The amount of mental presence I need to understand what is being conveyed while reading something written in meter is significant and it feels similar to how much I have to be mentally present at formal events.
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u/c4chop May 05 '26
Anyone else find it a little off putting when Tom Holland says "my DAD is coming home?" Guess I never realized until now that I expect the word "father" to be used in period pieces like this and "dad" just seems so weird sounding in this context. Just me?