The last few months I have noticed a dialog quirk come up again and again, on almost every show I watch. The character is getting angry or frustrated with another character, and is carrying on a barely-contained rant. Then they say something like,
“That’s your fault , Rose”
The pause is just a little longer than how people really talk. The pause makes the utterance of the name emphasize how pissed off the speaker is.
Is this a new trend in TV direction? Is it a new trend IRL that I am just missing out on?
…if, indeed that is your real name!”
Scripts have always had characters overusing the name of another character they are alone with in a scene. Emphasizing the name just makes it sound even more ridiculous. I don’t get it either unless their trying to make sure the audience knows the name of the character.
If I was ranting IRL at something triggered by the other person in teh room I might well rant
whatever ranty whatever whatever ranty mcrantface! Bitch, moan, complain!!
And it’s all your fault … you [jerk / idjit / dumbass / a**hole]
Depending on how well I knew them, how sensitive they were, and the overall context determines which word fills in the blank.
Maybe nowadays movies (or at least the kind you watch) don’t want that realistic hostility, so they have the character say the offender’s name instead.
Maybe you’re onto to something there. The ranter is about to use an expletive but catches himself and (after a brief pause) substitutes the target’s name.
I didn’t notice it before but I had the word “beat” in there in angle brackets and it was deleted from the post. Maybe it filters anything that might be HTML injection.
But my point was not that they are simply using the person’s name, but there is a pause there that is just a little too long.
Use square brackets for interjections like that. Or lead each angle bracket with a back-slash to tell Discourse to treat it as a plain character, not as a formatting command.
It’s all your fault [beat] Jane!
It’s all your fault <beat> Jane!
The second example is typed like this looks:
It’s all your fault \<beat\> Jane!
Or, since we live in the emoji age:
That’s your fault, 
Rose.
Alternately:
That’s your fault, 
Rose.
Here’s last night’s example
From The Night Agent
“Damage control is not enough here…Dianne.”
