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Brains is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series ''Thunderbirds'', who also appears in the sequel films ''Thunderbirds Are Go'' (1966) and ''Thunderbird 6'' (1968) and the 2004 live-action adaptation ''Thunderbirds''. The puppet character was voiced by David Graham in the TV series and the first two films, while Anthony Edwards played the role for the live-action film. Brains is voiced by Kayvan Novak in the part-computer-animated, part-live-action remake series ''Thunderbirds Are Go!'', which aired in 2015.〔 ==Conception and development== According to series co-creator Sylvia Anderson, Brains was conceived as "yet another version of our regular boffin-type characters who had appeared in all our previous series".〔 She compares the character to Professor Matthew Matic (of ''Fireball XL5'') and George Lee Sheridan, nicknamed "Phones" (of ''Stingray'').〔 Brains has also been viewed as an updated version Dr Beaker (of ''Supercar''), an eccentric scientist who similarly stutters.〔 The likeness of the Supermarionation puppet was influenced by the appearance of American actor Anthony Perkins.〔La Rivière 2009, p. 115.〕 Voice actor David Graham did not base Brains' tones on any person in real life. He explains that Brains' stutter – which he devised himself, without direction from the Andersons or scripts〔 – was a natural evolution of his characterisation: "It seems that with clever people the mind works faster than the mouth can speak."〔Bentley 2005, p. 26.〕〔 It is likened by Simon Archer and Marcus Hearn, writers of ''What Made ''Thunderbirds'' Go! The Authorised Biography of Gerry Anderson'', to logical positivism, whereby "the mind recognises only unquestionable facts and often appears to work faster than the voice."〔Archer and Hearn 2002, p. 116.〕 Graham also interpreted the character as being "innocent and unsophisticated", and possessing qualities of "absent-mindedness" and "vagueness".〔Archer and Hearn 2002, p. 117.〕 Anderson expresses similar views, describing the role as that of "a young man pre-occupied and confident with his work and experiments, yet socially unsure of himself". A negative effect of the character's delivery was the impact on the pacing of episodes: Anderson remembers that the stutter slowed the action, which potential distributors wanted to "move along fast", despite "bearing in mind that puppet action was slow enough without any speech impediments".〔 She concludes that while all concerned were impressed by Graham's "original interpretation", the stammer proved to be "one of those experiments that worked better in the recording studio than on the screen".〔 The scriptwriters solved the problem by abbreviating or cutting Brains' lines and limiting the character's appearances,〔 to the extent that by the end of Series Two, his speech impediment had been eliminated completely.〔 With Parker, Brains was Graham's joint favourite voice role for series.〔Marriott 1993, p. 124.〕 In the mid-1980s, Gerry Anderson proposed to develop a ''Thunderbirds'' re-make, ''T-Force''.〔Bentley 2005, p. 120.〕 As part of the updating of characters, vehicles and settings, Brains' myopia and stutter were to have been removed, and the character re-imagined as an eloquent computer scientist.〔 In the late 1990s, before Jonathan Frakes replaced Peter Hewitt as director of the then-undeveloped live-action film adaptation, co-producer Tim Bevan approached comedian Rowan Atkinson with a view to offering him the role of Brains. Anthony Edwards, who portrayed Brains in the completed 2004 film, enjoyed the role primarily on account of the character's stutter.〔''Starburst Special'' 2004, p. 27.〕 In an interview for ''Starburst'' magazine, Edwards stated that his children "made me be absolutely true to the original Brains – it was very important to them."〔 Marit Annen, the film's costume designer, pictured the character as "the kind of archetypal forgetful scientist; the only thing that's hi-tech about him is his shoes".〔''Starburst Special'' 2004, p. 39.〕 The glasses that the live-action Brains wears, while intended to be reminiscent of the original "pebble lenses", were made as smaller and "slightly more modern" half-frame spectacles.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brains (Thunderbirds)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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