Accents in history movies...... (1 Viewer)

Scott said:
Yep..... we DO tawk like that! Wikkid Pissah!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knkDubQ8kEs&feature=related
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The Boston accent is the most butchered accent in Hollywood.

They can't get it right or the Oscars right, but we've already covered that.........

We don't say Beantown or any other such nonsense.

"Tawk" is more Rhode Island/Long Island/Staten Island than Boston.

The letter "r" is not used by us.

As in evah.
 
Excuse me ...."Tahk." Usually New Englanders are made to sound like the Pepperage Farm man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OvOEFFLpYU

The local fishermen are old Yankee, Italian or Portuguese. The Perfect Storm was pretty close when the previews were played with locally made cable station commercials. My wife and her buddies used to ogle George Cluney as the movie was filmed almost under their windows.

The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming got it close and that was filmed in California.
 
Funny....SPR was on AMC the other night as I was "surfin". I watched just the beach scene again (20th or 21st time) but the movie gets to be a snuff film like Passion of the Christ.
 
Scott said:
Funny....SPR was on AMC the other night as I was "surfin". I watched just the beach scene again (20th or 21st time) but the movie gets to be a snuff film like Passion of the Christ.
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Interesting point.The scourging / Crucifixion scene in Passion is worse I'd say,because it is the prolonged torture of one man as opposed to sudden Horror of combat.I can see why Mel Gibson wanted to get over the Horror of what Jesus went through and he does it very well,however for me I cannot bare to watch it again as its truly upsetting.Maybe because I've watched war films since the age of about seven even the Horror of Omaha is what I'm used to seeing,but it is truly ground breaking and a great standard for future movies.

Does anyone here actually own the DVD of Passion?.

Rob
 
No POTC DVD in my house.

Might be because I'm not a Christian (I read Dawkins, Dennet, and Hitchens) while my wife is RC. She defends the film but she won't require my daughter to see it. It shocked me when some Evangelical friends took their kids to see it.

Luckily my wife is a history student so we go to all the big movies together. Gettysburg and the two Iwo Jima films for example.
We have both seen SPR and asked my son to watch. (It bothered him.) We have WW II veterans on both sides of the family that experienced the action in SPR.

After the beach scene SPR does become much like other war films but at least it doesn't glorify war and still has a satisfying ending for fiction. Since I already know the ending it become a parade of various ways to die horribly. I can't watch modern horror films for that reason as it seems no matter how brave, smart, or virtuous the characters are, the monster kills them off one by one and comes back.

I've seen that "who's going to shoot the prisoner" scene before in other films.
It never goes well for the characters either way.

Good accents on the SPR cast though.
 
The best accent is the mismatched Scottish accent Sean Connery has as the Spaniard Diego in "Highlander" and the Lithuanian Capt. Ramius in "The Hunt for Red October." Cracks me up every time :D

Prost!
Brad
 
theBaron said:
The best accent is the mismatched Scottish accent Sean Connery has as the Spaniard Diego in "Highlander" and the Lithuanian Capt. Ramius in "The Hunt for Red October." Cracks me up every time :D

Prost!
Brad
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Bothers me in the least. What I do notice is Connery's commanding presence in both roles. That is why I pay to see him.;):D
 
theBaron said:
The best accent is the mismatched Scottish accent Sean Connery has as the Spaniard Diego in "Highlander" and the Lithuanian Capt. Ramius in "The Hunt for Red October." Cracks me up every time :D

Prost!
Brad
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Yes its quite bad,but then I've never thought of Connery as a great actor myself,competant but not great.Many actors struggle with accents of course and maybe sometimes its better to not attempt them and just speak in the normal voice.Did Tom Cruise try a German accent in Valkyrie,I saw it but can't remember if he did or not??.

Rob
 
I read that the makers of Valkerie had a discussion over if they should have the actors attempt German accents or not; and they ultimately decieded to have each actor speak in thier normal voice. They felt it would be a distraction and that since they were actors portraying Germans in Germany speaking their native tounge, it wouldn't seem like a foreign accent to the citizens of Berlin. I suppose it should be viewed from the perspective of the audience. If the character is supposed to be in a Jane Austin film and you hire an American actress, you better make sure she sounds like an Englishwoman or the audience will not like it. Mimicry is a seperate talent from acting and it's hard to do. I think Gwenneth Paltrow in Emma, and Rene Zellweger in Bridgit Jone's Diarys pulled it off; they sounded good to me anyway, and Emily Blunt did a good American accent in Charlie Wilson's War. But, they were not supposed to be foreigners in those films. That would be the only reason to do an accent, to emphazize the "otherness".
 
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