Question for the brits.
Does Johnny Depp's accent sound real or fake to you guys. I cannot tell at all. But I am from America
shareIt would all depend on what part of Britain his accent was trying to be. I didnt think it was terrible. it definately wasn't dick van dyke.
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I think he did a good job a london accent back then would have been hard to figure out as no one knows what it was like. Although I think in Mary Poppins Dick Van Dyke sound Australian lol just my opion....But yes he did a half decent accent :D xx
sharetop notch.
sharePeople don't know what the London accent sounded like in the late Victorian period?
Don't be silly. By 1888 London accents had already been recorded and carried on to be recorded until the last living person of 1888 had died (which was surprisingly interesting).
Depp does a pretty decent East London accent, although that accent of the working class has transformed into something else over the last 30 years.
I think he did a great job of a 19th century London accent
shareHis accent sounded much more authentic than Heather Graham's, which I felt had very noticable American twangs at times.
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What an accent from the 1880s would sound like is not too far beyond imagination. Practical audio-recording had been invented by 1880 and it was possible to record your own voice, using a phonograph and a wax cylinder. So there would have been recordings of voices from that period. Not GREAT recordings, but if you listened to enough, I reckon you could mould your voice/accent on those.
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quite a good accent I thought
shareThere's no reason whatsoever for him to have had a London accent. Abberline was from Dorset, and didn't leave until around the age of twenty.
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I'm going to defend Dick van Dyke. He's not trying to do an accurate London accent. Mary Poppins is a fantasy about a fantasy version of London. Van Dyke is playing the King of the Chimney Sweeps. His accent is farcical just like the whole film.
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I'm going to defend Dick van Dyke. He's not trying to do an accurate London accent. Mary Poppins is a fantasy about a fantasy version of London. Van Dyke is playing the King of the Chimney Sweeps. His accent is farcical just like the whole film.
That would be a fair and valid point...if only other accents I the film were "farcical", and they are not.
It's only his accent that stands out.
So while the film may have been "farcical" that does not automatically give Dick a free pass to his god awful interpretation of a London accent at all.
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