Ok, forgive my ignorance as I'm British and therefore not the worlds biggest expert on stateside regional accents, but is this a typical Nebraska accent? (I;m talking about all the characters) I know where Nebraska is in America but all their accents sounded kind of southern to me, almost Virginia like. Is this correct for Nebraska?
"What, you don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?"
No. I've lived in Nebraska my entire life and have lived in Lincoln for the past 13 years. No one talks like that. It's something that's always bothered me about this movie.
shareIf you watch the documentary The Brandon Teena Story, the real life counterparts -- Lana, Tom, John, Lana's mother, the officer who interrogated Brandon post-rape, and Brandon himself in the interrogation tape -- and Brandon's previous girlfriends all have a sort of drawl.
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If you watch the documentary The Brandon Teena Story, the real life counterparts -- Lana, Tom, John, Lana's mother, the officer who interrogated Brandon post-rape, and Brandon himself in the interrogation tape -- and Brandon's previous girlfriends all have a sort of drawl.
I am intrigued by language, therefore I too tend to notice things like that in films.
The American midwest (great plains states) can be a rather complex place, dialect-wise. I lived part of my childhood in Iowa, which is directly east of Nebraska. I recall most people either having no accent at all, or one which is similar to that found in states to the north, such as Minnesota and Wisconsin. I remember Nebraska sounding pretty much the same as Iowa. But then, traveling south into either Kansas or Missouri (both of which touch Nebraska), dialect became alot more diverse. Some people sounded neutral, some sounded southern, some sounded northern. I have met people from Kansas who sounded like they were from Virginia, and people from Oklahoma who sounded like they were from North Dakota. I have met people in Texas with no accent whatsoever, and then others whose drawl was so thick that I could barely understand what they were saying. So it wouldn't be unreasonable to find people in Nebraska having some kind of a southern drawl, for whatever reason.
If you are interested in dialects in America, or any English-speaking country, for that matter, this is an awesome website to look into:
http://www.dialectsarchive.com/united-states-of-america
It is an ongoing collection of recordings made of ordinary people from many English-speaking states and places, reading aloud a brief piece of writing so that the listener can get an idea of how someone from a particular area may sound. There is usually some basic biographical information about the speaker included in the info about each recording, such as the person's age and a list of everywhere they have ever lived and for how long, which may gain insight into the influences on their speech.
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