Okay, I'm an American, so I need a Brit POV, was it just me who thought Annette's accent sounded phony? Maybe its my imagination or I'm not used to hearing her with a Brit accent, which is why I'm asking you guys if it sounded off to you.
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I'm also an American, so I can't say with much authority, but I have the impression that she was meant to have a phony accent. The point was that her whole life was play acting, so that it was hammie acting.
shareHaha! I would also LOVE a Brit POV on this because, as an American, I thought she sounded perfect!
Her accent sounded purposefully forced. It is only just noticeable, but is just how English people sound when they are putting on an accent which is not their own. I've not read the book, but my impression is that the character was from the north of England and was affecting an upper class English accent, which is - or was - quite common in the theatre. If that was Annette Benning's aim then she was pitch perfect.
And, yes, I am English.
I'm just about a moonlight mile
On down the road.
You're English but you think Terence Stamp does a decent accent in The Limey.
You are not to be trusted.
He does his own accent in The Limey. He is a cockney and you claimed that he could not do a cockney accent. I wonder which one of us is right and which of us is not to be trusted.
I'm just about a moonlight mile
On down the road.
Thank You Midnite Rambler....and good question/discussion. As far as accents go, I "gave up on" them after Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"....which was the first movie I ever saw :)
Hey, how as I supposed to know his accent wasn't any good????
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As far as accents go, I "gave up on" them after Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"....which was the first movie I ever saw :)
Yeah, that was sad wasn't it? Van Dyke's accent came and went throughout the movie and when it was there, it was dreadful. I don't think being surrounded by a completely British cast helped his case either.
You know what's wild? I was watching the special features, and the actor playing the American T-O-M was British! LOL, when I think the way he said things like, "I think you're swell", I can't get over how completely fooled I was by his authenticity (fake guy as he was, granted). Great job.
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The Brits have class as well as local accents. The variety is not so extreme as it was in Shaw's time, and it has got much more uniform in the South. Speaking of, Hollywood has the habit of casting Brits as Southerners and of course they were totally off.
shareIt sounded wrong to me, in that it was a bit too "forced upper class". But possibly that is what "Julia's" accent was meant to be like.... but I thought she looked wrong more than sounded wrong... She just looked American...
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