What is with the British Accents that ruined the film

Well, I suppose they could ALL have tried to fake a Persian accent.

Or they could ALL have tried an American accent to accomodate Jake.

Or they could have just hired only Middle-Eastern actors.

Or they could have spoken the whole thing in Persian and we could have read the subtitles...what fun.

To me the English accent is the most acceptable when seeing films (that are made in the English language!) of ancient lands and cultures - don't ask me why. It has the least inflection to my ears.

And unlike a lot of you, I thought Jake did a brilliant job of the accent, much better than so many American and Australian attempts at it. He didn't make the mistake that many other American and Aus actors do of trying to sound too posh or cockney. He sounded like neither Prince Charles or Ray Winstone. It was very plain. And it worked.

It's an unwritten rule, whenever period pieces are being done in Hollywood especially for the middle ages, English accents just seems to be the prevalent choice especially for royaltySource:Prince of Persia sands of Time Reviewhttp://moviereviews.noskram.com/2011/06/prince-of-persia-sands-of-time -review

They should have put on a Persian accent. I mean they could have spoken English, but they should have spoken with a Persian accent.

Why do people think any movie needs native language? It's not a historic movie.

Even worse are those suggesting Persian English accents. That's kind of racist.


More importantly this is a popcorn flick using a fictional word lifted vaguely from 1001 nights which just happens to use existing location names while being completely fantastical in scenery, people and props. So who cares what English these people are speaking?

Overall clean British English is just the neutral English language form taught as secondary language in non English countries so it has the more international vibe.

how come everyone wants to stray from the opening thread comment, did he say they should have been speaking in american english? maybe i didnt read the fine print, need to have my eyes examined i guess. several people are ranting how it wouldnt work with american english. he said they could have learned or i think he meant practiced a more persian sounding accent for *beep* sake

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Yes it was noticeable that most of the accents were English - especially the Kings and Princes ...but then they are English actors. What I liked was, when he remembered, Jake Gyllenhall spoke with a more "mockney" or "estuary English" accent rather than the posher accent spoken by his father, uncle and brothers because after all his character was an orphan street boy so wouldn't have talked proper!

Don't forget, these films are also seen around the world so someone in Pakistan wouldn't necessarily "hear" if a character spoke in a fake Persian accent - to them it would be "English". It's also distracting if every actor spoke in their own accents. In the Man in The Iron Mask you had the 4 musketeers speaking in accents of English (Jeremy Irons), French (Gerard Depardieu), American (John Malkovich) and Irish (Gabriel Bryne) and then you have the French King and his twin speaking in American (Leonardo diCaprio. It made the whole film really annoying.

English is more clipped then American and just comes across as a better accent for films set in ancient times - or is it because we've become used to it? Did anyone ever answer the question of why Mancunian Daphne in Frasier had a brother who spoke with London cockney accent???

Its pretty standard to do a film with brit accents when the characters are of a foreign language. All the good Jesus movies have English accents and everyone of that culture has to have the accents just as if the film was done in Persian all the actors would have to speak Persian not all different languages.

I once saw a bad Jesus movie from 15 years ago. Jesus had an American accent, Mother Mary was Irish, Joseph was NY Jew accent, Pilot has an English/Brit accent and John the Baptist had a Scottish accent. It was very confusing and distracting to watch.

Brit accent is always the way to go when doing a film about a foreign land.

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