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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 05/06/2009 : 5:37:34 PM
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Grrrr.. what did I see fairly recently with someone doing an appalling southern accent who should have known better... it was a bad attempt at the Southern Gentleman and it was absurdly out of place for the character. Sorry, it's just killing me but I can't think what it was... or who...
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AnnGora
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
252 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2009 : 7:43:45 PM
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Timothy Dalton's accent as Rhett Butler in "Scarlett" was a laugh riot. Of course, he should have followed Gable's example and not attempt an accent at all. Instead, he came off sounding like a drag queen in a third rate road company of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
She was bred in old Kentucky, but she's just a crumb up here. |
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Pip
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2009 : 11:19:59 PM
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Nothing but nothing beats the Joisey accent on the detective in Silent Hill who was supposed to be a native of one of the *really* remote West Virginia counties like Mingo or Poncahontus that Silent Hill was supposed to be in. This guy had generations of kin in the coalfields and he talks like a cabdriver from Orange? Right. It was like an SNL skit: "Sous I says to dis guy, I says 'Iz you thinkin' of goin' up to da Silent Hill?' Well, fugetaboutit.'"
Pip
"Shout for joy, if you get the chance." - U2 |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1791 Posts |
Posted - 05/07/2009 : 6:30:03 PM
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ginbot
I think you have officially gone insane!
Welcome to the club.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Asta Kask
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Sweden
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Posted - 05/09/2009 : 1:18:16 PM
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Can an accent be an Informed Attribute?
- Who is John Galt? - |
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dconner
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/07/2009 : 7:15:09 PM
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Originally posted by Greenhornet
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Also, we actually have normal names here in the South like Michael, Susan, Debbie, Richard, Lisa...etc. Not everyone here is Bubba or Truvie or Spud or Weezer...
I got a big laugh from the Barney Miller show when a southern businessman was being interviewed and he made a comment deriding the steriotype. Deatric (Spelling?) asked him his first name, the gentleman replied "William... Joseph" and Deatric came back with "Billy Joe, huh?"
What always gets me are the "Hollywood Southern" names that are (I think) supposed to be from the other end of the class structure. You get all these crazy character names, I think, when the writer's trying to imitate Faulkner or something. |
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