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Snapchat A Titty posted:Viggo was born and raised in America and has a heavy American accent when speaking Danish. Yeah. A nasally American accent.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:As someone who is neither British nor from Baltimore, I thought Idris Elba was amazing as String.  I never noticed McNulty's accent, but Carcetti sounded a bit odd sometimes but not particularly often
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y Ví oll spík ingliss verí streinslí in Ćsland. Ví tend tú putt tú möts emfasiss on somm sánds end it sánds verí sillí.
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blunt for century posted:
As a Brit, one of the funny things that stood out to me - and I could be wrong - was that Carcetti doesn't sound like he's from Baltimore at all. He seems to have an accent I'd place more as a New York accent, or rather just 'generic' American. At least McNulty and Stringer sound like they're from the same place. Carcetti doesn't sound like anyone else in the show.
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Mar 17, 2015 23:22
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DrVenkman posted:As a Brit, one of the funny things that stood out to me - and I could be wrong - was that Carcetti doesn't sound like he's from Baltimore at all. He seems to have an accent I'd place more as a New York accent, or rather just 'generic' American. At least McNulty and Stringer sound like they're from the same place. Carcetti doesn't sound like anyone else in the show. I'm from southern US, and to be honest, I can't really tell the difference between a Baltimore accent and a Boston accent.*  Carcetti did sound like a New Yorker to me though *that is, with the white characters on The Wire. I can totally see a different accent with the black characters, specifically Prop Joe, Snoop, and Omar. The biggest difference I could see is with the way they pronounced the word "too". It always came out with an odd inflection, more like "tiu" to my ears
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blunt for century posted:I'm from southern US, and to be honest, I can't really tell the difference between a Baltimore accent and a Boston accent.* The best Baltimore accents in the show come from Snoop and Bunny Colvin's Lieutenant, who are both actually from Boston. He's actually played by Jay Landsman, who was the inspiration for the wire character Jay Landsman and Det Munch of much fame.
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Typically in America, unless you've really climbed your way up from a lower class to get into media or politics, at some point you've probably learned to mask your accent by adopting the General American accent. Maybe less so in the bigger east coast cities so that you can be a "True Baltimorian/Bostonian/New Yorker", but it's not unheard of, just look at Colbert who was raised in the Carolinas. That being said, yeah, Carcetti's actor probably just slips around American accents. I was drinking with a guy from London this weekend who was doing American accents and slipped between the GA and a really exaggerated Texan accent without really blinking.
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Can you really use the term "dreadful American/English accent" when referring to Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal and Casino Royale? Neither of those characters are meant to be native English speakers. He's not supposed to sound authentically American or English or whatever in either performance, he's just playing people who speak English with a foreign accent. Like himself. I mean Anthony Hopkins played Hannibal as a Brit, but in the books he's Lithuanian and I'm under the impression that the TV show is going for a "vaguely European" feel for his character as well.
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I think the books didn't even establish Lecter as Lithuanian, or any nationality, until Hannibal.
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Silly Newbie posted:The best Baltimore accents in the show come from Snoop and Bunny Colvin's Lieutenant, who are both actually from Boston. He's actually played by Jay Landsman, who was the inspiration for the wire character Jay Landsman and Det Munch of much fame. Apparently Kathy Bates' Baltimore accent on American Horror Story is spot on, but people who've never heard one before just thought it was weird.
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Snoop Radley posted:Can you really use the term "dreadful American/English accent" when referring to Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal and Casino Royale? Neither of those characters are meant to be native English speakers. He's not supposed to sound authentically American or English or whatever in either performance, he's just playing people who speak English with a foreign accent. Like himself. Weirdly I always thought that Hopkins was playing him as an American. It's certainly not a brit accent he's doing, nor is it his normal speaking voice. As for Hannibal the show I'm sure it's stated that he's European when it mentions his background, I can't remember where they say he's from though. Again, as a Brit, Hopkins fell under 'Generic' American to me. Ewan McGregor does it a lot as well. It's basically someone just rolling their R's as far as I can tell. Gary Oldman always succeeds because he actually places his accent as coming from somewhere and learns the dialect accordingly.
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DrVenkman posted:Weirdly I always thought that Hopkins was playing him as an American. It's certainly not a brit accent he's doing, nor is it his normal speaking voice.
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FreudianSlippers posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y A cool video in which Bjork almost kills herself by touching the components inside of a television.
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Snoop Radley posted:Can you really use the term "dreadful American/English accent" when referring to Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal and Casino Royale? Neither of those characters are meant to be native English speakers. He's not supposed to sound authentically American or English or whatever in either performance, he's just playing people who speak English with a foreign accent. Like himself. I think the poster meant that Mikkelsen sounds bad compared to most Danes speaking English. Also Hopkins played Lecter as American, just with an upper class tone of voice (think Frasier Crane). DrVenkman posted:Weirdly I always thought that Hopkins was playing him as an American. It's certainly not a brit accent he's doing, nor is it his normal speaking voice. As for Hannibal the show I'm sure it's stated that he's European when it mentions his background, I can't remember where they say he's from though.
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I know that I certainly (mostly unconsciously) mask my accent into the General American accent. When I get drunk, or really really mad, or super stressed out though, I get this super Texan accent to everything, and it's awful. I think a lot of times actors have the same problem with their faked accents during long filming days/weeks/months and let it slip now and then, it makes perfect sense.
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Captain Monkey posted:I know that I certainly (mostly unconsciously) mask my accent into the General American accent. When I get drunk, or really really mad, or super stressed out though, I get this super Texan accent to everything, and it's awful. I think a lot of times actors have the same problem with their faked accents during long filming days/weeks/months and let it slip now and then, it makes perfect sense. I have a coworker from Jersey. Every time he drinks he goes from flat, neutral accent to full-on Jersey Shore guido and it's amazing to hear every time. Same with an old coworker from Nassau, I think it's a pretty common thing for your brain to default back to when you're sloshed.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I think the poster meant that Mikkelsen sounds bad compared to most Danes speaking English. Yeah I meant this, and probably forgot I wasn't in the irrationally irritating thread.
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Wild T posted:I have a coworker from Jersey. Every time he drinks he goes from flat, neutral accent to full-on Jersey Shore guido and it's amazing to hear every time. Same with an old coworker from Nassau, I think it's a pretty common thing for your brain to default back to when you're sloshed. I knew a guy from Myrtle Beach who had a pretty pronounced southern accent that turned into a weird combination of Foghorn Leghorn and Bobby Hill when he was drunk.
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Whenever I get drunk I affect a british accent and I've never even been to europe.
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MindlessHavok posted:Whenever I get drunk I affect a british accent and I've never even been to europe. Ugh, you're That Guy.
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It was a joke. I've been to europe
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:A cool video in which Bjork almost kills herself by touching the components inside of a television. Bjork reveals that she was afraid to watch TV for years because someone made a confused attempt to explain scanlines to her
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I don't give a poo poo, I think Björk's totally adorable (including her accent).
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Speaking of awful American accents, everybody should watch Horns. Daniel Radcliffe can't maintain an American accent to save his life, and I swear it causes other actors to falter in what they say just be being around him. One family scene makes it seem like they're a whole family of american imposters from the UK
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KozmoNaut posted:I don't give a poo poo, I think Björk's totally adorable (including her accent). It's also hard to blame her for being eccentric considering this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_L%F3pez_(stalker)
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swamp waste posted:Bjork reveals that she was afraid to watch TV for years because someone made a confused attempt to explain scanlines to her There's an electron gun in that thing!?!
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KozmoNaut posted:I don't give a poo poo, I think Björk's totally adorable (including her accent). No I agree. A minute before she reveals this she's talking about how the parts inside the TV look like a tiny city. She's cool
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I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them.
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That's pretty funny.
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them. Great catch! And they recognized him as the guy who killed 20 LAPD officers like ten years before.
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them. Holy poo poo
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them.
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them. 
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Armyman25 posted:I was watching Terminator 2 recently, and realized that the only person the LAPD kill in the movie is an unarmed black man, who they shoot without warning, meanwhile they give Arnold multiple warnings to drop his weapon as he was advancing on them before they started shooting, even after he had used a grenade launcher and minigun against them. Makes you think.
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PYF Subtle Movie Moments: Subtle T2 Racism and Cyborg Privilege
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James Cameron really likes his fantastic sci-if movies to be firmly grounded in reality.
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I know I'm a bit late to the game on the whole Alien (s)/Blade Runner thing, but wasn't there something in Promotheus that confirmed this? Also wasn't there a Weyland Yutani thing in the Star Trek reboot?
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The Thing, Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th all exist in the same universe.
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Minor title/plot spoiler for The Babadook: Dada Book. Cute considering the monster.Hockles posted:The Thing, Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Friday the 13th all exist in the same universe. Oh. Okay.
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Axeface posted:Oh. Okay. Context: They had trouble figuring out how to make a film that's a sequel to Freddy vs Jason which included Ash due to rights issues, so they made a comic book storyline out of the script. Then made a sequel of said storyline a few years later; don't know what factors The Thing to take place in the same universe.  Also the original ending of the first movie had Pinhead intervene but they couldn't get the rights for said spoiler. Edit: Prior to the recent reboot of the Army of Darkness comics Ash met Darkman and Herbert West. 
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