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450272, because a british accent sounds "foreign" to us without actually
Posted by soulfunk, Thu May-07-09 09:28 AM
being a different language. if you're talking about a peroid piece in ancient greece for example, the actors wouldn't be speaking english, they would be speaking greek. so for the film to be "accurate" you'd have to have it in greek with subtitles. the mainstream american audience isn't trying to read subtitles for the entire movie (passion of the christ is the only exception i can think of), so you're gonna have the movie in english which throws accuracy out of the picture from jump. so if they are speaking english, do you have them speak in a normal american dialect? this would sound too much like what we hear every day and would throw off the vibe of the period piece. you could have the actors speak english with an accent native to the setting, but the problem with this is they would sound like immigrants to america and not people native to that period. also that accent may be difficult for the mainstream american audience to understand. so that leaves us with the option of using a british accent. this accent sounds "foreign" to americans because we don't hear it around us on a day to day basis, but it is easy to understand because it is the native language of both the speaker and ourselves.