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Wrongthink
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"Why does everyone in period pieces speak with british accents?"


  

          

regardless of the country it's set in?

Are focus group viewers so retarded they demand this nonsense?

...says Wrongthink

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Why does everyone in period pieces speak with british accents? [View all] , Wrongthink, Thu May-07-09 02:02 AM
 
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Three reasons:
May 07th 2009
1
RE: Three reasons:
May 07th 2009
2
      Name 10 examples of what you're referring to.
May 07th 2009
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           lol @ 10
May 07th 2009
22
           I'll give one GLARING example: Kingdom of Heaven
May 07th 2009
23
           But Norton had an American accent in it, right?
May 07th 2009
26
                Acutally Norton used a faux British accent in this case
May 07th 2009
36
           the ROME series
May 08th 2009
48
                ^^first thing I thought of....
May 09th 2009
52
you'll have to give a specific example of where it did not fit
May 07th 2009
3
gladiator?
May 07th 2009
4
      These aren't period pieces.
May 07th 2009
5
      A lot of Star Wars was filmed in England with British actors
May 07th 2009
7
      star wars was a period piece????
May 07th 2009
8
      long ago in a galaxy far, far away
May 07th 2009
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           ^^^period
May 07th 2009
24
      russell crowe didn't have a british accent.
May 07th 2009
11
      By naming Star Wars as a period piece
May 07th 2009
12
      I've got a right bad feelin' about this I do
May 08th 2009
50
      Not everyone in any of those films has a British accent.
May 07th 2009
15
           enough of them do to notice
May 07th 2009
19
                But that wasn't what he was saying, lol.
May 07th 2009
28
                     how are the two mutually exclusive?
May 07th 2009
35
I don't think they do.
May 07th 2009
6
because a british accent sounds "foreign" to us without actually
May 07th 2009
9
In that case is a patrician American accent.
May 07th 2009
10
See, I wanna know why all these british people have roman accents
May 07th 2009
13
^^^ now THAT's an answer, lol
May 07th 2009
16
well played, Sir
May 07th 2009
18
But how come no one in The Patriot had a southern accent?
May 07th 2009
20
You're getting crucified in here but I was wondering the same thing
May 07th 2009
21
I think it has something to do with the dialogue itself
May 08th 2009
49
Depending on the period in question, it's important to remember
May 07th 2009
25
Okay, enough jokes. Here's a real historical reasoning behind it:
May 07th 2009
27
So why not just have them all speak in American accents?
May 07th 2009
29
The American actors often do use American accents in period films.
May 07th 2009
31
      almost
May 07th 2009
32
           ha, true
May 07th 2009
41
I wasn't joking
May 07th 2009
30
Troy and 300 ain't period films?
May 07th 2009
33
They're more fantasy.
May 07th 2009
34
really? seriously?
May 07th 2009
37
      Yes, really. Seriously.
May 07th 2009
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           RE: Yes, really. Seriously.
May 07th 2009
39
           man, how many wwii films have had germans with british accents
May 07th 2009
40
                well, they were speaking American Patrician in Ben-Hur...
May 07th 2009
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                HA!
May 07th 2009
45
                That's because the majority are productions with mostly British actors.
May 07th 2009
44
                     RE: That's because the majority are productions with mostly British acto...
May 07th 2009
46
                          Wild generalization:
May 07th 2009
47
Actually they have tried using vocal/dialog experts on various shows
May 07th 2009
43
yo someone is in here saying star wars and 300 is period pieces.
May 09th 2009
51
yo someone here ain't got SHIT to add to the convo
May 09th 2009
53
it just sounds better really...
May 14th 2009
54
All humans before 1932 were British
May 15th 2009
55

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