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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Jul 31, 2017 1:40:55 GMT
how does it make you feel when a movie or tv show gives someone a British accent just to make them seem evil? (sorry but I've always wondered  ) |
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Post by chainsaw on Jul 31, 2017 7:23:04 GMT
I just root for the evil guy.  It makes a change to South African, or fake eastern European, which it used to be. It also gets revenge for the tobacco chewing Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper from James Bond films type character stereotype of Americans. But as a nation you voted Trump in...... do we need a reminder now. |
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Post by milo99 on Jul 31, 2017 7:31:40 GMT
We are evil😉, I'm Irish and we usually are the crazy drunk ones haha
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Post by chainsaw on Jul 31, 2017 7:42:29 GMT
I'm thinking.... normally the evil characters have an RP accent, thats Eton Oxford/Cambridge university educated... like the pig shagging ex PM. Most Brits sound nothing like that... and hate the politicians just as much as the evil villans in Hollywood movies. Northern Accents.... Game of thrones, Winterfell/The wall... they are the good guys |
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Post by milo99 on Jul 31, 2017 7:59:18 GMT
I'm thinking.... normally the evil characters have an RP accent, thats Eton Oxford/Cambridge university educated... like the pig shagging ex PM. Most Brits sound nothing like that... and hate the politicians just as much as the evil villans in Hollywood movies. Northern Accents.... Game of thrones, Winterfell/The wall... they are the good guys Yeah we don't sound like that up north |
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Post by tartarus on Jul 31, 2017 9:09:42 GMT
I just root for the evil guy. It makes a change to South African, or fake eastern European, which it used to be. It also gets revenge for the tobacco chewing Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper from James Bond films type character stereotype of Americans. But as a nation you voted Trump in...... do we need a reminder now. Pepper was also in cannonball run or smokey and the bandit. or maybe both. So they might have done that to themselves. |
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Jul 31, 2017 11:57:34 GMT
something else that always bugged me... take a movie like Schindler's list - all the principles speak English with some sort of vague accent, including Goth and other SS leaders , but the unnamed German/Nazi soldiers all speak German. is that meant to distance the viewer from those characters? or so we know the Nazi's are evil?
that's a famous example but there are countless others where the bad guy - if they're foreign - speaks English, but their subordinates speak the mother language. is that to dumb it down for English speaking audiences, or is Hollywood being a bit racist?
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Post by dot on Jul 31, 2017 12:26:29 GMT
stereotyping existing in ... well everywhere. it's like a form of phishing or grooming ... entices you to think something is real/valid/true ... at the behest of the ... director/media producer/editor. .. whilst it may in fact not be real at all. you can ignore it .. or have it make you think it's real / (read spam) when "applied" in certain social circumstances it engenders .. what can only be described as a form of fundamentalism. (aka chemical reaction) the same can be thought of "graf/ stree tart/ urban ert" where the subject matter is vague or can be construed in a different way by different people. ..just another obstacle to take note of and move along.... you collect them like bingo as you get older.. but for some... "no more mature!" |
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Post by Still Hate Thatcher on Jul 31, 2017 15:53:18 GMT
I'm thinking.... normally the evil characters have an RP accent, thats Eton Oxford/Cambridge university educated... like the pig shagging ex PM. Most Brits sound nothing like that... and hate the politicians just as much as the evil villans in Hollywood movies. Northern Accents.... Game of thrones, Winterfell/The wall... they are the good guys Yeah we don't sound like that up north Speak for tha sen. |
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Post by Still Hate Thatcher on Jul 31, 2017 16:03:26 GMT
Stereotypes...
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Post by sɐǝpı ɟo uoıʇɐɹǝpǝɟ on Jul 31, 2017 16:29:49 GMT
I'm thinking.... normally the evil characters have an RP accent, thats Eton Oxford/Cambridge university educated... like the pig shagging ex PM. Most Brits sound nothing like that... and hate the politicians just as much as the evil villans in Hollywood movies. Northern Accents.... Game of thrones, Winterfell/The wall... they are the good guys ah you and your regional accents... still can;t understand a fucking thing Kelly says on Misfits guess it would be the equivalent of some backwoods regional US accents (think Boomhauer on KOTH) |
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Post by chainsaw on Jul 31, 2017 16:50:08 GMT
Just be thankful you don't have this American accent
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Post by chainsaw on Jul 31, 2017 17:12:25 GMT
ah you and your regional accents... still can;t understand a fucking thing Kelly says on Misfits guess it would be the equivalent of some backwoods regional US accents (think Boomhauer on KOTH) Kelly? Misfits? Thats someone from Derbyshire putting on a generic London accent So like someone from Chicago trying to sound like a New Yorker |
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Post by illu on Jul 31, 2017 17:18:24 GMT
how does it make you feel when a movie or tv show gives someone a British accent just to make them seem evil? (sorry but I've always wondered ) if you think this is evil, think about the fact, that all the nazis in movies get an german accent.....that's evil! |
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Post by dot on Jul 31, 2017 22:30:01 GMT
...well you did ask.
..you want some jazz ?
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Post by dot on Jul 31, 2017 22:34:07 GMT
do people speak like this....
i'd say AYE they do... in some parts
but they're not as funny.
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