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Post by Calidore on Sept 4, 2024 11:35:07 GMT -5
I remember Carol Burnett talking about the importance of the exaggerated Southern accent in the Mama sketches. She said that once at the beginning of a rehearsal they tried doing it in their normal voices, and it was just devastating. Those sketches needed those Southern accents to help add comedy to the drama.
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Post by impulse on Sept 4, 2024 17:15:21 GMT -5
Generally speaking, when quoting a line from something I tend to try to mimic some portion of the original delivery/performance as that is how the line made an impression and was delivered. I don't think it's really a conscious choice, just how my brain works.
That's what it sounded like, so when I reproduce it, I reproduce it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 4, 2024 20:46:21 GMT -5
I've heard comedians and other actors, on panel shows, quoting lines from American movies, in imitations of the actor. The ones who specialize in impressions and voicework tend to be better at it, for obvious reasons. Southern accents seem to be favorites or just easier to mimic. Then you have people like Johnny Lee Miller in Hackers and Bob Hoskins during most of his film career doing 40's style New York Accents (Bob did the accent so well that I was actually kind of surprised that he was English to begin with) Yeah, that's the other one I hear most often. I've heard more Australian and New Zealand actors pull off convincing American accents than British. Probably something in the attitude. On a similar note, I have heard more of them do convincing British accents than American actors. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 4, 2024 22:24:34 GMT -5
Idris Elba sounded totally convincing to me playing an American character in The Wire. And the other guy too, the cop.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 5, 2024 7:50:02 GMT -5
Idris Elba sounded totally convincing to me playing an American character in The Wire. And the other guy too, the cop. It always surprises me just how well some British actors can change their voices like that. I remember being blown away when I met Jamie Bamber( who played Apollo in the Battlestar Galactica reboot) at a convention and he had a British accent. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 5, 2024 10:44:53 GMT -5
Idris Elba sounded totally convincing to me playing an American character in The Wire. And the other guy too, the cop. It always surprises me just how well some British actors can change their voices like that. I remember being blown away when I met Jamie Bamber( who played Apollo in the Battlestar Galactica reboot) at a convention and he had a British accent. Melanie Lynsky, the actress who played Rose, on Two and a Half Men, is from New Zealand (she co-starred in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures), but had a perfect American accent, which she kept up, on the set, during shooting. She started to speak to Charlie Sheen, in her native accent, and he asked her why she was speaking so "funny." She had to explain it was her native accent, that she was from New Zealand, not America. He had no idea. I always found it weird to hear Mel Gibson with an Australian accent in Australian movies and then an American, on US talk shows. Every once in a while, with certain words or phrases, you'd hear the Australian pronunciation come out. I always wondered which was more natural for him. Toni Collette is another that switches between accents. When I watched The Sixth Sense, I had seen Muriel's wedding, but it didn't immediately click that it was the same actress. The first time I watched LA Confidential, I knew there was something familiar about Guy Pierce, but couldn't put my finger on it, until I watched a featurette, with his audition tape, in his native Australian accent, then it hit me; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! |
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 5, 2024 12:09:28 GMT -5
Then there's the case of Patrick McGoohan, who was a US citizen by birth (born in Queens, NYC), but relocated back to Ireland as an infant, and grew up there and in Sheffield, England. Probably one of a handful of actual Americans who have a legitimate English accent by way of the social and physical environs of his formative years.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 5, 2024 12:42:01 GMT -5
Then there's the case of Patrick McGoohan, who was a US citizen by birth (born in Queens, NYC), but relocated back to Ireland as an infant, and grew up there and in Sheffield, England. Probably one of a handful of actual Americans who have a legitimate English accent by way of the social and physical environs of his formative years.
Which is similar to Gibson, as he was born and raised in the US and his father moved the family to Australia, when he was 12. His Scottish accents was a bit dodgy, though. Then again, so was the history, in Braveheart. |
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Post by Calidore on Sept 5, 2024 12:53:12 GMT -5
Then there's the case of Patrick McGoohan, who was a US citizen by birth (born in Queens, NYC), but relocated back to Ireland as an infant, and grew up there and in Sheffield, England. Probably one of a handful of actual Americans who have a legitimate English accent by way of the social and physical environs of his formative years.
Which is similar to Gibson, as he was born and raised in the US and his father moved the family to Australia, when he was 12. His Scottish accents was a bit dodgy, though. Then again, so was the history, in Braveheart. Gillian Anderson also. She was born in Chicago, moved to London as a small child and back to the U.S. as an older child, and fluently uses either accent depending on where she's working. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2024 13:04:41 GMT -5
Then there's the case of Patrick McGoohan, who was a US citizen by birth (born in Queens, NYC), but relocated back to Ireland as an infant, and grew up there and in Sheffield, England. Probably one of a handful of actual Americans who have a legitimate English accent by way of the social and physical environs of his formative years.
Would have been interesting if The Prisoner was a US tv show and No. 1 was assumed to be Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 5, 2024 13:19:04 GMT -5
Then there's the case of Patrick McGoohan, who was a US citizen by birth (born in Queens, NYC), but relocated back to Ireland as an infant, and grew up there and in Sheffield, England. Probably one of a handful of actual Americans who have a legitimate English accent by way of the social and physical environs of his formative years.
Would have been interesting if The Prisoner was a US tv show and No. 1 was assumed to be Lyndon Baines Johnson.
More like Allen Dulles. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2024 13:29:57 GMT -5
Would have been interesting if The Prisoner was a US tv show and No. 1 was assumed to be Lyndon Baines Johnson.
More like Allen Dulles.
He'd be No. 2.
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Post by Confessor on Sept 5, 2024 20:53:50 GMT -5
When you watch American shows and movies, do you repeat lines with an American accent? Yes, definitely. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 5, 2024 22:31:38 GMT -5
When you ask your 18 year old “what annoys your mother the most” and I and him go “momma oooohhhh” 😂
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 8, 2024 16:45:32 GMT -5
Thirty-nine years ago, Mrs Raider and I started going out together!
A blink of an eye, I tell ya.
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