aintforever Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 He wasn't a bad guy though, and his accent didn't sound anything like any Irish person I have ever heard. That's my point, he was cast as Irish instead of English on purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Darth Vader seemed to have an English accent. Case closed. Good point Dune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Didn't Darth Vader have an English accent? Aha, gadzooks! Didn't The Emperor as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 vinnie jones in xmen.... ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the stain Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 The hobbits had American accents. No, they didn't. Even the American actors put on English accents. One of them was Scottish. You are very stupid, very racist and an absolute disgrace. There is nothing 'fundamental' about the 'n' word in this story. It just gives you a stiffy, you sick little sh it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 (edited) Well give us some examples then.... We're waiting.... Played by Helmut Bakaitis (born in Germany to Lithuanian parents and educated in Australia). His accent sounds English and this ties in with him primarily acting in shakespearing type plays. Edited 12 June, 2011 by dune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Aha, gadzooks! Didn't The Emperor as well? yeah, probably never even been to England as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 No, they didn't. Even the American actors put on English accents. If they did they didn't sound English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 In Valkyrie don't all the Nazis have English accents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Didn't Darth Vader have an English accent? And didn't the Imperial officers also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 In Enemy at the Gates, the bad guy ( Ed Harris ) has an American accent, the good guys ( the Russians ) all have English ones. What a pointless debate this has become. ( And if anybody missed it, post #39 was intended to be ironic ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A891155 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 If they did they didn't sound English. Probably because 2 were Scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Escape to victory is historically accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 In Enemy at the Gates, the bad guy ( Ed Harris ) has an American accent, the good guys ( the Russians ) all have English ones. What a pointless debate this has become. ( And if anybody missed it, post #39 was intended to be ironic ). And yet you keep hitting refresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 it is true...they have/has been a trend of british accents in the "baddies"...not for anything against us but because of... It's because a Received Pronunciation British accent or Mid-Atlantic accent is associated with people who are aristocratic and powerful, and the evil characters tend to have all the power over the little guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 And what is an Orc's true accent then ? Orcward to describe, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 And yet you keep hitting refresh. It's like a car crash, I just cannot believe how you keep making a fool of yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 it is true...they have/has been a trend of british accents in the "baddies"...not for anything against us but because of... If they ever make SFC the movie Rupert can play himself then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 It's like a car crash, I just cannot believe how you keep making a fool of yourself. The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Pierce Brosnan in Mrs Doubtfire FFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill. "It is humiliating to be utterly beaten by these n i g g e r s." "I prefer land to n i g g e r s". I wonder who said this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadeem Hardison Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill. You do know that he never actually said that, don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 "It is humiliating to be utterly beaten by these n i g g e r s." "I prefer land to n i g g e r s". I wonder who said this ? I didn't know he'd said that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 I didn't know he'd said that. Every day is an opportunity to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 12 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Every day is an opportunity to learn. Indeed. Still, he was a great man and a hero of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Name me a film based on historical events that is 100% accurate? Time Bandits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowllyd Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-13727908 I think it's a disgrace how historical fact is being altered to make the film politically correct. It was just the same with Hollywoods depiction of the Telmarines from the Chronicles of Narnia. C.S.Lewis portrayed them as Muslims, yet Hollywood portrayed them as Spanish Conquistadors. On this subject, I've seen you put forward a theory about CS Lewis wishing to portray a battle between Christianity and Islam, with the good guys being Christians. What makes you think this is the case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Name me a film based on historical events that is 100% accurate? Star Wars. It said so at the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothersaintinsouthsea Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 As one of the elite I am placated. Dune you've not yet given an example of a film based on historical events that is 100% faithful to the facts. You may not know but the Matrix is actually a fictional story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintfully Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Dune starts yet another pointless thread. Where is Hypo to complain when the forum needs him most? All is lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 12 June, 2011 Share Posted 12 June, 2011 Yes it is done for political correctness, and I applaud them for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 I have it on good authority that Dune's dog's full name is Jake N*gger Dune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 RE the correct accent for orcs : Given that The Shire is supposedly based on the area around Stoneyhurst College in Lancashire, then Mordor, being on the other side of the mountains to the east, must be Yorkshire. ( How appropriate ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 June, 2011 RE the correct accent for orcs : Given that The Shire is supposedly based on the area around Stoneyhurst College in Lancashire, then Mordor, being on the other side of the mountains to the east, must be Yorkshire. ( How appropriate ). Orcs speak with a cockney accent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Orcs speak with a cockney accent. On what do you base this statement ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 On what do you base this statement ? I suspect the voices in his head told him so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 June, 2011 (edited) On what do you base this statement ? In the film, they are given a cockney accent. I'm just pointing this out to you. Also I always imagined that the Hobbits came from Devon (the South hams to be precise). That said Worcestershire/Salop is the region that most think the shire was based on. This is plausible as the industrialisation around ironbridge contrasts between the shire and north of the shire. Edited 13 June, 2011 by dune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 I think this thread should be hypo'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Darth Vader seemed to have an English accent. Case closed. Good point Dune. If they had used the voice of the actor who originally played Darth Vader (David Prowse, the Green Cross man to those old enough), Vader would have spoken like Ian Holloawy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fowllyd Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Orcs speak with a cockney accent. Do you mean in real life, or are you talking about their depiction in the films? If the former, then I'm afraid I can't help you; if the latter, then you're wrong. The Orcs' speech in the films is rough-sounding and guttural, but it's nothing like a Cockney accent. In fact, it's not like any regional English accent that I can think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Do you mean in real life, or are you talking about their depiction in the films? If the former, then I'm afraid I can't help you; if the latter, then you're wrong. The Orcs' speech in the films is rough-sounding and guttural, but it's nothing like a Cockney accent. In fact, it's not like any regional English accent that I can think of. Pompish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Think it was the goblins who were cockney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miserableoldgit Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Think it was the goblins who were cockney. Have I slipped into some parallel universe?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Have I slipped into some parallel universe?? We all do it all the time. It's more noticeable as you get older. Some people think it's due to degeneration of the brain cells but we know different, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Oh and another politically correct victory for the anti smoke brigade. Churchill is to have his famous cigar airbrushed out of future school text books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor in Vancouver Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 If ever there was a thread that needed a contribution from Deppo, this is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothersaintinsouthsea Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 As one of the elite I am placated. Dune you've not yet given an example of a film based on historical events that is 100% faithful to the facts. You may not know but the Matrix is actually a fictional story. Dune? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightysaints Posted 13 June, 2011 Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Lancasters were used in the Dam raid not Wellingtons, the Lancs were designed by Roy Chadwick, there is a Blue Plaque on my sons friends house in Chessel Ave Bitterne, Chadwick also had a hand in designing the Vulcan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chadwick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 13 June, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 June, 2011 Oh and another politically correct victory for the anti smoke brigade. Churchill is to have his famous cigar airbrushed out of future school text books. I expect Thorpe le saint has tip-exed them out of his already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now