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10-24-2010, 09:16 AM
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My wife rented that last night. Why did they choose English accents for characters from that time period and geographical location? |
10-24-2010, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Inverness Scotland | | Cos America wasn't invented then?  I could counter with why didn't ze Germans spot Tom Cruise was up to something in Valkyri when he had such a strong American accent?
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10-24-2010, 10:50 AM
| | | It made a poorly crafted film even worse. So many flaws in this movie.... ya gotta just give up and accept it is terribad... then laugh your way through 
These "video-game" movies are all parodys- most unintentionally lol IMHO.
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10-24-2010, 10:55 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Making them speak English with a foreign accent doesn't make any more sense.
To bring sense into the equation, they should speak Middle Persian. |
10-24-2010, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by bruiser1964  American accent?
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10-24-2010, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok My wife rented that last night. Why did they choose English accents for characters from that time period and geographical location? | It's not just Prince of Persia. British accents are the mindless default for any game, movie, or TV show that wants the audience to register "old" or "classy." Think every movie you ever saw about the Middle Ages or Roman Empire, even if it's set in France or Italy.
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10-24-2010, 12:44 PM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | Well now this could make sense, since during middle age British people spoke French. |
10-24-2010, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bristol, UK | | | I didn't realise they did have british accents in that film.
I guess I don't register it, seeing as I live in britain, but now you mention it, they do have british accents...
... Nice.
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10-24-2010, 01:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: GTA, Ontario | | | To be fair, almost all of the actors aside from Gyllenharutfhsdgfh were actually British.
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10-24-2010, 02:54 PM
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10-24-2010, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad Making them speak English with a foreign accent doesn't make any more sense.
To bring sense into the equation, they should speak Middle Persian. | This.
Using an English accent as a way of indicating "foreigness" is nothing new, they've been doing it in movies pretty much since they started using sound. If you really want to get anal about it and be absolutely authentic, you could have them speaking the actual language and use English subtitles, but that can be tedious and distracting and can take you out of the moment even worse than having an "incorrect" accent. Having an English accent is no more unrealistic than speaking English with a Persian (in this case) accent.
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10-25-2010, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad Well now this could make sense, since during middle age British people spoke French. | I'd appreciate you not slandering the great country of Britain with this ... nonsense
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10-26-2010, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Bogfish It made a poorly crafted film even worse.
So many flaws in this movie.... | ... true .
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10-26-2010, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Number27 I'd appreciate you not slandering the great country of Britain with this ... nonsense | No slander involved. French was the global language up until around 150 years ago. At which point German and English took over with English becoming the main language around the end of the first world war.
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10-26-2010, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Number27 I'd appreciate you not slandering the great country of Britain with this ... nonsense | Your mother is an hamster and your father smells of elderberries. |
10-26-2010, 12:10 PM
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10-26-2010, 01:46 PM
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10-26-2010, 02:11 PM
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10-26-2010, 02:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | A horrible premise, based on a video game, with horrible actors, produced by Disney, just to generate a buck. This can be said of a lot of bad movies.
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