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What makes for a terrible southern accent in film?
Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:48 pm
I've got "dropping the r" as my number 1 and the biggest red flag.
Forrest Gump - great movie. But the way that Little Forrest dropped his r's would probably be the textbook example for actors of what not to do.
The other red flag imo is being overly genteel. Kevin Spacey went way overboard with this in House of Cards, while also dropping his r's, which is why I could never get through Season 1.
More recently, the guy who played the mayor on Reacher also deserves to be blacklisted from acting for trying way too hard.
Forrest Gump - great movie. But the way that Little Forrest dropped his r's would probably be the textbook example for actors of what not to do.
The other red flag imo is being overly genteel. Kevin Spacey went way overboard with this in House of Cards, while also dropping his r's, which is why I could never get through Season 1.
More recently, the guy who played the mayor on Reacher also deserves to be blacklisted from acting for trying way too hard.
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 1:49 pm
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Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:50 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
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Forrest Gump - great movie. But the way that Little Forrest dropped his r's would probably be the textbook example for actors of what not to do.
Probably not the greatest example given that Hanks based his accent on the young actor from Alabama who played young Forrest. So it was based on an actual deep Southern accent.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:51 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Not knowing that "yall" is exclusively plural
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:51 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
To me, they always seem to miss the regional variations, creating a sort of broad "Southern accent" that is apparently prevalent everywhere from Texas to South Carolina.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 1:52 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Dennis Quaid... The Big Easy... That was embarrassing..
Posted on 12/26/22 at 2:20 pm to Athis
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nnis Quaid... The Big Easy... That was embarrassing..
I remember laughing out loud when Dennis Quaid's mother started speaking...along with the Bride of Frankenstein hair and living in a shack on the water in New Orleans.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:00 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:17 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Every New Orleans accent ever in a movie sounds like antebellum Georgia. They’d be far better off getting actors from Boston and let them speak naturally.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:21 pm to upgrade
Those of us from the upper Midwest don't speak as depicted in Fargo but you don't hear us bitching about it every other week.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:50 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
1. Everyone in JFK
2. Connie Nielsen in Basic
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
2. Connie Nielsen in Basic
3. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:53 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Elsa Dutton it painful to listen to....I know it's TV but it's shot very much like a movie.
I've notice most fake Southern Accents try the "slow draw" where they really enunciate words like "y'all" because that's the stereotype. Most southern folks like to speak much faster and a little more high more high-pitch "hick". Also, the less educated the more butchering of grammar which is funny as hell....
Unless you're born and raised in the South I don't think I've ever really seen an outsider pull a believable Southern Accent off.
For Study actors should watch southern-episodes of "Cops" and may some Finebaum in the peak of Football season and you should get a good sampling
I've notice most fake Southern Accents try the "slow draw" where they really enunciate words like "y'all" because that's the stereotype. Most southern folks like to speak much faster and a little more high more high-pitch "hick". Also, the less educated the more butchering of grammar which is funny as hell....
Unless you're born and raised in the South I don't think I've ever really seen an outsider pull a believable Southern Accent off.
For Study actors should watch southern-episodes of "Cops" and may some Finebaum in the peak of Football season and you should get a good sampling
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 12/26/22 at 3:59 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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Elsa Dutton
It's the worst attempt at a southern accent I've ver heard in movies or TV.
It's an actual parody, it's so bad. It doesn't even sound like any type of American accent all, let alone "Southern."
It basically sounds like some mix of Welsh, Pakistani, and Down Syndrome.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 4:34 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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Elsa Dutton
Did people in 1883 Tennessee speak just like they do today?
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 4:48 pm
Posted on 12/26/22 at 7:03 pm to BuckyCheese
Teeter from Yellowstone.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 7:36 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
There isn't a one fits all southern accent.
n Mississippi the Delta and Coast accent is different than the rest of the State
n Mississippi the Delta and Coast accent is different than the rest of the State
Posted on 12/26/22 at 7:46 pm to AggieHank86
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To me, they always seem to miss the regional variations, creating a sort of broad "Southern accent" that is apparently prevalent everywhere from Texas to South Carolina.
This.
In Hollywood’s eyes, there are only two southern accents — Louisiana/Cajun and aristocratic Georgia farmer.
So basically everyone is either Ed Orgeron or Jimmy Carter.
This post was edited on 12/26/22 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 12/26/22 at 8:07 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Not using Southern actors is the problem.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 8:52 pm to Feral
quote:it's taken a long time to even get Cajun into the mix... like someone else posted, Nola used to sound like a bad Georgia stereotype. Hate to say it, but ol' Troy with his "choot'em" might actually have done some good in educating folks about La. And that's only for the Cajun sectors, for Nola you want Boston or the Bronx before you do the other stuff.
In Hollywood’s eyes, there are only two southern accents — Louisiana/Cajun and aristocratic Georgia farmer.
So basically everyone is either Ed Orgeron or Jimmy Carter.
Until I hear someone say "where yat baby", I don't buy any of it.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:02 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Fake southern accents and football depictions in movies are incredibly bad.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:16 pm to Bamafig
It always cracks me up with the way they think people from NOLA talk. The accent is much closer to a NYC/Boston accent than anything traditionally southern as others have pointed out.
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