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re: What makes for a terrible southern accent in film?
Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:19 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:19 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Daniel Craig (Onion) stated he didn't try for a southern accent. That's probably both accurate (he didn't try very hard) and he wasn't sure what part of the south he was aiming to mimic. (Which is ironic because British Isle actors are very conscious of both regional difference and class differences.)
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Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:42 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.
As with any area generic accents tend to fall flat for those from the immediate and surrounding areas.
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I've got "dropping the r" as my number 1 and the biggest red flag.
That really depends on the era being represented. Non-rhotic Southern accents absolutely existed and were very prevalent through the 50s and hung around well after that in some areas. In older people, this hung around until at least the early 2000s. There was an old circuit court judge in SC in the late 90's I used to appear in front of fairly regularly. For him, the word "car" was at least three syllables but there was no more "r" sound than in Southie.
Posted on 12/26/22 at 9:45 pm to BHTiger
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Teeter from Yellowstone.
That shite is cringe. When she was at the fair and wanting her fellow to win her a “bar,” I commented that if I had to play such an idiotic part that I would not tell my friends or family. Take the money and hope no one sees it.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 12:39 am to Auburn80
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Not using Southern actors is the problem.
I regretfully watched Where The Crawdads Sing last night with my invisible wife (so no pics), and most of the coastal NC folk are played by Brits.
OT: they also don’t understand or care about geographic accuracy. It was filmed in Houma area. And the characters (in the 60s and then more recently) talk about going to Asheville for things you’d run into the bigger city to buy if you lived in the sticks. Not Wilmington, Raleigh or even Charlotte. Meh, let’s drive clear across the state.
This post was edited on 12/28/22 at 10:11 am
Posted on 12/27/22 at 2:21 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
See Patrick Swayze in the miniseries "North & South"
Posted on 12/27/22 at 5:44 am to Athis
Dennis Quaid in the Big Easy is #2. Topped only by Nicholas Cage in Bad Lieutenant. Both actors efforts were so bad it seems like they were attempting a parody. How the Directors allowed it is beyond me.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 6:45 am to Roaad
Also see Hart of Dixie CW series. Lemon Breeland had a horrible one.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 7:46 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
Daniel Craig’s is so bad it’s good.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 8:50 am to tigerpimpbot
Season 1 of True Detective is one of the only shows that did So La culture and accents even close to accurate.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 9:56 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
Posted on 12/27/22 at 10:22 am to upgrade
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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.
take the sopranos cast, tell them to say yall and it would be better than anything hollywood has done in New Orleans
it drives me nuts with movies like JFK that are filmed in New Orleans. Do they not go around wondering why no one sounds like an aristocratic foghorn leghorn?
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Not using Southern actors is the problem.
Connie Britton in Friday Night Lights is the perfect example of why to use someone who has lived in the South. She isn't playing a full-on redneck and is smart enough to not turn the accent to 11 all the time.
One outlier I can think of is Kelly Macdonald in No Country For Old Men.
This post was edited on 12/27/22 at 10:29 am
Posted on 12/27/22 at 10:25 am to Roaad
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See Patrick Swayze in the miniseries "North & South"
My sister (no pics) and her gaggle of teenage friends in 1987 would kick your arse for saying this. They were Crazy for Swayze.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:04 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
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What makes for a terrible southern accent in film?
This thread is BS.
Southerners don't have accents....
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:23 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Worst Southern accent EVER was Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:41 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
A terrible actor
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:45 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Agent Pride on NCIS New Orleans with the fake New Orleans accent is pretty bad.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 1:50 pm to CoachDon
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Worst Southern accent EVER was Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Joe Pesci-JFK
But I agree with the poster that said that every Southern accent in JFK was terrible. But Pesci was especially bad.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 2:14 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
Lack of subtlety.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 1:12 am to TheFonz
quote:Swayze's concept of a southern accent was to talk like he was fromm New England. . .except when he said the word "here"
They were Crazy for Swayze.
then he would say "heyaw"
It was the worst shite you have ever heard
Posted on 12/28/22 at 1:56 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
Keanu Reeves in “The Devil’s Advocate”
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