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re: What makes for a terrible southern accent in film?
Posted on 12/28/22 at 2:13 am to jdaute2
Posted on 12/28/22 at 2:13 am to jdaute2
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It always cracks me up with the way they think people from NOLA talk.
To me, the worst/most fake New Orleans accent in all of Hollywood is Harry Connick, Jr. The dude went to Newman and Jesuit and lived in Lakeview his whole life and yet he tries to sound like a 1950's Yat from the 9th Ward. It is the worst, most exaggerated New Orleans Yat accent this side of Frank Davis. And, unfortunately, it seems like everyone in Hollywood tries to copy his fake accent whenever they are called upon to play anyone from any place in Louisiana.
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Posted on 12/28/22 at 8:46 am to CoachDon
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Worst Southern accent EVER was Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Posted on 12/28/22 at 8:57 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
Yeah I love The Green Mile but their accents are terrible.
Instead of "Percy" they say "Poicy"
Instead of "Percy" they say "Poicy"
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:12 am to Thundercracker
Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.
So unbelievably bad to the point of being comical.
So unbelievably bad to the point of being comical.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:18 am to CoachDon
quote:I have no idea whether Foster did not did not nail a West Virginia accent, but Starling was not a Southerner.
Worst Southern accent EVER was Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
And she was playing a character who was actively trying to HIDE her rural, uneducated accent.
This post was edited on 12/28/22 at 9:27 am
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:35 am to jdaute2
NOLA accent is closer to Philly and central/ south Jersey in my experience. We don't have that New York sound. I can see the accent being mistaken for Providence and even parts of New England though.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 9:40 am to AggieHank86
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I have no idea whether Foster did not did not nail a West Virginia accent, but Starling was not a Southerner.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the South is composed of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia—and Florida.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:14 am to oogabooga68
quote:Good for them. Less than 25% of Southerners agree that West Virginia is a southern state.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau
But the point is that it is unfair to judge the “authenticity“ of Clarisse Starling’s accent, because the character was actively trying to hide her origins. Of course the accent is somewhat muddled.
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Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:24 am to AggieHank86
US Census Bureau vs Polling firm who gets it wrong alot...
Ok....
Agreed, but even knowing that I still CRINGE when I hear the accent.
Jodie Foster is a great actress, but I just have to grit my teeth when I watch the movie.
Ok....
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of Clarisse Starling’s accent, because the character was actively trying to hide her origins. Of course the accent is somewhat muddled.
Agreed, but even knowing that I still CRINGE when I hear the accent.
Jodie Foster is a great actress, but I just have to grit my teeth when I watch the movie.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:25 am to Sgt Tuffnuts
The way Brad Pitt says "New Orleans" in Interview With the Vampire is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:37 am to oogabooga68
quote:I agree. I have no doubt that she was intentionally creating a mangled accent. She is just that good.
Jodie Foster is a great actress
But if you were hoping for an regionally-accurate accent, I can see why it might annoy you.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:38 am to oogabooga68
quote:meh.
US Census Bureau vs Polling firm who gets it wrong alot...
57% of the people in that survey did not consider Texas to be a southern state, and I agree that it is not. I tend to think of Texas as being either a southwestern state, or the sole member of a category all its own.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:42 am to AggieHank86
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or the sole member of a category all its own.
Exactly the way I have described Texas to some people.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 11:29 am to McLemore
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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.
Haha this bothered me as well.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 3:24 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
John Malkovich in Deepwater Horizon was absolutely terrible.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 5:02 pm to Sgt Tuffnuts
The worst
1st runner up
2nd runner up
All were bad but Maggie has to be the worst.She seems to float in and out of her accent.
1st runner up
2nd runner up
All were bad but Maggie has to be the worst.She seems to float in and out of her accent.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 5:06 pm to RD Dawg
quote:Michael Caine (w/Jane Fonda) as a Georgia* plantation owner in Hurry Sundown (1967)
seems to float in and out of her accent
*Filmed in BR
Posted on 12/28/22 at 5:19 pm to BuckyCheese
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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.
Yes you do!!!
Posted on 12/28/22 at 10:44 pm to jfw3535
Jami Gertz -Twister
This post was edited on 12/28/22 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 12/29/22 at 9:00 am to upgrade
New Orleans accent is almost never right in movies.
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