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Post by onebluestocking on Jul 26, 2019 2:51:00 GMT
I agree, which is odd because he is such a natural mimic, but he can only sustain it for a short time. Judging from the trailer, the accent sounds artificial, like an old movie character. But over the course of a whole movie, I will probably get used to it and won't mind.
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Post by mllemass on Jul 26, 2019 3:43:30 GMT
Maybe the problem is his attention to detail. Remember in Black Mass? He went to the trouble of learning to speak like the actual person he was playing, but everyone complained that his Boston accent was terrible. I have no doubt that he could have done a Boston accent, but he chose not to. And he insisted on giving Alan Turing a stammer when only Turing’s family members would have known about the stammer. I think he’s also dong a specific voice as Edison and not just a generic American accent. I think he prepares for these roles by listening to recordings of voices and accents so that he can mimic them perfectly.
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Post by ellie on Jul 26, 2019 10:06:58 GMT
What’s his Dr Strange accent like? Is it good? Because that will be him just doing a generic accent.
I always find British actors doing American accents slightly disconcerting as I know they’re “doing an accent.” I was the same with Hugh Laurie in House. Also BC’s voice isn’t as nice when he’s doing his Dr Strange accent because he goes for a more gravelly tone.
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Post by ellie on Jul 26, 2019 10:13:38 GMT
Speaking of accents I recently watched a documentary about FD Roosevelt and his speaking voice sounded nearly British. Is that how “posh” American’s used to speak? 😀
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Post by mllemass on Jul 26, 2019 11:38:22 GMT
There were - and still are - lots of complaints about his Doctor Strange accent because people wanted him to use his own voice. But, as he has said, Doctor Strange is supposed to be from New York so the movie would have to have explained how he ended up living in the UK long enough to pick up the accent.
I had no idea that Hugh Laurie wasn’t American until he was on that episode of Friends where Rachel flies to London to stop Ross’ wedding. Even then, I just figured he had put on that English accent because he was playing someone British. Eventually, I saw him presenting on an award show and realized that his English accent was real.
Tom Holland sounds very believable as an American.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 26, 2019 11:57:43 GMT
I can't judge American accents because I'm not a Native speaker but it seems to me that British actors who become famous for playing Americans receive less criticism that actors that people knew beforehand that they weren't Americans. Fox example, Hugh Laurie. Although interesting enough, I have read more and more criticism against him when at the time he was acclaimed for his "excellent" accent!
In BC case, I have read some comments saying his accent is better in his last outings as Dr. Strange and The Grinch (some people thought the character was actually played by Paul Giamatti). He tend to lose the deepness in his voice, tho. So some people aren't happy with it!
I remember Ewan McGregor was widely criticized for supposedly not being good with his multiple American roles but recently he was nominated to the Emmys for his Fargo roles (he plays American twins, I think!). So why BC would stop trying?
About Edison sounding "old". I don't know if it's the case. Probably, it's because he is very detailed about these things and I kind of remember he saying he listened one odd recording of Edison's voice but he purposely did an "old" British posh accent for his Christopher Tietjens. It doesn't mean he is always great in it, of course, but yes, he tend to include weird details in his accents that most people would not know and that can be misinterpreted by some, Ej. His Black Mass accent being called bad or even "the worst" Boston accent by randoms but strangely being acclaimed by the people who actually knew the real guy and at least two linguistics (!!!). The video of the linguistic reviewing multiple actors is actually not so kind with Nicole Kidman in Big Little Lies. The guy counts and shows the bits in which "she lost" her New England accent but BC ... He is great, he says, because he, as mllemas said, he went for the real person's way of talking and not a generic Boston accent.
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Post by onebluestocking on Jul 26, 2019 13:32:32 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 22, 2019 0:31:37 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Oct 22, 2019 1:02:42 GMT
The reviewer has the same complaints as there were two years ago. It sounds like they kept the unusual camera work, lighting and music - things that I liked, but maybe not everyone else will. If people go to watch it expecting a Downton Abbey-type of period drama, they will hate this move!
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Post by mllemass on Oct 22, 2019 4:03:53 GMT
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