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- From: isaac@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac Truder)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: Re: Dracula's accent
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:37:28 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- > Though I havn't seen the movie yet(not out down under yet) I don't
- > see where the bad English accent of the count should make a
- > difference as Dracula was from Central Europe and admitted to
- > Johnathen in the book the hard time he had learning English. Also in
- > the book If I remember correctly you don't hear him mutter a word
- > after leaving for England.
-
- No, he doesn't have an English accent at all. He has a very thick eastern
- European accent, as would be expected. I thought this was the most effective,
- least "comic book" of all the accents in the movie, seeing as it WAS so thick
- at times, rather than obviously being a cheap affectation put on by an
- English-speaking actor to make himself "sound foreign".
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- In the BOOK, I don't think he ever said anything after leaving his castle.
- As has been mentioned before, however, no matter what you have heard, this
- movie does NOT follow the book that closely.
-