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- From: dascoser@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (david serchay)
- Subject: Re: Accents (Was: Re: Most Overrated Actor/Actress)
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:39:16 GMT
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- jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
-
- > In article <1992Dec22.160358.6106@nosc.mil> barrus@cod.nosc.mil
- > writes:
- > >
- > > In article <Bzn98t.BAn@unix.amherst.edu> writes:
- > > >In article <1992Dec21.080055.7355@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- > nealet@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Neale Type) writes:
- > > >
- > > >Accents, accents, accents. Don't you people ever pay any
- > attention to
- > > >anything else?
- > > >
- > > >Someone else please raise your hand if you couldn't care less
- > whether
- > > >someone has adopted the correct fake accent for a particular role.
- > >
- > > Generally, I think accents are irrelevent in playing a role. It is
- > your
- > > interpretation of the character that is important not the accent.
- > If you
- > > are having trouble with an accent then spending too much of your
- > energy on
- > > trying to get it right can take away from the rest of your
- > performance.
- > >
- > >
- > I don't care if someone doesn't get quite the right accent, as
- > long as it sounds reasonable. It didn't bother me that Robert
- > Shaw's Yankee accent in Jaws wasn't quite right: it sounded good.
- > However, accents can be a problem if the DON'T sound right. Costner's
- > horrible accent in Robin Hood is a case in point. It just sounded
- > dumb, and distracted the viewer of the film.
- >
- > --
- > Jim Mann
- > Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
-
- What about Tony Curtis's immortal "Yonda lies the castle of my Fadda" :)
-
- Dascoser
-