Who wrote her Mini Bio?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jacinda Barrett
Simon-140 — 17 years ago(August 01, 2008 10:23 PM)
"Although Jacinda Barrett was born in Australia, her all-American good looks"
So begins Jacinda's Mini Bio. Isn't it astonishing how people manage to succeed despite the terrible handicap of being "born in Australia," but I am puzzled about how an Australian could have "All-american good looks" - surely an oxymoron.
Seriously, the author of the Mini Bio clearly has a chip on his or her shoulder, and their contribution needs editing. As it stands it is just silly. -
Simon-140 — 17 years ago(August 17, 2008 07:20 PM)
There's another odd comment in the Trivia section:-
Dropped her Australian accent for her role in Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000).
Dropped it? So J.B. was presumably
putting on
her Australian accent until "Final Cut" was finally filmed - a bravura 28-year-long performance that's surely worthy of some accolade! But enough carping about the trivia.
Branstrom-2, it's good to know that I'm not suffering from homeland paranoia, but I'm not sure whether I'm equal to a complete Mini-Bio rewrite! I think we need a IMDB Pro subscriber to dash an email off to Jacinda Barrett's agent. -
seejanebrowse — 17 years ago(September 20, 2008 11:09 AM)
Jeez, people, defensive much? "All-American good looks" is just a figure of speech, and it's something that movie companies look for in actresses. If she were interested being a punk-rocker, then her "British thrash-looks" would be an asset.
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Simon-140 — 17 years ago(November 11, 2008 11:18 PM)
So it's OK to write something like "John Wayne was one of the uglier Ugly Americans" because it's "just a figure of speech"?
I would prefer to do away with such "figures of speech" since they're essentially meaningless. -
trois_bleu — 13 years ago(January 11, 2013 04:16 PM)
No need to over react or be negative, especially if not familiar with the expression. "All-American" is a colloquialism in the U.S. What it means is fresh-faced, clean cut, with a healthy, outdoorsy vibe, maybe a little preppy, maybe a little tan, a "good girl" look, not overtly sexy, though perhaps sexy in an understated way. The girl next door. Think Heidi Klum, Christie Brinkley, Taylor Swift, Bar Rafaeli.
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akchills — 16 years ago(September 10, 2009 06:21 PM)
I don't exactly see what is wrong for saying she dropped her accent?? I don't think they were trying to be offensive just trying to say that she did not use her accent, therefore she dropped it. Maybe that's just a common reference here?? Dropping it just means you stop using it, it doesn't mean she was putting it on for her entire life.
and All-American good looks doesn't really mean that other countries don't have attractive people! Even Americans are describes as being "all-american" it just means that she looks like the girl next door versus someone who looks exotic?
I get why the sentence constructed like it does was not very smart, but they were not trying to be offensive. -
halcyoner — 15 years ago(June 11, 2010 10:02 AM)
'dropping' an accent is not a new thing. Is simply an industry term here in the states for when some one speaks with an American accent instead of there native accent. You know, like Gary Oldman and Christian Bale in The Batman movies. Christian Bale even 'drops' his welsh accent for all the interviews pertaining to the Batman Movies. Taking offense to that is silly.
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Simon-140 — 14 years ago(November 20, 2011 06:47 PM)
'dropping' an accent is not a new thing. Is simply an industry term here in the states for when some one speaks with an American accent
If "dropping an accent" means what you say in the U.S. film industry, then the "industry" is abusing the metaphor. "The industry" is also being regrettably parochial, because the phrase has no value for non-Americans.
I know that
'dropping' an accent is not a new thing
, but I am almost certain that it's much older than you have suggested.
"Dropping" an accent is the metaphorical opposite of "picking up," or acquiring, one. While I don't have a copy of the complete Oxford English Dictionary (pretty much the unrivalled source for settling questions about the origins of words and phrases) I'd bet that English speakers were "dropping accents" when California (and Hollywood) was still part of Spain. -
Travallor — 16 years ago(May 17, 2009 07:33 AM)
I agree with Simon-140. I was going to start a thread on it but you beat me to it.
What figure of speech, change you figure of speech to reflect what you are saying.
She is Australian.
What does "all American good looks" mean anyway?
That the rest of us are ugly? That only Americans are good looking?
So there!!
P.S: I have changed her bio, deleting the "all-American" from it. Lets see if it works. -
herpaderpaderp — 16 years ago(January 29, 2010 03:57 AM)
Hardly sounds like a dropped accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7dMKo2u4GA
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SpiraMirabilis — 16 years ago(April 02, 2010 09:14 AM)
There's no big ethnic descent difference between most Australians and Americans. In fact it's pretty much the same. Going by her surname she's probably of English descent like any American could be. The mini bio makes no sense.
You cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters! -
fugazi-grrl — 15 years ago(March 09, 2011 12:26 PM)
What does "all American good looks" mean anyway? That the rest of us are ugly?
It means someone thinks she looks like a Farmer's Daughter, or a minister's kid. "All-American" easily translates to "Bible-belt goody-two-shoes".
I think the bio looks silly too. And I'm an American, but I'm not "all-American". An atheist, lesbian latina is about as un-American as one can get !
