a white guy with an Australian accent is a Spaniard?
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Kalustratus — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 08:14 PM)
To be honest with most of the characters in this movie having English accents I don't think Russle's mild Aussie twang was a problem. Lucilla and Juba seemed to have the most authentic accents out of everyone and do we even know what Spaniards sounded like in that period? Visigoths ruled before the Moors and before them it was Vandals and Suebi, all these bar the moors were Germanic tribes.
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martinusx — 12 years ago(March 11, 2014 03:28 AM)
I think the accent doesn't realy matter in this case. He should have spoken Latin with the then common accent in Spain. If you speak English then an accent doesn't matter. And besides, Maximus talking like "You, seor Emperore, areh aaaa wizze man-e' would ruin it me thinks
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Shade2 — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 07:29 AM)
During this time, as someone else has pointed out, the darker skinned Moors were several centuries away from invading, and the Romans had well established colonies in Hispania at the time Gladiator is set. The Emperor Hadrian famously came from one such colony in Spain and was ridiculed for his accent.
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Cult_of_Kibner — 11 years ago(July 30, 2014 10:04 PM)
That explains the skin tone. What about the accent?
The accent means nothing. You might as well ask why he's speaking English.
And could they have just made Maximus something else?
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irishaspaddyspig — 12 years ago(March 17, 2014 01:42 PM)
The native Spanish are mix of Mediterranean and Nordic.Caucasian.
'"White" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa."
US Census 2000
There are 4 basic races:
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Negroid
Australoid
Read this
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-human-races.html
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fbplayer1064 — 11 years ago(April 12, 2014 04:45 PM)
I'll never understand why people think people from Spain look like Mexicans or South Americans. The people from Central and South American are dark because the natives that the Europeans mated with were darker people. I've lived in Spain. They are white peopleIf you want to know what people of this time looked like take a look at people who live in Aragon, gasp! they are white
Also there is nobody on the planet that speaks Latin natively anymore so we have no idea about their accents. -
ready-for-the-good-times — 11 years ago(June 04, 2014 01:26 PM)
I'm a European person who has lived with Spanish people and visited Spain a hundred times. It is a European city like any other and the native people are certainly white. Some are tanned and few in the South even have some Arab ancestry from a long time back - but Spaniards are definitely considered white. Some are tanned, but I can't believe the replies saying that they are not Caucasian. This is a joke, almost certainly not a European or anyone who has been to Europe who wrote that. They are European white people, not Mexicans. Latin Americans are generally 'dark' because they are generally more mixed - Spanish conquerers, native South Americans, some African blood etc. I know Spanish people way whiter than Russell Crowe.
Spanish people from Spain are often blonde, brown haired, black haired, pale, tanned, blue eyed, green eyed, brown eyed.
The accent wasn't right, but as English speakers they make an Archaic 'accent' as this fits our view of history. I think it was fine. -
ledge12-1 — 11 years ago(July 22, 2014 12:03 AM)
Spaniards Decended from the Iberians, who IIRC were probably offshoot tribes of Gauls (the modern french) the Italians/Romans came from Etruscian societies.
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bigmyc04 — 11 years ago(January 05, 2015 08:36 AM)
I'm sure that you've realize by now that Spaniards, in the traditional sense, are white. You do know this, right? Is Penelope Cruz anything but white? Antonio Banderas? Andy Garcia? Is there much difference in the look of Spaniards, Italians or even Greeks, for that matter? I don't think so. Furthermore, Crowe didn't employ an Australian accent in the film..or at least, he tried not to. You must be confusing "Hispanic" with "Spanish." In North America, we are more familiar with the multi-bred Hispanics that are from Puerto Rico, Mexico and Central American and Caribbean regions. Many of these people and their look is the result of hundreds of years of breeding with the indigenous populace (indians) and blacks.
So yeah, Spaniards are caucasianlike any other nationality in southern Europe.