Kruger's accent
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mycelo-338-14473 — 12 years ago(February 10, 2014 02:46 AM)
Are you sure you're talking about this movie? Because, you see, I think the movie where a south african villain who utters "diplomatic immunity" just after dying is called Lethal Weapon 2!!!
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bennyshambles78 — 11 years ago(June 20, 2014 09:13 AM)
Um, District 9? Sharlto Copely is South African/Afrikaaner so he's going to speak in an Afrikaans accent and use Afrikaans slang. Hell, he even sings an Afrikaans lullaby to the little girl with leukemia. He might be exaggerating some qualities of it considering he's playing a villain, but it's pretty much just how he speaks. I didn't think that Elysium was very good, but he was definitely the best part of the entire film accent included.
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francojules — 12 years ago(January 20, 2014 11:33 AM)
Well for a start, because it's not American, it strongly suggests that the character has for what ever reason, left his indigenous home place. Couple that with the actions of the character we see on screen, to me at least, indicates that he is always on the run from his violent actions, but he has found a home in LA where his past actions/crimes lend him an air of employability, which the higher members of Elysium have found desirable. And useful to their casue.
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whereisamber — 12 years ago(January 20, 2014 12:49 PM)
The entire film is very international in tone. Jodie Foster's character has a French accent, Matt Damon's character speak fluent Spanish but has an American accent, the President of Elysium is Indian, and Kruger and the other soldiers were all South African as evidenced by both their accents and the South African flag on their ship/plane/craft.
What I got out of all that was that international borders don't really exist anymore in this future. -
zwoopmugen — 12 years ago(February 13, 2014 09:17 AM)
You can also hear Spider say "Porra do caralho" when he's pissed, so you can add brazilian accent to the list.
I personally am not too fond of the afrikaans accent, but I felt it really added to the film. It saddens me to see the complex of superiority some americans display. They fail to realize that their accent is just as annoying for some people. -
bennyshambles78 — 11 years ago(June 20, 2014 09:19 AM)
Finally, an intelligent reply. You hit the nail on the head. I imagine these people would have the same reactions to Scottish (Edinburgh and Glaswegian specifically) and Welsh accents. Christ, we have a plethora of "annoying" accents in our own country.
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Bhaviq — 11 years ago(April 13, 2014 01:45 PM)
I'm South African and of course, I'm used to the 'Afrikaaner' accent and I understood whatever he said, like "boet" means, "my boy" and things like that.
I just don't like him as a villain, him + his accent didn't seem too convincing!
You don't watch Nolan movies, they watch you! -
scootergirl9988 — 12 years ago(January 12, 2014 06:05 PM)
I think he means the American accent we hear in TV shows, in most movies and on every national news broadcast, the one which cannot be traced to any specific region of the country. To us it's as if they are speaking with no accent at all but to the rest of the world? I guess to them that accent is quite heavy and, according to the poster, not very pleasing.
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mmayhem — 12 years ago(January 16, 2014 07:24 AM)
There are no dialects in American English, except in maybe some very extreme cases. There are a few different accents however, but the vast majority of Americans have the exact same one, exceptions being New York, Boston, Southern/Rural, AAVE etc. A dialect is when there is a sufficient amount of different vocabulary to distinguish it from the recognised standard form of a language. There are many different dialects of English in the United Kingdom and Ireland such as Geordie, Scouse, Black Country and Scots. The US, even though much, much larger in both size and population, has nowhere near the same amount of English accent and dialect diversity as does the British Isles. England is where modern English evolved from Anglo-Saxon over a period of 1,500 years, so there are all these prototype and archaic forms of English in certain regions that still survive to this day. English was already in it's modern form by the time it reached the Americas a few hundred years ago, so all the variations of American English come from a much more recent ancestor and don't really vary that much from each other in comparison to most British varieties.
. . . so in fact there is actually a much greater variety of English accents and dialects in just the UK than in the entire United States !!!
