Stop complaining about the lack of accents
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Tin_ear — 10 years ago(September 23, 2015 06:16 PM)
Yes, fine, everyone can be said to have some accent. Stop complaining about a lack of modern
British
accents, you know what I mean.
You don't see Italian people upset that every Roman emperor ever depicted on film speaks like he graduated from Cambridge. And if you ever saw their hair back then, they were pretty ugly, a lot of tonsures, awful bowlcuts, and (if Olivier's Richard III was accurate) plenty of mullets. That might be more accurate than anyone wants to admit.
If the filmmakers had been more accurate with accents or hair, people would be making fun of Kevin Costner for having long greasy hair with lice and speaking broken English with a French accent. I'm surprised someone hasn't complained yet because he is a Crusades survivor and he isn't depicted with PTSD. -
meissner_mike — 10 years ago(October 13, 2015 04:49 PM)
There's been much ado about accents in this film. In particular, people from the UK taking issue with an American, with a flat American accent, portraying and English hero. Let's be clear I never took issue with oh say black hawk down, for instance. With mostly Engish and other foreign actors with very bad Anerican accents portraying American Rangers. And yes, I can tell when a Brit is trying to sound American, it sticks out like a sore thumb. The movie doesn't try to be historic or anything other than a little action and adventure and some laughs. For me it reminds of that summer I came back from the Gulf when I was in the Marines. Me and my buddies going to see T2 (Terminator 2) and Robin Hood prince of thieves. It was a just a good time and still is
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JumeirahSun — 10 years ago(February 08, 2016 06:38 PM)
I think at this point in time the nobility at least (Robin, Marian, Richard, Sherriff, etc.) would have spoken old or middle French.
The issue is perhaps not so much the lack of historical accuracy, but that a very English hero, Robin Hood, is played by an American actor, and a very mediocre performance it is too. It would be courteous to allow the British people to represent their own legends, but that doesn't sell movie tickets. Costner was a big star at the time; that's why he got the role.