(Rant) I f'n hate producers putting British accents in everything deemed "old"/"ancient"

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Show about Britian ....British accents
Show about Rome ....British accents
Show about Greece ....British accents
Show about Egypt ....mmmmm, how bout British accents
Show about "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away"....British accents





I'm trying to watch this Netflix Cleopatra documentary and all these f'n British accents are punching me in the face.
They even had that goofy shyt in the first African Queens documentary on Netflix about Queen Nzinga

Bunch of central Africans speaking with damn British accents...

I'm not some movie snob:
I can tolerate a lot and still like a show/movie. Also I'm aware that most stuff is just in the middle; not bad nor great just ...OK. (some "snobish" folks will act like if something isn't "great" then it's trash) One of the few things I will typically knock a project for is breaking established internal narrative logic.

EXAMPLE:
In star wars VIII admiral holdo hyperdrive jumped a ship into another ship. OK, but if you could just launch a mass into another at hyperdrive speed ....what was the point of all these damn space battles watched prior. With that one scene decades of movie logic was brought into question.



British accents "just because" are my new annoyance:
This never crossed my radar until I recently watched the Colin Farrell movie Alexander. I was like wait, why does everyone have a different accent? Then I noticed a British accent and thought whyTF would that even be here? There wasn't even a place called Britain back then, hell Huns hadn't even pushed Germanic peoples into Europe yet.

 

[Ake1725]

They wanted to put british accents on the wakandas breh. Africans untouched by colonialism and Europeans walking around with British accents

 

[Mook]

Always hated this and thought it might be racist tbh.

 

[chuckifubuck]

I always wanted to make a movie about ancient rome where every actor just has their own real life accent.

 

[Black Man of the Nile]

One of the GOAT Anglo-Saxon/British movies

 

[levitate]

@RehReh translate, please…

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

 

[invalid]

There is a perception that British Received Pronunciation (RP) has an "archaic nobleness" about it. So when they make movies about the nobility of antiquity, RP is used as the default accent.

Part of this perception exist because, even in England, most people don't speak with RP. For a long time, it was an accent exclusive to people who came out of Oxford and Cambridge, who, for the most part were royals, nobles, aristocrats, and other British elites.

It similar to the Locust Valley Lockjaw or the Boston Brahmin accent here in America.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

@RehReh translate, please…

Leave her alone, UK is english b

 

[BobbyWojak]

Completely agree, but the alternative is a lot harder to pull off so they default to this bullshyt.

 

[omnifax]

There is a perception that British Received Pronunciation (RP) has an "archaic nobleness" about it. So when they make movies about the nobility of antiquity, RP is used as the default accent.

Part of this perception exist because, even in England, most people don't speak with RP. For a long time, it was an accent exclusive to people who came out of Oxford and Cambridge, who, for the most part were royals, nobles, aristocrats, and other British elites.

It similar to the Locust Valley Lockjaw or the Boston Brahmin accent here in America.

I had to look those two accents up. Thurston Howell from Gilligan's Island comes up as an example of the LVJ. I never knew that was an accent that belonged to actual people elites that is.

 

[get these nets]

OP

The British stage forms the backbone of modern day dramatic film making.
Shakespeare's plays and other works staged old age stories with actors speaking what was then contemporary English. Including Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra.

Since then, the plays have been staged using that language and those accents in theaters around the world.

That has carried over into when films covering old age/old world stories are told in films and TV.

 

[Kasgoinjail]

They always use a British accent for villains in movies too

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

The accents in the Thor movies kill me

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Show about Britian ....British accents
Show about Rome ....British accents
Show about Greece ....British accents
Show about Egypt ....mmmmm, how bout British accents





I'm trying to watch this Netflix Cleopatra documentary and all these f'n British accents are punching me in the face.
They even had that goofy shyt in the first African Queens documentary on Netflix about Queen Nzinga

Bunch of central Africans speaking with damn British accents...

I'm not some movie snob:
I can tolerate a lot and still like a show/movie. Also I'm aware that most stuff is just in the middle; not bad nor great just ...OK. (some "snobish" folks will act like if something isn't "great" then it's trash) One of the few things I will typically knock a project for is breaking established internal narrative logic.

EXAMPLE:
In star wars VIII admiral holdo hyperdrive jumped a ship into another ship. OK, but if you could just launch a mass into another at hyperdrive speed ....what was the point of all these damn space battles watched prior. With that one scene decades of movie logic was brought into question.



British accents "just because" are my new annoyance:
This never crossed my radar until I recently watched the Colin Farrell movie Alexander. I was like wait, why does everyone have a different accent? Then I noticed a British accent and thought whyTF would that even be here? There wasn't even a place called Britain back then, hell Huns hadn't even pushed Germanic peoples into Europe yet.

They wanted to put british accents on the wakandas breh. Africans untouched by colonialism and Europeans walking around with British accents

I was just about to say. Young King Boseman would never.