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Hollywood characters having British acccents + sophistication?

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What's up with this?: I'm noticing now that Hollywood feels the need to give characters British accents in order to make them seem more sophisticated? They're doing this in just about every movie I'm seeing now. They do this constantly in several films and for some films in makes much more sense than in others. For instance, for the characters to have British accents in Narnia, makes a lot of sense. However, they're really going overboard with it. Take for example, in "The Prince of Persia", they felt the need to give the characters British accents, and I'm like "WTF?!! They're Persian for God's sake!!" Hell, I just saw the new "Oz: The Great and Powerful" movie and they gave the royal characters British accents in that movie too? What's up with this?
 

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Shouldn't this be in the Arts/Entertainment subforum? :thinking:
 

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I didn't really know where to put it?

Seems pretty clear it's concerned with choice of expression within the art of film making. I'm just being a pedantic jerk, don't mind me. :drwho:
 

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On the other hand, there are a bunch of Brits talking like Americans.
 

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What's up with this?: I'm noticing now that Hollywood feels the need to give characters British accents in order to make them seem more sophisticated? They're doing this in just about every movie I'm seeing now. They do this constantly in several films and for some films in makes much more sense than in others. For instance, for the characters to have British accents in Narnia, makes a lot of sense. However, they're really going overboard with it. Take for example, in "The Prince of Persia", they felt the need to give the characters British accents, and I'm like "WTF?!! They're Persian for God's sake!!" Hell, I just saw the new "Oz: The Great and Powerful" movie and they gave the royal characters British accents in that movie too? What's up with this?

The Americans make the British villains (the British are coming!), or they make the British sophisticated.
 

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Moved from Politics et. al.

Edit: also moved a few posts to OT. Don't make me turn this car around.
 

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Yes, the British have a class structure that lends itself to villainy or superiority.

It would appear so. I've also noticed that Hollywood often gives characters a British accent to convey a sense of royalty.
 

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Interesting to know.

The US revolutionary, Noah Webster, was immensely influential in America. There is his famous Webster's Dictionary and his spelling was taught in all American schools.

Noah Webster was an ideologue and didn't understand that English is based on the history of each word. So he decided it wasn't history that would give an English word its spelling, but the revolutionary, Noah Webster himself.

So for ideological and revolutionary reasons Noah Webster deliberately cut Americans off from the history of their mother tongue. And so Americans became deracinated and had nowhere to look but the bright and shinning revolutionary future.
 

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The US revolutionary, Noah Webster, was immensely influential in America. There is his famous Webster's Dictionary and his spelling was taught in all American schools.

Noah Webster was an ideologue and didn't understand that English is based on the history of each word. So he decided it wasn't history that would give an English word its spelling, but the revolutionary, Noah Webster himself.

So for ideological and revolutionary reason Noah Webster deliberately cut Americans off from the history of their mother tongue. And so Americans became deracinated and had nowhere to look but the bright and shinning revolutionary future.

I didn't know this. Thanks for the info.
 
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