Interesting story here
just wondered what you guys thought?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7860531.stm
I heard recently that Arnie's movies are often dubbed into German because his Austrian accent makes him sound like a farmner to most Germans, and they won't let him do the dialogue even though he is fluent
He who fights with Monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you
-Nietzsche
I think that in a show or a movie, if the actor/actress can actually pull the accent off it can really make a movie.
Some movies are made to revolve around the accent, Borat for example... I do not think that this movie would have made it as far as it did he would have used his regular voice.
But then there would be some movies that would be absolutely butchered by the actors/actresses native accent if it was used in the role the actor/actress was trying to portray. An example of this would be Isla Fisher in Wedding Crashers. In my opinion she has a very strong Austrailian accent but if she would of used it in the movie it would not have suited her role. Below is a clip of her in a Letterman Interview
On the flipside, butchering an accent can have the reverse affect on a movie (I think Gav has lots of examples of the butchered Queen's english in movies) most notably Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Voiceovers can work too, who else could have done Darth Vader's voice in the manner of James Earl Jones.
I guess it would all depend on what the director was trying to achieve with his movie.
So does this mean that the next time I'm on Teamspeak and a Russian map is loaded, I should communicate with a heavy russian accent?
I have decided to produce and sell a strong alcoholic drink called "Responsibly".
That way everyone in the country can get wasted drinking Responsibly.
And all the other drinks makers will be advertising for me on their cans with the slogan "please drink Responsibly".
Probably will annoy the government as well.
Hugh Laurie playing the American doctor Gregory House (Laurie normally has a heavy British accent)
Alan Cummings playing the Narrarator/Devil/President Roosevelt/etc. etc. in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (He normally has a really thick scottish accent that you can only barely hear when he's singing. And good lord, can he sing! Wow.)
"We are about to witness the inverse relationship between the number of answers you give me and the number of times I stab you." ~BM
