Re: Southern American accent?
- From: Cece <ceceliaarmstrong@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:52:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 7, 8:09 pm, matt271829-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm curious about the accent of Zeljko Ivanek playing lawyer Ray Fiske
in the TV show "Damages" (which has just had a run on British TV). As
a BrE speaker I can tell that it's some kind of Southern American
accent, but not much more. To me it sounds kind of "extreme", perhaps
very rural, and I was going to ask if it could be identified more
exactly or pinned down to a more specific region. But I've read a few
comments suggesting that it's just a pretty poor imitation of a
generic southern accent. Any opinions? What does it sound like to
American ears?
I haven't seen the show, or even heard of it. Or the actor, either.
However, Hollywood does not approve of real accents, limiting American
accents to three: standard, urban North, and Southern. Hollywood's
conception, anyway. Standard is southern California, very close to
actual standard American, which is pretty much 1950's Midwest. Urban
North is Manhattan; it's very strange to listen to a character from
Chicago sounding like the Lower East Side. Southern is Ozarks, the
lesser educated portion; a Georgia lady should never sound like
backwoods Arkansas. Actors can do better -- I've heard them -- but
they are not allowed to on film. Every now and then, a big name actor
or an actor in a minor part can sneak a bit of real accent into a
show; the most recent occurrence I recall was that one of the
supporting actors in Murder, She Wrote would insert a bit of Maine
into his speech -- more dialect than accent, I think.
.
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