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Whenever I watch old movies the characters always have a different tone than they have now. It seems to have changed somewhere from the 2000s. Is it just me or did something change?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you’re talking about speech, I think you’re talking about the “mid-Atlantic” accent, although that fell off earlier than 2000. It was a fake upper-class accent actors were trained in. I don’t know much more than that about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also politicians like Kennedy did it. And so did jerry springer when he was a politician (he did away with it for his show). It’s kind of funny really

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Kennedy’s was just a Massachusetts accent, AFAIK.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It sounded real forced. We had a movie made in our country with some shots in US. Throughout these scenes all Americans had this uniform accent, even the black american actors. Glad they decided to ditch this