As opposed to what? Should they all learn ancient Greek?
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As opposed to what?
Whatever the “greek” accent was 3200 years ago? I have no idea what was, but I know it was/is nothing like the greek accent of today.
Holyhell the “Greek Accent” of today is nothing like what it was 100 years ago…
Finally if Greece is anything like the US and Britain (the two places where I am familiar with accents )there is no such thing as A Greek accent. Hell I will wager there are 100s if not 1000 greek accents.
This is just rage baiting.
These mfers want a hard "Hark!' and maybe a couple"Tallyho"
From the article:
The choice is a striking departure from the unwritten Hollywood rule of characters in historical epics employing British accents — from The Ten Commandments to Ben-Hur to Gladiator to HBO’s Rome. Obviously, The Odyssey characters speaking the various dialects of Homeric Greek, Attic and Hellenistic Koine wouldn’t make for a very accessible film. But the modern British accent is traditionally considered universally pleasing and “just foreign enough” to convey a timeless quality (even though it’s only existed in its current form for 250 years or so).
The trope is so consistent and familiar that even fantasy shows set in other worlds, like Game of Thrones, use British accents. In perhaps the most amusing example of Brit bias, the English accent was used in HBO’s 1980s-set Chernobyl rather than subjecting viewers to five hours of Russian accents (the limited series’ director, Johan Renck, rather bluntly explained, “[The Russian] accent on film is tremendously stupid”).
The Chernobyl miniseries used American and British accents. Who cares. Accents have nothing to do with how actors convey emotion
I would rather have Americans acting in their own accent that butchering someone else's. Even if they do an okay job, sometimes it can feel like they're concentrating so hard on maintaining the accent that their performance loses its depth and starts sounding like line rehearsal.
And all the brits or aussies in movies doing americam accents. I presume you harbor similar irritation at them
on the flip side when i first heard Damian Lews in an interview I was gob smacked after seeing him in Homeland and Band of Brothers
I'm an Aussie so perhaps his faux American accent was terrible?
Even though this is being ridiculed, I get it. We typically use a different register (encompassing vocabulary, grammar and accent) for things set in the past. It's a signal to the audience that what you're watching is not modern, just the same way as the costumes are. Unlike costumes, which can be reproduced very accurately, it's not practical to reconstruct the language used in the past so accurately; it will be a foreign language for everyone which is inconvenient, everyone would have to be dialect-coached, and it would make writing the script an absolute ballache. So we compromise.
Still, the juxtaposition of modern language with old-fashioned costumes is jarring to me and I guess many others.
Obviously, only English accents are allowed for anything that’s supposed to be in Greek. /s
It’s sad that the world will never have this story adapted in the original language with Greek actors. Movie studios and general audiences seem to only accept English for anything with a large budget.
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