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The 'New Yorker' dialogue got old REAL QUICK


I know they were trying to give it a 30s, New York vibe, but I think this would have worked with just plain English and straight-forward accents.

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It was the _bad_ Aussie attempts at NYC accents that got old real fast. DC was shot in Australia and the supporting actors and extras were all Aussies.

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True, I did know one of them was an Australia actor and I thought he was hamming it on a little too much.

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That would be Colin Friels I guess.



Foreign actors usually go nuts when they try to do our accent but especially so if it's a strong accent like deep south or Brooklyn for instance. Even a lot of American actors struggle with those and Aussies have to somehow hide their own crazy strong nasal accent and cover it with a strong American one so it's no surprise they always get it so wrong.

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Not all Australians have the 'nasal' accent. Russell Crowe, for example, has a deep manly voice.

But about American accents doing regional accents, I have noticed that many cannot pull off the southern accent to save their life. Why not just hire people from the South?

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But about American accents doing regional accents, I have noticed that many cannot pull off the southern accent to save their life. Why not just hire people from the South?

That's a _great_ question.

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Meh. The accents and speech patterns are easily rationalized by it being an artifact of the Strangers mucking about with the subjects' memories. We don't know where on Earth any of these people came from and there are real life documented instances of people developing "accents" as a result of brain trauma. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome It hardly seems to stretch credulity that chemically reprogramming people's brains could produce a similar effect.

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