How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
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How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
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#2Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
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#3How did that many words get used with out once calling it the "Trans-Atlantic Accent"?
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#4Odd that they call out Cary Grant, he was in fact British.
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#5How did that many words get used with out once calling it the "Trans-Atlantic Accent"?
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#6Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
The original Star Wars movies were largely shot in Britain, and used British actors for many of the roles, especially the Imperial officers and officials. Carrie Fisher's family had worked in Hollywood during the "golden age" of the mid-Atlantic accent and she had been sent to an elocution school in the U.K. just before being cast for Star Wars - although she admits that her accent changed a lot in the first Star Wars movie.
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#7Why does all Star Wars movies use aristocratic British accent?
Maybe thanks to Sir Alec Guinness? (Who supposedly disliked the Star Wars experience so much that he gave Lucas the idea that Obi-Wan should die, just so that he would be rid of the role... This could be a myth.)
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#8Whenever I'm traveling in areas where people speak with an accent (either english or my native language), I can't stop myself from imitating it. Really badly. After a week or so I'm terribly annoyed by the sound of my own voice. It has even happened when someone was visiting, and acting in some sort of leadership role with a lot of speaking time.
So I could imagine a single Hollywood director could possibly start a trend (if everybody'a speech center were as spineless as mine).
Re: How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
#9Odd that they call out Cary Grant, he was in fact British.
His accent, however, was not.
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#10How did that many words get used with out once calling it the "Trans-Atlantic Accent"?
Yes, I've mostly known it as being referred to as the TransAtlantic accent rather than mid-atlantic.