Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time

[Marilink]

I agree on all points, SD. I think being snobby, arrogant Americans has a lot to do with it.

Also, I definitely noticed the Scottish vikings in How To Train Your Dragon. I thought, "That's weird." Then I forgot about it and enjoyed the movie. Which is what I think everyone's approach to accents in movies should be: accept it and move on.

[Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds]

No, it's not about being snobby, arrogant anything, so much as being really caught up inside your bubble. It's only particularly "odd" to hear the accent when it's something you're not already saturated with. The US is US-centric. You'll hear people with the standard US news-presenter voice portraying any number of folks in movies without batting an eye because you're already so ridiculously familiar and comfortable with it, you don't even stop to question how legitimate that accent is for the character.

[Marilink]

Well, I kinda put "US-centric" and "arrogant" in the same category.

[Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds]

Well, in that case. ;)

Though it's less about overbearing pride, and more about self-interest/absorbtion. XD

[Marilink]

I suppose that's true as well!

[CaptHayfever]

My theory on that is that British English is more "pure" than American English.

Not according to linguistics scholars.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

[Apollo the Just]

Except this time it's somewhat reasonably legit?

It's seriously one of those things that gets to me. OH NO NOT A BRITISH ACCENT. Do you see pretty much any film have the appropriate accent? How to Train Your Dragon? VIKINGS, people. Do you see those kids with any kind of Norse accent? How about the Scottish viking dad guy? Uh huh.

Never get it why people jump on the Brit's accent. I think it's something to do with you all being from the US. It's somehow hardwired into your heads that the British accent is ridiculously different and they totally weren't the people who were actively settling most of the known world way back when.

Nevermind completely ignoring the fact that they shouldn't have spoken modern English at all. Talk about picking your peeves.

And I'm totally serious. If they had used the completely standard "big city USA" accent, none of you would have mentioned it. Oh ho, the USA wasn't exactly around back then, but they should have had your everyday Hollywood accent, totally more acceptable and totally not jarring for Persia.

Just an aside, I don't care that much about the accents and I still plan on seeing the movie and enjoying it. The only thing I'd seen about this movie was the trailer, and all I noticed about it was the accents.

It is a weird peeve, I know. I wasn't trying to imply that because they are speaking AMERIKUN they should have AMERIKUN accents. Honestly, I was hoping for kickass obscure Persian ones. :{P

My point is, I've noticed a vast majority of films that are set in foreign places that use British accents, and it seems to me that a lot of these films use that accent to say 'hai gaiz we r foreinz.' I'm not saying that's always the case, just that I'm beginning to notice a pattern, so I pointed it out upon seeing it once more.

It won't impede my enjoyment of the movie, but you have to admit that Persian accents would be pretty badassed. 8{)

[Saria Dragon of the Rain Wilds]

We can't, literally, cannot know what the "Persian" accent would be. The Persian empire fell too long ago; we can get an assumed idea based on the languages that share common history with those spoken throughout Persia, but they wouldn't really sound anything like what genuine Persian would. Giving the characters Iranian or Iraqi accents would be just as removed from Persian as it is to give them British English accents.

[Apollo the Just]

Fair enough. I dunno, it just irks me for some reason. I'm weird and I pick weird things to be picky about. :{P

[Ace Mercury]

Yeah, I guess they wouldn't even be talking English at all. They should have made it like Wall-E, where anyone who mattered didn't say a goddamn word.

[Bomby]

The problem has noting to do with being snobby or US-centric. The problem is its obvious pretentiousness in a screaming bid to try to convince people that it's higher quality.

[Apollo the Just]

The dagger effects were pretty awesome too

Holycrapthatmoviewasamazing. 0_o

I was afraid they'd try to put evil sand zombies in there. I was glad they decided against that. x{D

Definitely enjoyable, I was totally glued all three hours of it. Epicwin.

I still feel that British accents are kind of spammed in movies that are supposed to be artsy and foreign. However, that definitely didn't impede my enjoyment of it. Definitely got my money's worth out of this movie. :{)

[juli888]

I liked a witch of a dragon and gins! Very good film!