Accents Annoy Anyone?
This was supposed to take place in the extreme southern United States well before the invention of radio and no one had a southern accent!
shareI lived in Alabama for several years and just some people had that accent. I think the mayor does. It didn't seem to take place that long ago to me. Was a year given or was it just Mrs. Claus saying "Before you were born"?
shareThe clothing and technology indicated 30-40 years after the American Civil War and still some years after Reconstruction. Granted, after the war a lot of carpetbaggers had moved in and likely would not have preserved local regional accents, and if they did well there, may still have been around years after Reconstruction. In fact, I shouldn't be annoyed at this movie at all, and should be annoyed at Gone With the Wind, as only Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell as her Irish-born father, and those playing the slaves have proper dialects, and then only because the actors studied them, Vivien Leigh for hours a day. Funny what will or won't bother a viewer!
shareTrue. I'm actually a stickler for detail such as that on my own works. I believe this film would be 1920s or later because of the trucks and buses. but there are a few things that bring the story further into the future like the Blue Christmas song, the cop's bicycle and a reference to driving a sand buggy. Plus going back to the accents and dialog, it reminds me of the 60s-70s which is fine because that's what I love about the Rankin Bass films. But it does make it hard for me to place the film in the period I believe they intended. Merry Christmas!
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