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WTF?? People From Florida Don't Sound Like This!!!

posted 13 years ago by zak1616-1
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This was a phenomenal movie that completely caught me off guard, but the only thing that I didn't like about this film were the crappy accents. I grew up in Florida (namely in Duval County, where Keannu talks about being a prosecutor for 5 years)and people just don't have accents like that. I even spent many, many weekends in Gainesville (Alachua County)visiting family and even there, people just don't sound like that. Not everybody from the South speaks like they're from Alabama or Texas. I know that it's just a movie, but talk about flat out annoying.

[–] KJax50 12 years ago

I saw this movie again after many years and wondered the same thing! I live in Orlando and most people here don't sound like that!

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[–] nashjar 12 years ago

Actually, in some parts of Florida a southern accent is common. I was born and raised in the Florida panhandle and most of us have accents similar to AL or GA residents. Although that particular accent is not typical for much of FL, there are parts where it is.

[–] MaximRecoil (4268) 6 years ago

I have a friend that was born and raised in the Florida panhandle (near Pensacola) and she has a southern accent, though she swears up and down that she doesn't. I'm from Maine and her accent is very noticeable to me.

[–] MSStMarie 12 years ago

No one talks with the accents Keanu comes up with.

Just listen to his "accent" in Dracula.

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[–] russellclo 7 years ago

I live in Jacksonville, which is very near to GA. Most people in Florida have a very, very slight drawl. When I lived in CA for a year I was told that I had a slight southern accent, and it was cute. I agree Charlize's accent was a bit overdone.

[–] cobes11 12 years ago

I noticed the same thing. But what really struck me was the way that Theron and Reaves only spoke with accents when talking to each other, and only sometimes.

[–] bsharporflat 12 years ago

Interestingly, Theron's biggest role was also a woman from Florida, in Monster.

Anyway, it was obvious, given Kevin's mother, that the director wanted to emphasize the difference between the small town South and New York City. Since Reeves is from Gainesville, a college town, it makes sense that they met in college and neither he nor she is from there.

[–] hitchcock_blonde 12 years ago

At the risk of sounding like a lawyer, do you in fact know what every person from Florida sounds like ?

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[–] bsharporflat 12 years ago

I'm guessing you check where the actor was originally from before you decide to hate their accent.

Kim Bassinger, Reece Witherspoon and Julia Roberts are southern girls, born and bred. Do you hate when they do fake northern or California accents?

I think Theron does a pretty good southern accent for a South African. Keanu Reeves...well....he bounced around a lot as a kid. Lebanon, Australia, New York, Canada. He tries his best.

[–] quionaxionada 11 years ago

A side of my family's from Florida, and I visited with them a couple of times. Now, they did live in an urban area (the same area where that Treyvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident happened), but I do not recall any of them having an accent. I do not have a southern accent myself, I have an Ohioan urban accent.

I think everyone has an 'accent,' but when we say it, the traditional southern one is the one that comes to mind for people.

[–] tbirdman-1 10 years ago

I grew up in N. California and lived on the gulf coast of FL for
several years in St. Petersburg which is the fourth largest
city in the state. And I never encountered any native Floridian
who spoke with any type of "regional" accent. I have three
friends over there who are all from other states and so none
of them speak with a southern accent. One is also from CA and
his roommate is from Milwaukee and speaks with a strong
Wisconsin Midwestern accent. Even the way in which she enunciates
certain words is noticeable and gives her away as being from
the cheese state. As for FL natives who speak with a southern
accent yes I know some do though like I said I never met any
who spoke that way.

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[–] Buckaroo-Robot-Monster 11 years ago

It's a "rural Florida" versus 'city Florida thing. I just checked out some Tom Petty interviews and Tom has no regional accent (so far as I can hear.) My co-workers have accents which are quite painful to listen to.

[–] amiwastingtime 11 years ago

Charlize Theron's voice in this movie was soo annoying. "You comin' baaaby?" Really killed the ending.

[–] sheepdog07 10 years ago

It is said, "Northern Florida is strictly Southern and Southern Florida is strictly Northern." You can go to different parts of Southern states and people sound different. For example, people in north Alabama sound different than people in south Alabama. I have lived in most of the states of the South, I went to school in Leon County FL, and most people that were from there spoke with like a Southerner. Usually, people in or around coastal areas sound different because people move to the beach from all over. Hollywood accents are just exaggerated.

[–] donitononaire 10 years ago

Northwestern Florida certainly does have many people with a southern drawl... Every it as intense as the middle of Georgia... But that's just people in rural areas who have roots there for over a generation.

In mid-sized towns and larger, it's 50/50.

But that's the only section of Florida where it's somewhat common.

[–] JennyDarling 10 years ago

One of my friends has lived in FL his entire life and has a southern accent.