Does anyone else think that the accent of Fanny as a young girl is American ??
It's not British, is it ? And it's definately not an English accent like Cockney or something like that.......
Is there a reason for this ?? Shouldn't she have a British accent ??
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Well, obviously it's not the 'Oh deary me' British accent,considering her
life in Portsmouth,as you've mentioned, but it doesn't really sound like an English accent at all......it sounds like a bad impression of something English........and considering that Hannah Taylor-Gordon was born in London and attends a boarding school near London does make it even stranger as it already is.......
I've also wondered about the accent, because she does almost sound like an American trying to affect a British accent. But I also know that there are as many "British" accents as there are "American", depending on location in the country.
I guess it's a moot point, though, considering Hannah Taylor-Gordon is British. :)
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Frances O'Connor is an Australian, born in Melbourne I believe.
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There seems to be some confusion here:
The original post was referring to the "young" Fanny....
:) everyone!
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Are you people here all Americans?
I thought she was supposed to speak lower-middle-class-Portsmouth-English or whatever. There are dozens of different accents in England, not everyone speaks posh RP, certainly not an uneducated girl from a sea-side-town.
Being neither English nor American myself its a bit difficult for me to actually tell apart accents, but her English didnt sound very strange to me.
Well, I'm neither American nor British myself, but I can say for sure, that when I heard the young Fanny speak ('emphasising' the 'r's, like Americans)I immediately thought, what is this American girl doing there ?
And I don't think that should happen to people when watching these kind of movies (meaning Jane Austen adaptations where nobody should have a foreign accent, especially an American one)
Well, she doesn't have what I'd call a "typical" British accent but it's there and I like it actually. :)
shareDid you ever think that maybe she was just trying to have better dictation? She's a young actress and perhaps she was schooled to speak a certain way. I've done a lot of live theatre in my time and in every theatre class I took there was always an emphasis on dictation and delivery. I'm from New England and think I can have a Boston-ish accent most of the time, but most people cannot figure out where I am from because I have so much schooling in dictation and speech delivery. I've even been asked if I was British and I think I sound about as American as you can get!
Hannah Taylor-Gordon was probably around 11 years old when she made this film, which is pretty young if you ask me. I think she was meerly just trying to be have better dictation and to sound more grown up in a way.
There are regional accents in the UK where they pronounce the letter "r."
http://currentscene.wordpress.com/tag/jane-austen-odyssey/
I'm aware that this might be the case, in Yorkshire they roll the "r" a lot....
but I really thought while I was watching...this is an American accent...it's just what I thought...didn't think about how reasonable or right this thought was.......
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If you listen to the way her father speaks, as well as Suzy, you'll hear that they have a similar accent to the young Fanny. I believe the accent is intentional.
shareYou stupid *beep* how could you possibly have construed that to be an American accent?
shareFanny's mother was well-bred so she would have been raised around an upper class accent.
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