Does anybody else find Kate's accent in this film completely annoying? I've lived in the north of England my whole life (including Manchester right now), and she doesn't sound like anyone I've ever met. More like Daphne out of Frasier. I know the accent's meant to be over the top, but it would nice if English characters in American films had proper accents.
sharetell me about it! i nearly choked on my popcorn when kate's character first spoke. it's an apalling representation of a "northern" accent! i'm english and live in the U.K. but i watched this film with my mid-western american girlfriend and when she asked where kate's character was supposed to come from the best i could come up with was er...the north!
shareI was thinking she sounded a bit like a Bolton lass myself!
shareKate is English too...she knows what the people sound like. So whatever sound she came up for her character was obviously deliberate...this movie is a farce people!
shareWasn't she supposed to be Irish?
shareIrish? Hahah! She may has well have been. Being from the north of England myself I did see the problems with the accent and she certainly went Gaelic on more than one occassion. All I can say is I think it was meant to be a Lancashire accent of some kind, that's the best I can do. Not a good accent but there have been far worse accent crimes commited to celuloid. Don Cheadle in Oceans 11 anyone?
shareAccording to all the interviews etc I read she was meant to be a Brummy (from Birmingham)! I don't think she did it deliberately OTT because she knows what English accents sounds like. I'm English too but that doesn't mean I can tell the difference between all the different accents we all use. KAte's a fantastic actress but this time she stank.
shareThis is hardly a realistic film, so why all the fuss?
shareBirmingham? You're having a laugh surely? If it was meant to be a brummy accent I take back my previous compliment, it was terrible.
shareKates accent is OBVIOUSLY plucked from a little town call Tyldesley near Leigh in Lancashire...Winslet is genius!
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I live in Leeds in West Yorkshire and it's a fairly decent West Yorks accent as far as I'm concerned. Her "northern" accent is better than my southern one anyway.
sharethis movie is clearly a comedy so kate is just having fun with the accent! it makes her performance even funnier!
share//Not a good accent but there have been far worse accent crimes commited to celuloid [sic].//
Exactly. Costner, Slater and Freeman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Costner again in JFK, Tommy Lee Jones in JFK, Pacino in Scarface, damned near every actor who's not from Boston that's tried to do a Boston accent (DiCaprio comes to mind)... etc., etc., etc...
Exactly 100%, I had seen her in all but this one, thought she was amazing before, but wow! Her ability has no end I suppose...
shareI think thats the point.
I apologise in advance for anything I have said in the post above.
It's a South Yorkshire accent.
From John Turturro:
"There are two surprises here: 1) Tula has a broad south Yorkshire accent, and 2) Winslet employs it to enunciate the dirtiest talk ever heard from her on screen. When she speaks of "the back door", it has nothing to do with exiting a room. Yet Tula is also a touching, sympathetic character."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/03/24/bfturturro24.xml
She sounds remarkably like Bubble from the (UK) Absolutely Fabulous. In fact when I first heard the short v/o that precedes the credits, my first thought was that it was the divine Jane Horrocks.
(My god, didn't our Kate do well! I'm dead proud that I spotted her as star material when I first saw her in the TV sitcom 'Get Back' in the early '90s. She just had some kind of class, presence, plausibility and ease with lines that marked her out - lovely to watch in every way. And a few years later she's the lead in the costliest movie made! Not to mention all the other roles that have perhaps shown her superb talent more plainly.)
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I came here to say she sounded like Jane Horrocks :-)
I thought it was her too!
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There are many many people in the UK that speak like that. Exactly like that. I've lived here for a couple of years now and I come across it quite often. Not to mention people from shows like Coronation Street who all sound like that.
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shareI think it was a deliberate send-up of Jane Horrocks who is an ex -girl friend of Kate's husband, Sam Mendes.
shareit was definitely a real Yorkshire accent. I'm from Bradford, West Yorkshire and i instantly recognized it as a genuine yorkshire accent. some of you people just need to get over yourselves. just because you've never heard of something before, doesn't mean it doesn't exist!
I loved kate winslet in this film! she saw the best and funniest character by far.
she is english. don't be *beep* stupid.
idiots.
You don't say? So that's really the way she speaks and not an assumed accent is it?
shareI have it on good authority that Kate's accent is a parody of the accent typically heard by the blokes around the docks of West Rothersheffshire-on-the-Sea Suffield South Wilt-Agen. Bloody brilliant.
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Holy *beep* thought she was Irish!!!
I feel like a stupid AmericaN!
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It's funny, that's the way Minnesotans felt when Fargo came out. I may not be from Brainerd, but I've been there enough to know that nobody really sounds like that.
shareJust like people don't say "Joisey." The only people who say that are not from Jersey.
Like Fargo, the accent is based on reality but HIGHLY stylized intentionally.
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Jumping on the 'she sounds like Jane Horrocks' bandwagon :D
She also sounds somewhat like Helena Bonham Carter in Dancing Queen, if any of the 4 people who saw that flim are on this board.
That is exactly what came to my mind when I first watched this. Kate does sound like Helena in dancing queen. The characters, tula & pandora, do sort of have similarities in a way.
Personally though i dont have any problems with Kates accent, she can pull anyting off!
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