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Aye! pirate accent, ses I! ?

posted 18 years ago by obin_gam
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Hail to yee, matees!
Do the pirates speak in classic "pirate-accent" (eg. Aye! me matee) in this production?

[–] obin_gam 17 years ago

bump

has anyone seen this so the can reply to my question?

[–] gtasg71 17 years ago

they do in fact, to a very believible degree. This film was great, its a shame it couldnt have been a feature film on the big screen. I guess it would have been tough to compete against Capt. Jack. AAARRRRGH!

[–] membaone 17 years ago

Well a friend of mine was part of the production and he's from Malta where most of the movie was shot. So maybe the accent is not perfect.

[–] TR_Wolf 17 years ago

The accent you mean is WEST COUNTRY, which is still a regional accent in the UK, and yes, it was used in this.

[–] mark-3882 16 years ago

And as Mr James Purefoy was born in Somerset, it probably is not far from how he once spoke!

[–] teacher_tom516 17 years ago

This film blows the McFadyn version out of the water though I kind of felt James Purefoy wasn't as at home with his piratey accent as he was as Edward the Black Prince or Mark Antony. Still, the accents were great, the staging was acceptable, the historicity pretty much spot on (no STUPID plotline of having Lt.Maynard infiltrate Blackbeard's crew), the costumes were great (they got the Royal Navy uniforms right - though I was rather disappointed that Maynard's sloops had no redcoated Marines) and while it suffers from the 'telling instead of showing' problem of being a docu-drama the action is good as it is.

Tom516

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[–] marknathanziff 11 years ago

Go back and read the last comment James Purefoy comes from somerset so it's more he no longer sounds as ge would have, but to say not comfortable, it was probably a reliefito revert back to his original ananciation.