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Why does everyone have an English accent, but Brendan Frazier?

posted 14 years ago by simingsm
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Meggie was raised in Europe but Mo was originally from the US so he does not have an acccent. The entire movie is set in Europe. (Elinor lives in Italy).

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[–] thealmondsshadow 14 years ago

Fenoglio lives in Italy, too, and Capricorn village is there as well.

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[–] TheChamCham 10 years ago

The mistake was in casting an English girl to play Meggie. Raised by an American father, she would speak like him, not her mother whom she hadn't seen in nine years. They made the same mistake in The Mummy Returns casting an English boy to play Brendan's and Rachel Weisz's son.And then in the Mummy 3, the actor they cast to play the older Alex has an American accent. Why doesn't Helen Mirren's character have an Italian accent if she's lived there for years ?

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[–] Taravilyaion 9 years ago

Why doesn't Helen Mirren's character have an Italian accent if she's lived there for years ?

She lived there, but she hasn't been born there.
It also makes a difference which language you speak in the foreign country.
Some people simply don't adjust..

I'm from Germany, we have a lot of Turkish people here and a lot of them refuse to speak German too and they just keep chatting in their own language.

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[–] TheChamCham 9 years ago

Really? Turkish people in Germany ? (That's like Polish people in Ireland.) Doesn't it make you curious about why they moved there ?

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[–] Taravilyaion 9 years ago

Not really.

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[–] TheChamCham 9 years ago

Hmm.

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[–] Noxxia 9 years ago

That isn't strange. During the economic miracle a lot immigrated as guest workers. Here's a Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Germany#History

(Just in case you weren't sarcastic.)