Ok, I'm from Baton Rouge and travel to New Orleans alot and have many friends there and we do not sound like that. It was hilarious to hear them overdue it. It got so bad where I had to put the closed caption on b/c I couldn't understand them.
shareThey sorta did the same thing with True Blood, laying the accents on thick when it's not really necessary. Hollywood needs to spend a little more time in Louisiana (where I also live) before they make movies where the actors sound ridiculous. It's the one accent that actors never seem to be able to get unless they are born southern.
shareyeah i am born and raised in new orleans, and we do not talk that way..there are some parts of louisiana -- cajun parts that do but not in the heart of louisiana.
i wish hollywood would get it right -- a few movies actually did get it right...i think the worst movie portraying new orleans was "the big easy"...w/the sha baby...they talk like that in Vacherie, Pierre Port, Donaldsville, and a few other places...the plot of this movie wasn't so bad,it was the accents of faye dunaway that really pissed me off.
Hollywood needs to spend a little more time in the South in general. It's hideous how we're portrayed.
shareCan they not find real southern actors to play these roles? Or at least realize that we haven't sounded like Scarlett O'Hara in about 100 years!
shareNobody talks like that. Those weren't southern accents or N'awlins accents either.
They were just piss poor attempts at what was called for.
Shameful!
Yes, I feel sorry for any viewers having to listen to those accents, including myself -- and I'm not even from the Gulf.
I've lived in Tennessee and Virginia, and they usually do a painful job on those accents, too. So, I can imagine.
Lordy. I live near Shreveport and nobody in East Texas or Louisiana talks like that. My dad lived in New Orleans as did my aunt and nobody sounded that fake. They need to get some Southerners to act in these movies. Or listen to the locals and get a coach.
shareIt's true. SOME people in Louisiana sound like that, but less than half.
It's like Texas accents. 'Charlie' of 'Charlie Wilson's War'---Charlie was a Texan. In the film, Hanks did an accent from the 'Old South'. Texas has many accents, and none are like this.
Just think, if an actor played a Brooklynite, but sounded like an Austinite.
Carpe Noctem!
I've heard that accent for real.
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Ok for this movie the accent was a little thick, but the main girl wasn't from New Orleans, she was from a small town outside of new Orleans, so therefore she had the accent.
As far as the True Blood talking, there's a saying in New Orleans, "You have to North to get a Southern accent", Which is true. Baton Rouge and up you get you're typical Southern accents in Louisiana. They film True Blood near Monroe, La, which is almost in Arkansas, and that's how they really do talk there.
p.s. I'm i'm New Orleans....
What is it about Scottish men that make me weak in the knees?
I get the same thing, being from Texas. People who don't live here think our accents are thicker than they really are, when in reality they're not so bad.
shareit's a freakin' made-for-tv fantasy movie, people. NOT a biographical documentary depicting authentic demographical linguistics. get over it. if you really want to gripe about accents in movies, you're going to have to do it with MANY films in history (including famous and critically acclaimed movies like lawrence of arabia, the godfather, ben-hur, the bridge on the river kwai, the grapes of wrath, fargo, goodfellas, romeo & juliet, scarface, this is spinal tap, spartacus, tora tora tora, braveheart, etc....).
shareYeah, when she first started speaking, I thought she was trying to have a posh English accent.
I thought the modern-day scenes of Benjamin Button had good Lousiana accents. Although, a lot of people commented on that movie saying "we don't sound like that!" But, I'll just say, from a North Georgian's perspective, y'all do sound a lot like the modern characters in Benjamin Button.
Accents vary from region to region, town to town, person to person. I know people from New Orleans who talk exactly like that, and others who don't. Besides, we never think our accents are as thick as they really are. I'm from a very small rural town in Mississippi, and I don't think mine is that bad.......... until I hear myself on an answering machine or something.
Enjoy the movie/tv show and stop nit picking every little thing. I'd like to see some of us Southerners portray any Northern accent and get it spot on without months and months of coaching.