Her accent in the preview is northern Minnesota and a little Wisconsin thrown in. I am from Des Moines, Iowa, where we have a 'Midwestern' accent, which means we sound like the national newscasters you heard - very little accent.
But even if she were from far northern Iowa, touching the borders of Minnesota and Wisconsin, she wouldn't sound that way.
Greatly bothered by the filmmaker's choice with that. AND not actually filming in Iowa.
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Don't get me wrong, I will see the movie because I truly love Jennifer. But as a central Iowan, I do notice an accent. Of course, I am also a broadcaster, so I have an ear for these things.
It's all Big Ten country... who cares?
shareI tend to be quite mindful of how Iowa and Iowans are portrayed. And a lot of times, when Hollywood adds an accent to a character, they are looking to make people seem goofy, slow, ignorant, backward and/or rural. While we certainly have those people, overall Iowans are incredibly intelligent and far more urbane than Hollywood wants to admit.
shareThe thing is (I still have to watch the movie) that, as an italian who visited Des Moines, I can say that central Iowa has the most "neutral" accent I've ever heard, so if they added a WI/MN accent, maybe they wanted the background of the character to be not from Iowa but from a neighbouring State.
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Never noticed all those cowboy hats and boots sold at the Iowa State Fair, and all the people who wear them? I guess film directors like stereotypes, no matter if cowboy hats are worn only in special occasions.
Thank you! If you believe Hollywood, being from the Midwest is as bad as being a redneck from the deep south :|
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Garner was obviously imitating a northern Minnesota/Dakotas accent. Anyone that's been through the Midwest knows there's very little accent. Think Ashton Kutcher or better yet, Jennifer Garner. The way she speaks normally is considered very Midwestern. Also, the Midwest is very well mixed with race and religion, Although it is almost always portrayed as white, christian, conservative, redneck, and dumb.
And why did they have Hugh Jackman wearing a cowboy hat? Hollywood filmmakers seem to believe that the Midwest is Texas. Even in the remote rural areas of the Midwest, farmers wear baseball caps, not cowboy hats.
I watched the film because I'm a Jennifer Garner fan. It was nice to see her try a Rated R film for a change. She is so very PG-13. Time for her to shed the goody two-shoes image and try much darker material.
Amen about the cowboy hats. Cowboy hats in Iowa are worn mostly for special occasions by farmers. Any other day of the week, it's a baseball cap or nothing.
And you're also right about diversity, Des Moines is a rainbow blanket of people and I couldn't be more proud.
get a life, no one cares about a fake accent or the midwest
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I kind of agree completely. It makes no real difference to me at all. Why they wanted an accent I think is the interesting part of this. In this thread it says her natural speaking voice is of the region in the film. So I think the reason is to show she is from out of state, and is the outsider to the butter carving community of the film. I will have to watch it and see. I like Jennifer Garner for her body mostly, I don't really care how she speaks as long as she can breathe through her nose.
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She's attempting to mimic Sarah Palin. The film is an underhanded wink-wink among the Hollywood elite attempt to mock her. Only Weinstein, who funded it, doesn't pretend otherwise.
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^ Her performance is not exactly praised here, either... reviewer says she "communicates in scrunched faces and mimeographed stridence, never able to make Laura either a real character or a deliciously camp, larger-than-life antagonist."
D'oh!
But if you noticed, no one else has accents so I'm to assume she's from somewhere else.
shareWhile she probably was supposed to be imitating an Iowa accent and just went too extreme with the Midwest, a very valid point that you ignored was that we don't know where her character is from.
Her character could easily be from Minnesota and moved to Iowa in her 20s. We don't meet her parents and we don't know her background, so we can't say conclusively that she's from Iowa and she got the accent wrong.
"I don't make up the rules! I just think of them and write them down." - Eric Cartman
All this is true, but it seems likely she grew up in Iowa. It sounded like her an Jackmans character were together in high school. Also she went to camp with the character that sculpted the kittins. Also she mentions repeatedly that she is a proud Iowan and eventually runs for Governor
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