Is it just me or is not just a bit odd that all the characters appear to have different regional accents ? There seems to be a mixture of Bolton, Scouse, Cockney, Midlands and the whole thing is filmed in Sheffield. We are supposed to believe that the whole group have been friends for years. This is a minor irritation on what was an otherwise tremendous film and then TV series.
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This is a good point, Mick is cockney the rest are just northern, that's how i thought it was i couldn't differentiate between the northern accents.
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Woody and Smell both have such strong accents at times I struggled to understand them (and I've lived in the UK all my life). I felt positively American!
Then I found out the actress who plays Smell was born with a cleft palate and I think this made her a little more difficult to understand.
I still haven't a clue what Woody is saying most of the time. Where is his accent from? Sounds like north East Midlands/Humberside but I can't be sure.
Woody's accent I think is Blackburn or Bolton maybe. To be fair when kids have been brought up in one area and then move to another area, they often (but not always) keep their original accent to some degree, so you could argue that some of them may have been born elsewhere etc. I found it difficult to work out where it was supposed to be set though until I saw a bus with Yorkshire 'something or other' on it, I still couldn't pin it down to one city or town though. Combo (obviously a scouser) I thought had probably "been around" a lot more and perhaps was meant to appear that way.
shareAlmost everything I've seen by Shane Meadows has characters speaking a mixture of regional accents with no explanation.I think he just lets the actors speak in their normal accents,its something which used to bug me from the start when I first saw 247(his first major film) but now just accept.
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