I grew up in a small town in Tennessee. Yes, we do have accents. They're nowhere as severe as they were in the movie. It was actually kind of painful for us to listen to. I felt like I watching Mississippi Burning.
I agree with you 100%. As I have always lived in Tennessee.
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I was thinking the same thing! I'm from TN as well and while we do have a southern accent, it sounds nothing like any of the actors in this movie. I always laugh at movies when people try to fake a southern accent and it just sounds so.....off.
shareWell, imagine what you sound like to the rest of the world! you're used to youre fellow TNs ;)
now people doing that Bostonian accent in movies... HA thats always a good laugh.
That was the main thing I will remember about this movie... the terrible fake southern accents. It really ruins the movie for me when they talk like that. Sort of like Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias. She should have known better, living in SMyrna, GA. The best southern accents I have heard were the ladies on Designing Women. Now they sounded genuine. Even though I know Annie Potts and Jean Smart didn't talk that way in real life.
shareI agree with you about those ladies in Designing Women and their
southern accents. Now in Miami Vice Don Johnson's Sonny Crockett
spoke with a noticeable southern drawl as well. And DJ is a native
of Missouri. I live in Florida and some Floridians do speak with
an accent though not me since I am a native Californian.
Lorenzo In Sunny Florida
I'm James "Sonny" Crockett!
I live in a tiny town just north of Nashville and it was awful listening to this...lol
shareI agree. I was born in TN and lived there for awhile till we started moving around the south like to MS, AL, GA and even VA for awhile. Each state had their own accent style.
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