| re: I suspect they were creating a context for the accent of the leading man. NMI | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:13 pm EDT 08/12/24 | |
| In reply to: re: I suspect they were creating a context for the accent of the leading man. NMI - falcon15 02:18 pm EDT 08/12/24 | |
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| And audiences have for a long time (maybe forever?) been pretty accepting of inconsistencies in accents both onstage and in movies, with many examples of accents that make no sense. No one rejects Thoroughly Modern Millie (the movie) because of Julie Andrews's unexplained English accent or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (the movie) because of Dick Van Dyke's unexplained American accent or, for that matter, the mismatch between Gert Frobe and Anna Quayle. No one rejected the famous Charles Laughton Don Juan in Hell because of Charles Boyer's accent and I'm guessing no one was bothered by Boris Karloff's accent in Arsenic and Old Lace, and I wonder if anyone was bothered when Erich von Stroheim replaced Karloff, which must have been very strange. And what about Ezio Pinza's Italian accent, not to mention Rossano Brazi's, playing a Frenchman in South Pacific? And accents were all over the place in the original production of Sweeney Todd, and hardly anyone seems to have been bothered much by it. (Although I would say that accents surely varied quite widely in 19th century London.) | |
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