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Why is Hitler the only person in Valkyrie who has a German accent? Everyone else has a British accent even though they are all supposed to be German.
Another example of film makers using accents to influence perception of characters. German accents are associated with evil things, so we give the evil characters German accents, thus perpetuating the "evil" German accent stereotype even more
The purpose of this short video is to show viewers that the media subliminally tells audiences that certain dialects are superior in America. Disney's audien...
While this video might be a bit of a strech in some moments, it does make some good points about how majority of good characters in Disney film speak in a mid-western, American dialect, while many of the evil characters are British. Language adds a layer to characters that cannot be ignored. How they talk will influence how they are perceived. However, this video shows that sometimes out perceptions of accents can come from film itself!
You all get the honour of hearing my disgustingly common cockney accent. You luck buggers.
Accent Meme Challenge Thing Your name and username. Where you’re from. Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, * New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY. What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? What is a bubbly carbonated drink called? What’s the bug, that when you touch it, it curls into a ball? What do you say to address a group of people? What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs? Be a wizard or a vampire? How old are you? Is it cold where you are? What is your favorite color? Do you have freckles? When is your birthday? What was the last thing you drank? Would you rather: Have a million dollars or a million friends? Eat a taco or a quesadilla? Be a shark or an elephant? Do you speak a second language? Say something in it. What do you call gym shoes? What do you call your grandparents? What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket? What is the thing you change the TV channel with? Choose a book and read a passage from it. Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life? Where do you live? Where do you wish you lived? Read the following words: Abrasion, Charm, Cinnamon, Demeanor, Elixir, Epiphany, Fermented, Heterodox, Iniquity, Labyrinth, Leisure, Mannequin, Mermaid, Pandemonium, Phoenix, Quidditch, Quintessential, Spice, Talisman, Unicorn, Warfare, Whiskey, Winter, Zest. Which do you say?: Chips or crisps? Jam or jelly? Rubbish or trash? Elevator or lift? Soda or pop? Pants or trousers? Taxi or cab? Mobile or cell phone? Do you have a phobia? If so, do you know its scientific name? Read the following tongue twister: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
Another example of what a real cockney accent sounds like, compare it to Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins!
This is a short video made to show you the tricks behind speaking with a cockney accent. Presented by Gareth Jameson an actor and voice coach. If you ever wa...
Here's a comparison of what an actual cockney accent should sound like. If only Dick Van Dyke had youtube when he was cast as Bert!
The very talented Dick Van Dyke at his finest as the street musician and one-man-band wonder, Bert. From the 1964 Walt Disney classic, Mary Poppins.
Dick Van Dyke portrays a chimney sweep, Bert, in the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins. His take on the Cockney accent is said to be the worst in cinematic history. Why is this so?
The Cockney accent is a dialect of British English spoken by residents of the East End of London, and it has been associated with the working class in that region. A semantic characteristic of the Cockney accent rhyming slang, wherein a word is replaced by a similar sounding word. For example, in the sentence "I'm going down the frog and toad to see Tom," the phrase frog and toad replaces the word road. A semantic characteristic of Cockney is the ommission of prepositions, as in "I'm going down the pub" as opposed to "I'm going down to the pub." While Van Dyke may make mistakes regarding syntactic and semantic details of Cockney, his transgressions are much more profound in his pronunciation of Cockney phonemes.
A phonetic characteristic of Cockney is the diphthongization of vowels. For instance, the word me is pronounced [mi] in received pronunciation as well as American English. The Cockney interpretation has the vowel pronounced as a diphthong and it becomes [məI]. In the film, Van Dyke is at times inconsistent in his diphthongization of vowels. For example, at he sings in a 1:08 in the video, he sings "your daughters were shorter than you. But they grew." The words "you" should both contain the diphthongization of /u/ into /ʊu/, but he omits the diphthongization in "grew." This mistake is so glaring because the two words in question are supposed to establish rhyme in the lines of the song, but his pronunciation of "grew" is markedly American sounding. He also excessively exaggerates other features of Cockney, such as the glottalization of /h/ as in [ʔəlo] "hello."
Bert, Van Dyke's character, is a chimney sweep. For a living, he gets very dirty so that other, sometimes wealthy, folk don't have to. Bert's accent, however inaccurate, serves to characterize him as different from the wealthy folk. The couple who hire Mary Poppins, Mr. and Mrs. Banks, are wealthy and this is made evident by their use of Received Pronunciation as opposed to Cockney English. The film uses language to establish characters. Van Dyke's portrayal of a dialect is not essential, especially since many of the film's viewers are American and have no idea what Cockney is supposed to sound like. After all, Mary Poppins is not a documentary.
It is the overly theatrical treatment of Cockney English paired with the more than occasional mixing of English dialects that makes Dick Van Dyke's accent so bad. Of course, it is important to consider that Mary Poppins did include flying nannies and comically dancing penguins. Perhaps the loosely interpreted and overly dramatic Cockney that Van Dyke brought to the screen was the perfect complement to his silly facial expressions and sometimes absurd dance moves. British people laugh at Van Dyke's performance, so in all the film benefited from his performance.
Have you ever noticed that villains are always British? Or rather, they always have British accents? This article uses “English” instead of the term “British”, but I attribute that to the authorship of the article being of British roots. Character development is simplified by movie creators by creating a blank stereotype for the viewer to insert they’re own background and information into. How do they know we’ll do this as an audience? Because we all have the classic characters in our life: the nerd, the hottie, the jock, the little brother, the crazy girlfriend, etc. But no one has the evil genius. This is where the British accent comes into play. American who gained certain freedoms from a certain other country way back when, Americans tend to view British accents with an air of arrogance, traditional and, let’s face it, sophisticated; all the makings of an evil genius, premade and ready to go with an evil plot. This article breaks down the accent usage in Star Wars as well as into some of the history of where the British accent as the villain came from.
Here's just an interesting, fun gif, where you can see Tom Hiddleston's accent! Look at his mouth when he says "hear" and compare it to how an American would say "hear"
Movie makers have limited time to make a lasting impression of deep, character developing, witty, ethically implementing characters and stories. But could their short cut techniques actually be indirectly teaching children to discriminate to anything that is foreign or different? Animators tend to make the villain, the comic reliefs, and the fools look and sound different from the hero and heroine of basically all classic Disney movies. Erin Wenke uses Lion King as his main illustration: first we compare Mufasa and Scar, two brothers who would presumably have been raised together by the same parents, yet they look nothing alike. The setting is in Africa, yet you only hear American accents from all the adorable lions and cubs, except for villainous Scar and his hyena minions. While kids were able to quickly grasp that Scar and the hyenas were bad, that Mufasa was the voice of good, and that Simba should have seen the difference, children have also naturally associate the likes of evil and bad with the character who looked nothing like the rest and who sounded different. Wenke relates this to the issue of a standard pronunciation within America. Children are learning that if they don’t speak according to the “normal” accent, then they are speaking wrong; while really they are just representing their cultural background.
Brave is coming out this weekend, so we can all spend our weekend with melifluous Scottish accents ringing in our ears. But where exactly do accents come from in the first place? How do we get them? What's the mechanism by which they evolve?
Have you ever noticed that when you start hanging out with some new friends, you start to speak and sound like them? That’s called picking up an accent. Yup, you speak with an accent. Accents could be considered merely noticing the difference in pronunciation in the way another speaks. You don’t notice your own accent but you will recognize if someone speaks differently than you. The different sounds are entirely physical, different moving of the mouth. This explains why you tend not to notice when you speak differently than the people you hang out with, it comes naturally out of you, muscle memory of your mouth. But you’ll immediately notice if someone from the next town over, from the next state over, or from another country begins to speak to you. But accents are not unique to humans, it’s universal to all living creatures. We physically lose the ability to hear sounds and to imitate and create those sounds around age one, although we can learn to hear and create them again. Why do we naturally pick up accents, or lose them, depending on where we go or who we are with? “Studies have shown that imitating an accent makes it easier to hear what the person is saying to you.” We naturally pick up accents because by doing so we require our brains to spend less time translating and processing the difference between how we speak and what we are hearing. We can understand better when we replicate the sounds being heard.
"If there's one thing Tim Roth can do, it's accents. Phillp Thomas visit dialogue coach Andrew Jack to find out how it's done..."
In this article, Andrew Jack talks about teaching the American accent to British actors. There are many little differences between the two dialects, many of the ones involving the letter “r”. Many British dialects ignore the “r” sound in words.
Here Jack describes how dialect coach’s “need an ear” for spotting differences between dialects and articulating them. Here in the article he talks about how Americans and Brits will omit and stress different words. Because Americans come from a very diverse background, he claims, “All Americans are foreigners” so they need to be more clear and formal with their sentences, so meaning isn’t lost in cultural context. On the other hand, Brits will mumble or omit less important words more often. He also brings up an interesting theory how the contour of a landscape can influence that regions dialect
Jack stresses how to properly acquire a certain accent, one needs to become their character and look though that character’s eyes. Seeing how these very specific factors like landscape contour can affect a dialect shows the importance of really placing oneself in the character’s shoes. You need to become them in order to incorporate all of the many little intricacies that going into how they talk.
Article from The Linguist Magazine discusses language, accents, and dialect as guided by Andrew Jack in Peter Jackson's trilogy.
In this article, Andrew Jack discusses his experiences teaching Elvish to the cast of “The Lord of the Rings”. Thankfully for Jack and his team, J.R.R Tolkien wrote huge appendixes on the Elvish language, as Tolkien was a linguist himself. In these appendices Tolkien included grammar rules and even different accents of he language. Because of the extensive work done on the languages, it was possible to write dialogue in Elivish that wasn’t taken directly from the book!
To master this new language, Jack had the actors do facial exercises to “prepare their muscles”. Jack did have trouble getting the cast to master the pronunciation of some of the words, because sometimes the crew would start pronouncing the word incorrectly, thus causing the actors to use the incorrect pronunciation.
Because a majority of the filming was done outside, so much of the dialogue had to be redubbed on a sound stage, one of Jack’s main jobs was to watch the lip movements of the actors to make sure they were correct and would match up when they redubbed.
Working as a dialect coach on a project like “Lord of the Rings”, puts Jack in a very interesting position. The series is extremely well known; so many people have their own ideas of how the different word should be pronounced. Thankfully, because of the extensive linguistic resources that Tolkien left, and the large amount of people who have put their life’s work into studying him, it is possible to (hopefully) achieve the pronunciation that Tolkien was looking for. For the actors working on this film, they probably needed to work closer with the dialect coach because there are little to no resources for them to listen to and practice.
A dialect coach, Andrew Jack, gives a tour of the accents of the British Isles.
Here's a great look at some of the different accents found in the British Isles. It's quite interesting to hear the elements that differ between each of the dialects. Having the correct accents from the British Isles can really add a level of authenticity to whatever you are making.
A partial list of the accents and dialects taught by leading dialogue coach Andrew Jack.
As you can see, one dialect coach can have a mastery of multiple accents. This list has over 40 different dialects! I was surprised by all of the intricacies when it comes to British accents, there are so many varieties. Although to an untrained ear, some of these might sound the same, the small differences in dialects can really help with characterization and setting the scene. For most people, when the accents are done well, you'll forget it's an accent. However, when they're done poorly, it is extremely noticeable!
World renowned dialect coach details a typical day on the movie set as a dialect coach.
Here is a typical day for Andrew Jack when he is working on a set. I thought it was interesting how he starts off the day working with the actor by just chit chatting in the given dialect. It's like the warmup an athlete will do before a competition. It probably helps the actor get into the state of mind before them are needed on camera.
The rest of the day involves Andrew working with the actor when they have any free time, practicing saying words and giving notes. He will watching the filming and give notes to the actor when needed.
He seems to be there throughout all of the acting on camera, and also works with the sound editor to help discern which takes have the best representation of the preferred dialect.
World renowned dialect coach for over 100 major films including The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, Captain America and Batman Begins, as well as theatre.
Here's a link to dialect coach, Andrew Jack's website. The next few post will be going into detail about the different sections of his website that talk about his life as a dialect coach
Todays practice audio is a selection of Root Veg pronunciation: Beetroot Carrot Radish Parsnip Potato Yam Whether you are buying or cooking these vegetables, this short podcast should help you practice your RP pronunciation. For more british accent practice visit http://www.learningbritishaccent.com
Here is an example vocab list form learningbritishaccent.com.
This can be used a as a tool for actors who have roles that requires them speaking with a RP accent. This could be a very useful tool for actors who do not have a dialogue coach.
The resources here are mainly bits of dialogue and vocab for the user to repeat and practice saying with the RP accent. They also get down to the specifics of the sound with how to make each one of the sounds based on the type of sound and the placement in the mouth.
This shows that actually learning an accent that is not your own, takes time. Some dialects have sounds that aren't in others. So, when learning the new dialect, one needs to get down to the specifics on how to make each sound. It tales many hours of practice to achieve a convincing "natural" sounding accent.
