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and everyone playing a Scottish character can't do a Scottish accent

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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel like Hollywood was trolling with Connery's roles. They cast him as a fucking Russian sub commander with that accent!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yet he nailed the role. They changed all of the Russian lines to English anyways, with a really creative method that hadn't been done before.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

And before the switch, they showed him speaking Russian so the audience could realise what a good decision it was!

That movie holds up!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hollywood movies rarely do accents right anyway.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well it just wouldn't be the same if a guy wearing a tux came up to a woman and said "Ello' Gov'nah! Name is Bond. James Bond, it surely is!"

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Dick Van Dyke for the next Bond?

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

It's as if any play is for a given audience, and we have to bridge the gap with our own imagination. Crazy, right? 😆

Mind, I'm not criticizing your point, I agree with it, Hollywood has never been great with accents, it just has to be "good enough", like watching a stage play and the props have to be "good enough".