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Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #120 on: June 16, 2023, 09:26:28 AM »
2hours 9m into Le Mans '66, lad watching his dad race on tv is wearing a 1961 home shirt.

In real life "his dad" was born in Sutton. Went to Bishop Vesey. Was purportedly a Villa  fan.

I thought Christian Bale, in that film, gave the best portrayal of a Brummie accent I've seen on screen from anyone not from Birmingham.

He seemed to realise that the mistake most people make is they try too hard, they make it too extreme, whereas the vast majority of people in the West Midlands have a sort of soft, slightly inflected, stretch vowelled accent.

Actors always seem to think the best way to do it is to go for Carl Chinn.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #121 on: June 16, 2023, 01:48:18 PM »
2hours 9m into Le Mans '66, lad watching his dad race on tv is wearing a 1961 home shirt.

In real life "his dad" was born in Sutton. Went to Bishop Vesey. Was purportedly a Villa  fan.

I thought Christian Bale, in that film, gave the best portrayal of a Brummie accent I've seen on screen from anyone not from Birmingham.

He seemed to realise that the mistake most people make is they try too hard, they make it too extreme, whereas the vast majority of people in the West Midlands have a sort of soft, slightly inflected, stretch vowelled accent.

Actors always seem to think the best way to do it is to go for Carl Chinn.

How do the Peaky Blinders get on? I've never seen it.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #122 on: June 16, 2023, 01:54:24 PM »
Mostly miss, or at least in the first few seasons. I didn't watch it later on.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #123 on: June 16, 2023, 02:00:45 PM »
Mostly miss, or at least in the first few seasons. I didn't watch it later on.

That's a shame, people do really seem to struggle with the accent without making it a caricature.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #124 on: June 16, 2023, 04:31:17 PM »
Mostly miss, or at least in the first few seasons. I didn't watch it later on.

That's a shame, people do really seem to struggle with the accent without making it a caricature.

Cillian Murphy was okay at the end.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #125 on: June 16, 2023, 06:31:04 PM »
Mostly miss, or at least in the first few seasons. I didn't watch it later on.

That's a shame, people do really seem to struggle with the accent without making it a caricature.

Cillian Murphy was okay at the end.

Yeah, from the bits I've seen, Murphy does okay. Not perfect, but he doesn't ham it up.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #126 on: June 16, 2023, 08:13:40 PM »
Actors always seem to think the best way to do it is to go for Carl Chinn.
How do the Peaky Blinders get on? I've never seen it.
Murphy was okay. Arthur - his brother - was definitely going for the 'full Midlander' and ended up being a bit yam-yam.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #127 on: July 19, 2023, 02:35:00 PM »
The Strain - Season 1 Episode 10.

Villa tea cosy.

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #128 on: July 19, 2023, 02:36:51 PM »
The Strain - Season 1 Episode 10.

Villa tea cosy.
Strain. How apt!

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Cultural references of Aston Villa
« Reply #129 on: July 20, 2023, 08:33:12 AM »
Actors always seem to think the best way to do it is to go for Carl Chinn.
How do the Peaky Blinders get on? I've never seen it.
Murphy was okay. Arthur - his brother - was definitely going for the 'full Midlander' and ended up being a bit yam-yam.

I thought the bloke playing Arthur did an ok job tbh and Cillian Murphy did well as it went on. They didn’t make the mistake of going semi Black Country which is what so many non brummies trying to do the accent do. Brummie is deeper and quicker than the Black Country accent. Far less draaaawwwn ooout like we’ve had a lonotomy, than we see in most TV/film

 


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