Comments on: Robin Hood: Dialect Thief http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/07/robin-hood-dialect-thief/ It's all about me and my pretty hair! Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: susie http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/07/robin-hood-dialect-thief/#comment-95 susie Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/07/robin-hood-dialect-thief/#comment-95 That movie is one of my guilty pleasures. Mostly because of Alan Rickman. I looooooooove him! But Costner's accent (and Slater's too) always bothers the hell out of me, as well. That movie is one of my guilty pleasures. Mostly because of Alan Rickman. I looooooooove him!

But Costner’s accent (and Slater’s too) always bothers the hell out of me, as well.

]]> By: neil http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/07/robin-hood-dialect-thief/#comment-96 neil Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2004/07/robin-hood-dialect-thief/#comment-96 I almost cringe to say that I like the movie too. I think it's because it's not often that movies are shot on location at places where I went running when I was growing up. And of course it was Alan Rickman, I went through a real phase of thinking he was great - I certainly thought he was a show-stealer in Robin Hood, but anyway. As an Englishman with the ability to tell if someone's accent is from the next village, never mind a voice-coached American, I never expected a film like that to get the accents correct - nor the etymology of the words used. No, the thing that got me was the geographical switching - he arrives back in England and kisses the sand at the white cliffs on the south coast, by mid-afternoon he's walking along Hadrian's wall on the border to Scotland. It's a smallish country, but it's not *that* small.... I almost cringe to say that I like the movie too. I think it’s because it’s not often that movies are shot on location at places where I went running when I was growing up. And of course it was Alan Rickman, I went through a real phase of thinking he was great - I certainly thought he was a show-stealer in Robin Hood, but anyway. As an Englishman with the ability to tell if someone’s accent is from the next village, never mind a voice-coached American, I never expected a film like that to get the accents correct - nor the etymology of the words used. No, the thing that got me was the geographical switching - he arrives back in England and kisses the sand at the white cliffs on the south coast, by mid-afternoon he’s walking along Hadrian’s wall on the border to Scotland. It’s a smallish country, but it’s not *that* small….

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