A Twist of Things to Come

There is no such thing as a Southern Accent. He does a reasonable Alabama-ish sort of thing, but I think he's supposed to be from Texas in this movie. That's part of the problem, this idea that there is a Southern accent. I worked for the Federal government in North east Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, and I could sometimes pinpoint the county a person lived in by their accent.

Ewan's "Southern accent" is a fair approximation of what most people think southerners sound like. But if he tried to pass himself off as Southern with that accent, people would assume they were being mocked and beat the crap out of him. Well, they would assume they were being mocked, and I hope they'd beat the crap out of him, 'cause I'm kinky like that.

But, yeah. It will do, but it is nowhere as believable as any accent, say, Cate Blanchet or Gary Oldman has ever done.