Oh, my friends...

[asato_muraki]

I'm not really sure how I feel about this, but it was too squirm-inducing not to share:

On the one hand, Ewan McGregor is congenitally adorable. On the other, well, Jim Carrey. I mean, I really enjoy some of his movies. The Truman Show was awesome and Bruce Almighty was a lot of fun. But I just can't see where they are going with this. Goofball RomCom? Another movie in the "Gay is Funny" genre? I just can't tell.

Maybe I'm just pissed off that Jim FREAKING Carrey gets to snog Ewan McGregor.

I fear to look, yet I cannot turn away.

Comments

[deadcat-vagrant.livejournal.com]

*twitches* Ewan is passable, but it's the passable of "Hollywood-ease" than "this ithe accent from the particular region I'm from and I made sure of it".

The town my family is from has at least five different distinct accents in it alone. Go from town to town in that area of Kentucky and you will hear all KINDS of different accents, based off of family history, particular location, family lineage, occupation, ect. If they ever tried to do pinpoint accents in that area it would break people. :)

[asatomuraki.livejournal.com]

Yet, there are people who do just that. It fascinates me, really. A lot of entertainment is produced in New York and California, so they get those accents right. Even in New York where ethnicity and so forth affect the accents a great deal. We might refer to a New york accent, but there are really several.

[archaeologist-d.livejournal.com]

Well, it may be that you are used to the accents so you hear the subtleties (can't speel worth a darn tonight). As a Northern, I'd likely just hear the overall accent.

It's like My Fair Lady. Henry Higgens could hear the difference. I just hear an English accent. I can recognize cockney because it's so very distinct just like I can recognize upper Bostonian from New Jersey accents (having lived in both areas) but telling accents apart when you aren't around them a lot is hard. So I tend to lump them together into regions.

Actually, I'm curious. If you watch the Clone War cartoons on cartoon network, what is the mascot's accent (he shows up to introduce the next part - looks like a metallic doughboy)? Sounds southern to me.