Re:How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
by stonogo on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:36AM
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Ah, yes, the notable villain Obi Wan Kenobi.
Re:How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
by amyjess on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:05AM
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It makes a bit more sense when you realize that the Empire saw themselves as the continuation of the Republic (the Senate wasn't abolished until partway through A New Hope, for example), and Obi-Wan was very much a part of the Republic's leadership, being a sitting member of the Jedi Council and all.
So it's not so much a "villain accent" as it is a "Republic leadership accent", where the Empire is just a corrupted Republic.
Re:How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
by arethuza on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:52AM
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Played by Guinness who was half Scottish and educated in Edinburgh and Mcregor who seems completely Scottish.
Do we Scots get an exemption from the "evil Brit" trope - (OK apart from Begby or Fred the Shred, but there aren't really people like that in Scotland, honest).
;-)
Re:How a Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood by Storm
by BellsOnSunday on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @09:54AM
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It doesn't matter where Alec Guinness was born, he sounded about as Scottish as the Queen. Ewan McGregor's English accent OTOH sounds fake.
A) The Imperial Navy is a euphimism for the British Navy / Empire.
B) It was filmed in the UK with almost all UK actors.
The new Star Wars - none of the accents are posh really.
Just English accents, again actors, filming etc. - although - I think there was some attempt by JJ to keep it UK-ish in that manner, though I'm not sure.