I just started watching The Last of the Mohicans

mcflynnthm:

angiepants:

Why does everyone have an American accent? It’s 1757 in colonized America, every white person in this movie should have a British accent. What the shit.

I saw this recently:

http://www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents

i like it the most when an english-language movie is set in any european non-english-speaking county and all the accents are british

(via mcflynn)

3 weeks ago  Notes (15)
  1. dinolaurous reblogged this from mildlyalex and added:
    Marie… well, if you think about it, (and yes i do agree...people are stupid
  2. doyourwardance reblogged this from ellenbee and added:
    I HAVE FOUND MY PEOPLE. One of my biggest (probably biggest?) movie pet peeve.
  3. mcflynn reblogged this from ellenbee and added:
    My favorite is when any ancient peoples— especially classical Greeks and Imperial Romans— all have British accents.
  4. angiepants reblogged this from ellenbee and added:
    LMAO YES THIS IS ALSO MY FAVORITE
  5. ellenbee reblogged this from mcflynn and added:
    i like it the most when an english-language movie is set in any european non-english-speaking county and all the accents...
  6. twilight-perfection reblogged this from mildlyalex and added:
    Marie… I understand what you mean but it’s not the...though. It’s tolerable though....
  7. angiepants reblogged this from mcflynn and added:
    Well hot dang, I learned a thing tonight. Thanks Flynn and The Internet! The movie still sucks though because the...
  8. mcflynn reblogged this from angiepants and added:
    recently: //www.nicholasjohnpatrick.com/post/767354896/did-americans-in-1776-have-british-accents
  9. mildlyalex reblogged this from twilight-perfection and added:
    That may be true, but it was just such a ridiculous movie and I hated it and wahhhh. The French Revolution was the theme...
  10. bindingaffinity reblogged this from mildlyalex and added:
    Actually what was a British accent in 1757 was… much closer to an American accent in many ways than to a modern-day...
  11. mildlyalex reblogged this from angiepants and added:
    I haven’t seen...movie, but I had a similar WTF reaction to Marie Antoinette with Kirsten...
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