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From 1930s to 1960s most actors in Hollywood are white and producers kinda prefers Europeans over White Americans and White Canadians. A cast combination of Europeans and Americans and will have different accents. So to make it more uniform... Hollywood movie actors are forced to learn Transatlantic accent. They said this accent is also easier to understand to both Americans and British so it became a standard. Another reason why its used is that this fake accent works well recorded. The limited technologies back then struggles to record more natural accents.
The transatlantic accent sounded exotic and sexy but no one talks like that in real life so it became obsolete in the 1970s.
No one talks like this in real life. Around 1970s movie producers started preferring American actors over Europeans so Most Hollywood movies from then on uses Californian accent the most. Now we can hear different accents in the US being portrayed and also foreign accents too because Hollywood becomes more diverse.
From 1930s to 1960s most actors in Hollywood are white and producers kinda prefers Europeans over White Americans and White Canadians. A cast combination of Europeans and Americans and will have different accents. So to make it more uniform... Hollywood movie actors are forced to learn [b]Transatlantic accent.[/b] They said this accent is also easier to understand to both Americans and British so it became a standard. Another reason why its used is that this fake accent works well recorded. The limited technologies back then struggles to record more natural accents.
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The transatlantic accent sounded exotic and sexy but no one talks like that in real life so it became obsolete in the 1970s.
No one talks like this in real life. Around 1970s movie producers started preferring American actors over Europeans so Most Hollywood movies from then on uses Californian accent the most. Now we can hear different accents in the US being portrayed and also foreign accents too because Hollywood becomes more diverse.
Those old black and white movies were just so weird and the voices of the British actors were rather posh. The majority of English people do not speak that way because many of us have regional accents. It still makes me cringe when I am watching an American programme featuring an English character. It makes us sound so "jolly hockey sticks". (You might want to look that one up )
Those old black and white movies were just so weird and the voices of the British actors were rather posh. The majority of English people do not speak that way because many of us have regional accents. It still makes me cringe when I am watching an American programme featuring an English character. It makes us sound so "jolly hockey sticks". (You might want to look that one up :lol: )
I think that is the intention these artificially posh accents are created to make the celebrities sound bigger and superior than the movie watchers who have real accents.
I think that is the intention these artificially posh accents are created to make the celebrities sound bigger and superior than the movie watchers who have real accents.
Netherrealmer wrote:I think that is the intention these artificially posh accents are created to make the celebrities sound bigger and superior than the movie watchers who have real accents.
I would agree there. That I noticed with old Bollywood movies too. Not with the accent but the dialogues and dialogue delivery were such that would make them look like some superior creatures. They were projected as heroes, someone who was above the local crowd.
[quote="Netherrealmer"]I think that is the intention these artificially posh accents are created to make the celebrities sound bigger and superior than the movie watchers who have real accents.[/quote] I would agree there. That I noticed with old Bollywood movies too. Not with the accent but the dialogues and dialogue delivery were such that would make them look like some superior creatures. They were projected as heroes, someone who was above the local crowd. :)
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