[HPFGU-Movie] Newsround interview, was Re: Dan's Dubbing Definitive Denouement

[John Walton]

nlpnt at yahoo.com wrote:

> Also, I was looking at the old accent thread (on OTC I think); there
> were comments that Dan's accent was "too posh", but to my Yank ears,
> it seems that he played Harry with a "posher" accent than he uses in
> real life; any Brits have an opinion? Or are his in/out of character
> accents identical and streaming audio slurred his voice a bit?

IMO (as someone considered "posh" by his flatmates), Dan's accent is
perfect. Harry does live in Surrey with the ultra-pretentious Dursleys --
they will sound posher-than-posh simply because the accent is a mark of the
class to which they aspire. Harry doesn't really have a peer group to shift
his accent to "Young South-Eastern" (which is what Ron sounds like,
sometimes but not always replacing "t" with "glottal stop", as in "She
really needs to sor' ou' her priorities").

Then again, I maintain that Dan is just perfect for Harry, but there we go
:)

--John

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