Accents and input

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, TACtalk at a... wrote:
> Previously I wrote, re the Masons' accents
> 
> >> How interesting. They both spoke with a Northern English accent,
> >and Mrs M
> >> had that 'upwardly mobile' pretentiousness that I mentioned 
earlier.
> > SNIP
JenD (ME) replies:
You know, I couldn't place exactly where Mrs. Mason came from and 
it's good to know how much Yorkshire accents sound like an old money 
Southerner!! I am a Southerner and she sounded a lot like a DAR 
matron to me!! But something was amiss and I can take your word for 
it as well as Richard's. 

Nicholas wrote in regards to Tom's Lahndon accent:
> I'm afraid it was just Tom F unable to keep up his upper-crust 
accent. The
> surprising thing is that he was allowed to get away with it. There 
must
> have been dialogue coaches on the set?
> 
> Regards,
> Nicholas

Me again:
I find it terribly fishy, the lack of continuity in regards to so 
much on screen. As if it didn't matter. As if no one would notice. I 
have this theory, that Chris held a meeting for the actors and asked 
for their input on how to make this movie more "edgy," more dark and 
fierce and then he took suggestions. Of course Draco is more menacing 
brandishing about that tough-guy talk ("At's rieght Potter!!" not to 
mention all the little incidences of thievery) and of course Jason 
Issacs, bless his heart, devoted as he is to the books, felt it added 
so much to the film to make Lucius a great deal more malevolent than 
necessary. Everyone seems to have had a fair amount of input.
JenD