[HPFGU-Movie] OT, Troy. Was: American accents.

[Taryn Kimel]

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From: Pernille 
To: HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:29 AM
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] OT, Troy. Was: American accents.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
<valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:

> And from what I hear, most people in the Troy
> audience were too busy staring at Brad's glistening bod to care    
> either way about his accent! Now, to me he just looks too darn 21st 
> century to play a period piece. 

Pernille:
That's what I think as well. I wasn't talking about his accent. I 
just don't think he was the right actor for that part. I just kept 
thinking Brad Pitt instead of Achilles. 

Taryn:
Ditto on that. There are just some American actors that are too entirely American to do foreign character, IMO. Robert Redford (who I like quite a bit more than Brad Pitt any day of the week) is one of those in my mind that's just SO entirely American that I could never see him play someone outside of America. Brad Pitt is another person who just screams out modern-day American to me. There was no way that movie could convince me he was Greek.

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