OT, Troy. Was: American accents.

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Taryn wrote:
>> 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. <<

Rebecca:
I wouldn't know about Troy because I didn't see it (why did they take 
a story steeped in mythology and remove the mythology from it? ... at 
least it did badly so they won't be tempted to do the same thing to 
The Odyssey, which is one of my favorite stories), BUT Brad Pitt did 
a rather good non-American accent in Snatch.

AND...to bring this back on topic, sort of, on the subject of 
accents, part of my excitement over seeing PoA was getting to hear 
Gary Oldman's actual accent. He does such a *dead-on* American accent 
in some movies, I forget he's British sometimes.