Accents matter

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "ereshkigal_doom" 
<nonnymouse_X at h...> wrote:
>Lotsa snips:
> 
> I doubt if I would notice the errors in Rickman's US accent, but 
> Americans certainly seem to! Imagine a whole movie of actors whose 
> accents are just off enough to be distracting. It would not affect 
the > American audience, because the differences would be subtle, 
but UK  audiences would not take the movie seriously.
I interject:
When you are familiar with an actor and you know they are doing an 
accent, you listen very carefully. Meryl Streep, whom I adore, had 
quite a reputation for being able to carry off various accents. I 
remember seeing her a looong time ago in a film called "Plenty" and 
her only so-so British accent really distracted me, an American. I 
don't know if you were on the list when the second HP film came out 
but people were really caught up in how badly the accents matched 
some of the characters. All the sudden Draco (supposedly from one of 
the better wizards families) sounded as if he were from the East End.
JenD