Procrastination

[angearia]

I should be writing right now, but I'm not.  That's right.  I'm watching True Blood instead.  Sookuh, you best listen to me with my old-fashioned Southehn acksent, mmhmm.

(yes writing in an obvious vernacular is annoying, but it's funny!  okay, funny for me.)

Comments

[musicbitch]

I've been watching the show since the beginning, and I still can't get over how seriously bad the accents are. They drive me crazy, and Bill is British in real life, so it's even worse. If they only would have let him keep his regular accent, he might have been sexier to me...lol!

[menomegirl]

Actually, his accent isn't as bad as Anna's.

[musicbitch]

Oh, don't even get me started on hers...lol! It's so dreadful, I just find the way he says her name to be hilarious.

[menomegirl]

Oh my God, it SO is!!!! The first time I heard it, I was all, "That sounds like how you call a pig or a dog or something. Here, Sookie, Sookie, Sookie."

[musicbitch]

LOL, exactly;)

[menomegirl]

Oh and if you watch the first disc of the DVD with the commentary on, you'll hear the producer (or director, whatever) say that he told Anna that whenever Bill says Sookie's name, she feels it in her vagina.

[penny_lane_42]

The way he says her name makes me dissolve into giggles every. time. It's so ridiculous! Though it kind of sounds like he's saying "Sucky," which I like to think is a major Freudian slip. Vampires only have one thing on their minds.

But yes. Whoever thought casting Anna Paquin as Southern deserves to be shot. And since I actually naturally have a Southern accent, it's my call, right?

[musicbitch]

Ha, that's a very good point, and yep, you're allowed. I know a lot of Southerners were upset by how they sounded on the show. I'm not one, but I can do a better fake accent than that.

[penny_lane_42]

Well, there are lots of levels to it, really. Because nearly everyone faking a Southern accent sounds horrible at it, mostly because people who are from the northern states tend to talk through their noses. If you really want to sound southern you have to actually relearn to talk through your chest or stomach, and most actors don't take the trouble to do that.

But what makes it worse is that people assume there's just one kind of Southern accent when actually accents vary wildly from state to state--or even within states; East TN accents sound completely different from West TN ones, for instance--and different economic and educational statuses.

I imagine Brits get just as annoyed--most American actors act like there's only one British accent, when actually there are probably far more than there are American ones and with every word you're broadcasting where you're from, how much money your family had, and what kind of school you went to.

I've thought about this a lot, can you tell? Sorry for rambling like that.

[musicbitch]

LOL, no problem, it's all very true, though.

[angearia]

Bill's doesn't bother me as much because accents change so much over the course of even one hundred years. Do you watch old movies at all? It's amazing how people talk differently even in comparison to the fifties and now.

So with Bill I can suspend disbelief a bit. But Sookie lol! Oi vey.

[musicbitch]

LOL, oh yeah, he's definitely not as bad as her. I just crack up whenever he says her name, but I've heard the real guy speak and guh, his voice is so sexy. I'm just a sucker for a British accent, I wish he could have kept it on the show.

[menomegirl]

with Bill I can suspend disbelief a bit

Yes, exactly. The way he speaks reminds me of Vivian Leigh's accent as Scarlett in the movie Gone With The Wind.