Re: Aaarrgh...In Remembrance of September 19
Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:46 am
Wow James, that one makes the Skua look swoopy!
Re: Aaarrgh...In Remembrance of September 19
Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:16 am
JDK wrote:JohnB wrote:Don't forget the Buccaneer....pirates are always classier with an English accent.
Ask Errol Flynn.
Who'd reply in his Tasmanian one.
Yes, James, we know he's from your adopted homeland...but I don't think he ever plaved a Tasmanian.
And he certainly ever used anything close to an Aussie accent in his films.
Just saw a short part of one of his films the other day...playing the Duke of Essex or somesuch against Bette Davis.
Re: Aaarrgh...In Remembrance of September 19
Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:29 pm
Not 'adopted', John, born here, lived overseas, only ever an Australian citizen.
As to Flynn's accent, you might be surprised. I was, when listening to a 1940 newsreel group of 10 Squadron RAAF Sunderland crew at how 'British' they sounded; very different to our expectation. No idea what a 1930s Tasmanian accent might be like.
For instance here's Jacqueline Cochran talking in about 1942 - very different to a modern American accent, Florida or elsewhere.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/girl- ... rom-u-s-a/
Neat little film, by the way.
Despite combing film records in detail, I can't find Flynn playing a Tasmanian, dammit.
Um, can we stop trying to sound piratical now?
As to Flynn's accent, you might be surprised. I was, when listening to a 1940 newsreel group of 10 Squadron RAAF Sunderland crew at how 'British' they sounded; very different to our expectation. No idea what a 1930s Tasmanian accent might be like.
For instance here's Jacqueline Cochran talking in about 1942 - very different to a modern American accent, Florida or elsewhere.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/girl- ... rom-u-s-a/
Neat little film, by the way.
Despite combing film records in detail, I can't find Flynn playing a Tasmanian, dammit.
Um, can we stop trying to sound piratical now?