I'm Irish and its clearly obvious the Sons of Anarchy Irish episodes were all shot in America. The accents were shocking, absolutely cringeworthy, I don't know what accent Jimmy O'Phelan is supposed to have but when he says "I'm taking my family hoame" I just cringe. My cockney girlfriend does a better accent than he can and she is usually taking the piss.
SOA in Ireland - unintentional comedy..
Could have only been funnier if they had got Coronation Streets Jim Mcdonald in for a few episodes
That would have been fantastic
Okay, what you just said is a big pet peeve of mine.:) I'm a 42-year-old Canadian and have lived in Canada my whole life. I have watched a lot of Canadian TV and movies featuring people from all different regions of Canada, and I have never heard any Canadian pronounce "about" as "aboot." That is actually a SCOTTISH pronunciation.
On a related topic, do New Zealanders actually say
"Fush and Chups" ?
On a related topic, do New Zealanders actually say
"Fush and Chups" ?
yes they do...I LIVED IN NZ in 2006 - they also so "aackchulley"
for the word actually
I have lived in Ontario Canada since 2008
they do say aboot...and words like arm,farm and harm sound like urmm,furrm and hurrm
The missus is canadian,so i hear it all day - with the word "eh" tacked onto sentences a lot too ;-)
Some of the excuses from BBC staff for not moving to Salford were;"there is only only specialist cheese shop" , "my boyfriend is a professional hair stylist and won't be able to get a job" and "I can't move to Salford because I'm a vegetarian."
As a Londoner and Vegetarian who travels all over the country it is genuinely harder to cater for yourself the further north you go in England. A number of times I have been offered fish as the only vegetarian option north of Watford, something that would never happen in London.
I would imagine a far higher % of UK citizens have hollidayed in the US compared to the otherway round - most US residents have no idea what the UK is like to lap up whatever their TV networks feed them.
On English friend of mine was in Holiday in America once and when questioned on his accent, said he was from England and was asked “well, your English is very good, where did you learn it?”
As a Londoner and Vegetarian who travels all over the country it is genuinely harder to cater for yourself the further north you go in England. A number of times I have been offered fish as the only vegetarian option north of Watford, something that would never happen in London.
Maybe the BBC types will have to eat at home instead of dining out on expenses every night?
There's a scene in The Day After Tomorrow where these British guys are working at some kind of remote weather station off the Scottish coast. One of them apparently is a fan of Man United and is watching a match on TV, and shouting "kick it...kick it..." when a Man U player has the ball. Clearly the scriptwriter had never even seen a football game in his life - if he had, he would have realised that nobody ever says "kick it".
That reminds me of 'Green Street' where Charlie Hunnam's character refers to 'Match Day' as 'Football Day'... and this was an English film
There's a scene in The Day After Tomorrow where these British guys are working at some kind of remote weather station off the Scottish coast. One of them apparently is a fan of Man United and is watching a match on TV, and shouting "kick it...kick it..." when a Man U player has the ball. Clearly the scriptwriter had never even seen a football game in his life - if he had, he would have realised that nobody ever says "kick it".
Did they have the soccer teams chanting "Hut! Hut! Hut!"
as well?
Ah yes! But there was an episode of Columbo where Clive Revill (the orgiinal choice for Cowley in the Professioanls and a familiar TV face) played a Clancy Brothers-eque Irish folk singer who turned out to be an IRA bomber. si nging gOD SAVE iRELAND, A genuine irish protest song now a regular at football matches. he even had a banjo. it wasn;'t that exxagerated.
I went to tha USA a few years ago with my daughter.
I have a strong Scottish accent and my daughter has an English accent.
In Boston we spoke to a lot of people who could not tell the difference in our accents.They knew we were from the UK,but thought we sounded very similar.
An interesting comparison for any US readers who have seen it (if any!) is the ER v Holby City match up.
ER featured a couple of long running UK characters on screen - Doctors Corday and Neela (not going to try to spell her surname). Both very well presented as characters - pretty much a given with the calibre of ER - though interestingly somewhat anti UK in their reasons for wanting to stay in the US and their dislike of the supposedly failing free national health service here.
Holby has for several years now reciprocated with a US doctor in our NHS hospital.
He is what I suspect is regarded as a stereotypical America - arrogant, money driven, curt but brilliant. He is a great character but I do wonder if American viewers (via BBC America?) see this as a poor depiction of a culture much as discussed in this thread.
Holby (as a continuous drama - aka a primetime soap and on all year round once a week) is not quite in the same league as ER in terms of writing, but has now run for quite a few years so is regarded as a keeper by the BBC. And the doctor retains the image of Americanism with the Stars and Stripes and baseballs in his office so we never forget where he comes from on screen.
Does anyone else remember the episode of the X-Files where Mulder, with the aid of a close-up of a map of Europe, told Scully that a ship had departed from Leeds prior to disappearing?
Must go now and watch those huge ships that navigate the river Aire...
Oh, yes, maybe its Leeds, as in Leeds Castle in Kent.
Just bought myself a Man from Uncle box set, 15 euro in GoldenDiscs for five compilation movies. One of the movies is the Karate Killers, which has guest appearances from Terry-Thomas, Jill ireland, Curd Jurgens, and Telly Savalas. Written by a Brit, ex-Carry On writer Norman Hudis, who wrote the early black-and-white ones that didn't have much sauce as Talbot Rothwell's, it has a simialr feel in places (Jill Ireland emerges from the Lord Mayor's coach in a bikini), set in London, but filmed at MGM studios with a red phonebox here and a black cab there, and a whole place swarming with bobbies at a police wedding. I enjoyed it. Funny to know that almost fifty years later, Robert Vaughn has just recently been in Coronation Street, genuine Britain.
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SOA in Ireland - unintentional comedy..
Could have only been funnier if they had got Coronation Streets Jim Mcdonald in for a few episodes
That would have been fantastic
On a related topic, do New Zealanders actually say
"Fush and Chups" ?
yes they do...I LIVED IN NZ in 2006 - they also so "aackchulley"
for the word actually
I have lived in Ontario Canada since 2008
they do say aboot...and words like arm,farm and harm sound like urmm,furrm and hurrm
The missus is canadian,so i hear it all day - with the word "eh" tacked onto sentences a lot too ;-)
What about ye,so ye are,for the craic ;-)
and don't forget his Masterchef recipe of Belfast Breakfast
Back on track with accents and watched Leverage last week
where Aldis Hodge did an awful English one
As a Londoner and Vegetarian who travels all over the country it is genuinely harder to cater for yourself the further north you go in England. A number of times I have been offered fish as the only vegetarian option north of Watford, something that would never happen in London.
On English friend of mine was in Holiday in America once and when questioned on his accent, said he was from England and was asked “well, your English is very good, where did you learn it?”
I always try and put them right on that score whenever I go to the U.S by speaking pure Dell Trotter.They seem to love it.
That reminds me of 'Green Street' where Charlie Hunnam's character refers to 'Match Day' as 'Football Day'... and this was an English film
Did they have the soccer teams chanting "Hut! Hut! Hut!"
as well?
aNYONE'S MEMORIES OF THESE SHOWS, ESPECIALLY 70S AND 80S SHOWS. i'M DOING A PROJECT ON FOREIGN TV AND CINEMA'S VIEW OF BRITAIN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw
I have a strong Scottish accent and my daughter has an English accent.
In Boston we spoke to a lot of people who could not tell the difference in our accents.They knew we were from the UK,but thought we sounded very similar.
ER featured a couple of long running UK characters on screen - Doctors Corday and Neela (not going to try to spell her surname). Both very well presented as characters - pretty much a given with the calibre of ER - though interestingly somewhat anti UK in their reasons for wanting to stay in the US and their dislike of the supposedly failing free national health service here.
Holby has for several years now reciprocated with a US doctor in our NHS hospital.
He is what I suspect is regarded as a stereotypical America - arrogant, money driven, curt but brilliant. He is a great character but I do wonder if American viewers (via BBC America?) see this as a poor depiction of a culture much as discussed in this thread.
Holby (as a continuous drama - aka a primetime soap and on all year round once a week) is not quite in the same league as ER in terms of writing, but has now run for quite a few years so is regarded as a keeper by the BBC. And the doctor retains the image of Americanism with the Stars and Stripes and baseballs in his office so we never forget where he comes from on screen.
Does anyone else remember the episode of the X-Files where Mulder, with the aid of a close-up of a map of Europe, told Scully that a ship had departed from Leeds prior to disappearing?
Must go now and watch those huge ships that navigate the river Aire...
Just bought myself a Man from Uncle box set, 15 euro in GoldenDiscs for five compilation movies. One of the movies is the Karate Killers, which has guest appearances from Terry-Thomas, Jill ireland, Curd Jurgens, and Telly Savalas. Written by a Brit, ex-Carry On writer Norman Hudis, who wrote the early black-and-white ones that didn't have much sauce as Talbot Rothwell's, it has a simialr feel in places (Jill Ireland emerges from the Lord Mayor's coach in a bikini), set in London, but filmed at MGM studios with a red phonebox here and a black cab there, and a whole place swarming with bobbies at a police wedding. I enjoyed it. Funny to know that almost fifty years later, Robert Vaughn has just recently been in Coronation Street, genuine Britain.
Looked like they'd just stuck up a tube sign and a red phone box.