Why do all movies that take place in the olden days have full casts with english accents, no matter

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

where they take place? I'm watching The Dracula untold movie from last year and they have Vlad The impaler and his family...transylvania / romanian with like...london accents........why...? this happens a lot...are filmmakers this lazy that all persons (unless they're persian...then they sound gay) before 1600 just sound british? like every fairy tale type movie too...

 

[StraxStrax]

Just the fact they are speaking english gives them the freedom to do whatever, its not like english was the main language there and they are just fukking up on the accents front

 

[The Watcher]

 

[BXKingPin82]

Yo no bullshyt
I was just sayin this the other day to my cousin

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Just the fact they are speaking english gives them the freedom to do whatever, its not like english was the main language there and they are just fukking up on the accents front

but its shockingly unrealistic to have vlad the impaler speaking like he's from manchester lol

 

[StraxStrax]

but its shockingly unrealistic to have vlad the impaler speaking like he's from manchester lol

Its equally unrealistic like if sounded like was from Iowa

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Its equally unrealistic like if sounded like was from Iowa

its much less phony if he was speaking english with a romanian accent as would be expected in even a 5th grade play

 

[StraxStrax]

its much less phony if he was speaking romanian

fixed

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

where they take place? I'm watching The Dracula untold movie from last year and they have Vlad The impaler and his family...transylvania / romanian with like...london accents........why...? this happens a lot...are filmmakers this lazy that all persons (unless they're persian...then they sound gay) before 1600 just sound british? like every fairy tale type movie too...

THE BARD WROTE A LOT OF PLAYS ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE, SO WHEN HOLLYWOOD STARTED MAKING MOVIES ABOUT THAT PERIOD, THEY HIRED SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS TO PLAY THE MAIN ROLES, BROTHER! THIS CAUSED THE AUDIENCE AND THE FILM INDUSTRY TO ASSOCIATE ENGLISH ACCENTS WITH THE ANCIENT WORLD, DUDE!

 

[Lord Scion]

The thing that kills me though, is the English accent that we all hear ain't even old...shyt was invented in the 18-19th century.

The American accent is pretty much the original English accent, historians say Shakespeare sounds authentic when read with an American accent rather than an English one.

 

[NZA]

The thing that kills me though, is the English accent that we all hear ain't even old...shyt was invented in the 18-19th century.

The American accent is pretty much the original English accent, historians say Shakespeare sounds authentic when read with an American accent rather than an English one.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

The thing that kills me though, is the English accent that we all hear ain't even old...shyt was invented in the 18-19th century.

The American accent is pretty much the original English accent, historians say Shakespeare sounds authentic when read with an American accent rather than an English one.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

The thing that kills me though, is the English accent that we all hear ain't even old...shyt was invented in the 18-19th century.

The American accent is pretty much the original English accent, historians say Shakespeare sounds authentic when read with an American accent rather than an English one.

That doesn't make sense because america has like 25 accents....hell Texas has 2-3 alone, and there is a huge difference between every state in SEC country

 

[Lord Scion]

That doesn't make sense because america has like 25 accents....hell Texas has 2-3 alone, and there is a huge difference between every state in SEC country

I got to re-read the shyt, but yea... I'm trying to remember if they said it was the general "southern accent" or the dialect in the Northeast that's closest to OG English.