Prince of Persia

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Apparently Jake Gylenhall spent a long time perfecting an english accent for the role, i myself am confused by this, but i spos b movie shiz needs a handle and maybe thats what it is. don;t get me wrong i like video games and i think the films of them are usually jokes but i think that the accent thing is weird, weird like the farrel Alexander the great film where everyone had to have an irish accent as a gimmick for the film

Any other films where accents have assumed strange prominence?

He definitely didn't perfect it. I saw the trailer last time I went to the movies and his accent changed in every clip. He sounds weird.

Why did he perfect an English accent for Prince of Persia?

I don't remember the voices in the game, but if they were British in nature, and that carried over to the movie, that's just weird.

It's strange that any period acting, in any place in the world, is often attached to a modern British accent. Is it considered the most properly annunciated speech?

It is strange, I thought the same thing when I saw the trailer. But he didn't sound very English and I don't know what a Persian accent sounds like so at first I thought maybe that's what he was going for. His accent just sounds strange.

What's not strange is how much your avatar just made me smile.

I was wondering the same thing. I watched the trailer for the movie, and it just doesn't feel right to have British-sounding people running around in the Middle East during a seemingly ancient time period.

This is sorta-kinda off-topic, but when I saw that it's being made by the same people who did Pirates of the Caribbean, I wondered why Johnny Depp didn't sign on. I wish that he had, because I would have really liked to see that. Maybe they thought he's too "pretty" to play a videogame hero? Or maybe the role just didn't interest him? idk. But I am happy to see that Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina are in the movie. Kingsley was the one and only thing I liked about the Bloodrayne movie, and Molina was great in Chocolat.

On another note, I think it's pretty weird that Alanis Morrisette is doing the theme song for the movie.

Aww man. Where's Geordie?