tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post2969363390327320287..comments2024-02-17T04:06:00.805-05:00Comments on Just Not Said: Heroes and villainsJohn Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-1663821077443866172011-02-14T07:47:59.023-05:002011-02-14T07:47:59.023-05:00PS -- One of the most pathetic things about Hollyw...PS -- One of the most pathetic things about Hollywood movies is the way they telegraph their good guys and bad guys. A Brooklyn accent automatically means someone is good, and a clipped upper class British accent means someone is evil. If any group other than the ruling clique in Hollywood did this they'd be accused of ethnocentrism.John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-72200159267411010472011-02-14T07:42:20.300-05:002011-02-14T07:42:20.300-05:00G --
I've long noticed how Hollywood likes to ...G --<br />I've long noticed how Hollywood likes to give its villains upper class British accents. But I hadn't realized this movie had been made at Pinewood. And I had forgotten all about the death star officer guys having British accents (or did that come in the later movies?) I never saw any of them after the second in the series. <br /><br />Which brings me to the main point of my comment, which is that you are really betraying your inner nerd by demonstrating such detailed knowledge about the series.John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-17753344990513076442011-02-14T06:30:13.417-05:002011-02-14T06:30:13.417-05:00PS It's not only me. :)
http://uncyclopedia.wi...PS It's not only me. :)<br />http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Why%3F:Do_all_the_evil_people_in_Star_Wars_have_a_British_accent%3F<br />GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-1269119245054888992011-02-14T06:10:38.659-05:002011-02-14T06:10:38.659-05:00All the death star officer guys were Brits - the t...All the death star officer guys were Brits - the troopers didn't talk much. The rebs in contrast were yanks. Of course we learned later on that the clones were all made from a Maori/Kiwi bounty hunter - but certainly not from a yank. I suppose that apart from Hollywood enjoying casting Brits as bad guys (even when they are playing eurotrash terrorists like Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons in the Die Hard series), a movie made at Pinewood is inevitably bound to have lots of Brit actors and extras. But apart from Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon Jinn and C3P0, Brit good guys were pretty thin on he ground in the SW series. And of course the uber evil emperor was a Brit, as were most of his Sith sidekicks, including Dooku (Christopher Lee) and the excellently gymnastic Darth Maul.<br /><br />BTW, they even do it in the cartoons - think Scar in Lion King (Jeremy I again) or Shere Khan in Jungle Book (George Sanders). It's a wonder poor little British kids haven't been given an evil complex by Walt and his animators.<br /><br />GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-14656401576547542192011-02-14T05:59:10.363-05:002011-02-14T05:59:10.363-05:00G --
Where did you get that the Imperial Storm Tro...G --<br />Where did you get that the Imperial Storm Troopers were all Brits? The only British accent I recall was from C 3-pio(sp?).John Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729625146043379286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5794535954827182754.post-29820599157011154672011-02-14T02:47:02.381-05:002011-02-14T02:47:02.381-05:00Nah, the storm troopers in Star Wars were all Brit...Nah, the storm troopers in Star Wars were all Brits. Johnny's still one of the good guys. ;)<br />GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com