tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post8487910554222907282..comments2024-01-18T23:11:43.921-05:00Comments on 19 Thoughts: Searching for the Elusive New England AccentByronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18236810459872882912noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-35101080414024975132014-02-25T20:36:01.243-05:002014-02-25T20:36:01.243-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SamIAm1955https://www.blogger.com/profile/12236866163937531919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-21717878825430591922014-02-25T20:35:41.069-05:002014-02-25T20:35:41.069-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SamIAm1955https://www.blogger.com/profile/12236866163937531919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-39515972427229057102014-02-25T20:35:07.899-05:002014-02-25T20:35:07.899-05:00Hollywood botched it again. Captain Phillips is a...Hollywood botched it again. Captain Phillips is a fantastic movie, but as soon as I heard Tom Hanks do what was supposed to be an accent of someone from Underhill, VT, I cringed. First of all, Underhill, outside of Burlington, is in the Champlain Valley of WESTERN Vermont, where the accent has no resemblance to Eastern New England. There is a distinctive accent spoken by long-time natives of the region, but someone like Captain Phillips would speak like most Vermonters, meaning essentially no accent whatsoever. Furthermore, his attempt of a generic New England accent was terrible. Hollywood will never get it.SamIAm1955https://www.blogger.com/profile/12236866163937531919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-72004505398886446912013-04-13T17:33:30.471-04:002013-04-13T17:33:30.471-04:00It was fun to see the effits made in "The Dep...It was fun to see the effits made in "The Depahted". I have to say, and this is wicked strange, but Leo DiCaprio had a much bettah and believable accent than natives Matt Damon and Donnie Wahlburg. <br />Leo has become a wicked good actah! Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-50094084658248311082010-11-23T22:56:52.167-05:002010-11-23T22:56:52.167-05:00I hear you on the Hollywood accents, absolutely no...I hear you on the Hollywood accents, absolutely nobody can get it right, and when they botch it, boy is it bad. It ruins the entire movie for me.<br /><br />Thank God for Matt and Ben in "Good Will Hunting." They are the standard bearers of Boston/New England accents.<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned if any actor needs to learn a New England/Boston accent I would definitely point them in the Good Will Hunting direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-10327321580021709332009-07-24T15:04:01.680-04:002009-07-24T15:04:01.680-04:00I was born and raised in Connecticut,Lived there a...I was born and raised in Connecticut,Lived there all my life until moving to Alaska 6 years ago.I love a New England Accent.When I run into someone from back home,I love trying to guess exactly where they're from based on the version of the accent.<br />It would be nice to use some actors from New England in movies.Especially if the story takes place there! I think it sounds more intelligent than some<br />other accents.Eastern Ct is a combination of Rhode Island Massachusetts,Long Island and Maine.But..They use some words and<br />terms not used elsewhere..Its Great!LUV THE ACCENTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-30103883222065346172009-05-04T16:13:00.000-04:002009-05-04T16:13:00.000-04:00I grew up in CA (please don't call it Cali), and h...I grew up in CA (please don't call it Cali), and have acted for most of my adult life. Accents are a hobby. I collect them like some collect baseball hats--one for every place I've lived. I can do NoCal and SoCal, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Chicago, Queens, New Jersey, etc.; but even though I've lived here 14 years, I still can't do an authentic Boston area accent.<br /><br />The accent is rarely done right because it's not just one main version with slight variations. It's hundreds. Many communities in N.E. are among the oldest in the country. Accents here have been evolving and ripening for centuries. They are specific to each neighborhood, sometimes to particular blocks of houses. Guys in Southie complain about Matt Damon's accent in 'Good Will Hunting' because it was "obviously" a Cambridge accent. Natives can tell the difference between Eastie and Charlestown, Dorchester and Quincy.<br /><br />No wonder nobody gets it right.an0m0lyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00831870984237222553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495524.post-84801368651759055942009-05-03T14:15:00.000-04:002009-05-03T14:15:00.000-04:00I completely agree about Hollywood never getting t...I completely agree about Hollywood never getting the N.E. accent right. It always bothers me(a New Englander, too--have lived in Maine, Mass. and RI), so you are not the only one.<br /> I remember Tom Hanks's strange supposed New England accent in "Catch Me If You Can"--like he wanted to make it a Southern version or something. I haven't bothered to watch "Brotherhod", though..Gal Fridayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00643821953484820115noreply@blogger.com