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It's not even the best film he ever made.

 

That was JFK. True story an'all.

 

Thirteen Days is superb too. Another true story, put perhaps not as factually accurate as JFK.

 

And A Perfect World is very Good.

 

And Dances With Wolves.

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It's not even the best film he ever made.

 

That was JFK. True story an'all.

:blink: I liked JFK but preferred 'The Untouchables'.

 

 

Now Sean Connery's American accent in that movie........

 

:D

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It's not even the best film he ever made.

 

That was JFK. True story an'all.

:blink: I liked JFK but preferred 'The Untouchables'.

 

 

Now Sean Connery's American accent in that movie........

 

:D

He's supposed to be Irish I think, either way it's a Scottish accent :razz:

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There's no difference tbf.

 

Like his 'Russian' accent in The Hunt For The Red Oktober.

 

 

"auch aye the nooooo comrade !"

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Alexander was a complete abortion of a movie. Oliver Stone should personally apologise to everyone who ever saw it. To make the decision "HHMMMM My leading man has an Irish accent. If he speaks like that and everyone else speaks normal that would look stupid. I have an idea. Right everyone you all have to affect some form of proto Irish accent. that will make the film much better" Twat.

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there's quite a bit of evidence to show that a yankee accent is quite close to some 17th Century English accents - its us that have changed - not them

 

altho geordie has been the same for at least 250 years

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I was going to say, how did the American accent evolve and mutate so dramatically anyway? They've only existed for 60 years or something

there's quite a bit of evidence to show that a yankee accent is quite close to some 17th Century English accents - its us that have changed - not them

 

altho geordie has been the same for at least 250 years

Strange but true. I remember whilst studying American classic literature it was mentioned that the american accent and phonetic pronunciations were actually closer to old english than modern English english.

Allegedly it's the result of mass migration of English religious minority communities (which explains a lot more about the fuckers) and their insular ways.

Now the australian accent is the result of all us english/irish/scottish convicts being smacked in the face to much by the english gentry when we first arrived and the noo zeelenders learning to not pronounce U in fear of their girlfriends getting wind of whats about to happen and scampering off further up the paddock.

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