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Casual Notice · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject: Tin Tin

So I was watching ads for the new CGI/Motion capture film, Tin Tin, and I couldn't help but wonder, why do all the characters froma French comic speak with a British accent?

EDIT: My apologies, Belgian comic.
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vulpeslibertas · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:53 pm Post subject:

Maybe they though Americans would hear British and think "Oooh, they must be from that Europe place."
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Bernardery · Joined: 20 Nov 2011 Posts: 15

vulpeslibertas wrote:

Maybe they though Americans would hear British and think "Oooh, they must be from that Europe place."

That approach is ridiculously common.

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vulpeslibertas · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 2:54 am Post subject:

Wait! No! You mean that Captain Picard isn't really French> They lied to me!
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lionbeast · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 72 Location: luxembourg

I saw it in french and all i can say is that tintin has a french accent and not an belgian accent but that's probably for the bether...it would sound weird with an belgian accent.

vulpeslibertas · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 5:35 am Post subject:

Apparently spambots haven't learned to speak French yet.
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Harrington AW · Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 843

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So I was watching ads for the new CGI/Motion capture film, Tin Tin, and I couldn't help but wonder, why do all the characters froma French comic speak with a British accent?

EDIT: My apologies, Belgian comic.

Most likely because when Tintin was originally translated into English, the translators changed some of the locations from Belgian to British (setting Marlinspike Hall in Marlinshire, England for example). Since that's the version that most English-speaking Tintin fans have read, I suppose it seemed logical to go with British accents for the movie.

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Max Vaehling · Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 384 Location: Bremen, Germany

Maybe it just sounds more old-fashioned that way. It's set in the Forties, after all.

But most likely they just wanted it to sound European. Having everybody talk in a fake French accent doesn't make any sense because a) they're talking French to each other and don't perceive each other as having accents, and b) that's not the kind of comedy they went for.

There's a German TV show based on Polish Stanilaw Lem's Star Diaries. Almost everybody in that show, no matter which planet they come from or if they're even life forms to begin with, talks with a heavy fake Polish accent. Especially protagonist Ijon Tichy himself. It's funny in a goofy way, but if you want the audience to root for your characters, it's not the way to go. (Needless to say, the effect is very different from Lem's stories'.)
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ewomack · Grand prize winner! Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 337

France doesn't really seem to exist in America (at least for the past 10 years or so) so using French accents would have made people wonder about that strange land we once all knew...
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Clint Wolf · Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 298

vulpeslibertas wrote:

Maybe they though Americans would hear British and think "Oooh, they must be from that Europe place."

To be fair, didn't the BBC and various Shakespeare movie adaptations start this trend? I doubt that Ancient Romans sounded British, either.
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Casual Notice · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:30 pm Post subject:

Wait, are you saying that Marc Antony didn't address the public in a clipped, Royal Shakespeare Society accent? Next you'll tell me the Bard himself didn't sound like a BBC regular, but spoke in an accent more closely related to that found in the Northern Yorkshire Dales...
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