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11/05/09
I wish people in my fantasy football league would go for that. I'll take Miles Austin for the rights to my stick figure avatar, Nedly. #epicmickey
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[corporate.disney.go.com] #epicmickey
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[corporate.disney.go.com] #epicmickey
11/04/09
They got a veteran sportscaster who is a household name in America....so a super obscure Disney character from the 20s can appear in a Wii game.
And I whole heartedly agree with the NYT when they say that "Mickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people." At least in the states....over here..there is no easier way to get people to buy your cheap plastic crap then to slap Mickey onto it. #epicmickey
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[sports.espn.go.com]
"Oswald is definitely worth more than a fourth-round draft choice," Michaels said, referring to what the Kansas City Chiefs gave the New York Jets as compensation for releasing coach Herm Edwards from his contract. "I'm going to be a trivia answer someday." #epicmickey
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11/02/09
To be honest, I think it's done because a British accent sounds foreign to Americans and if they went too full on with genuine Iranian accents they'd just sound vaguely, comical like an Omid Djalili stand-up routine, and then people would complain they can't understand the dialogue.
Not saying I agree with that by the way; I'm just saying that's why I think they use British accents to denote "foreign" in America. #princeofpersia
11/02/09
The British accents strike me as weird too, but movies like 300 and Troy used British accents too. It's probably just a fad with movies set in "ancient times" using British accents, and in 20 years we'll all look back at it and think about how weird it is. #princeofpersia
11/02/09
While this is quite obviously a fantasy world, there have been puppet governments of the British Empire in the middle east for hundreds of years. It might not explain why British accents get used all the time (ie 300), but in some cases, especially amongst the 'Elite' (esp. in India), royalty would try to behave and speak as English as possible. #princeofpersia
11/02/09
Also, Americans (and the actors in American cinema) speak english, so scripts in whatever the native tongue of the movie's location happens to be are out of the question. How many people would go to see this if it was in Farsi with english subtitles?
...well I would, but they will make much more money with cheesy faux-Brit accents. #princeofpersia
11/03/09
And yes, when many people from the middle east learn English they learn it from.. English people. England's only a few thousand miles closer. Of course it's a little different now with Americans in Iraq, but a lot of Iraqis who speak english speak with more of a british accent. #princeofpersia
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I really hope that changes, or that I heard it wrong. #princeofpersia
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And everyone brought their English accents along for the ride. #princeofpersia
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