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    11/03/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    Prince of the Carribean : Sand Man's Chest
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    11/03/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    I thought this was Prince of Persia, not Price of Thieves...WTFs up with the British accent? People over at Aint It Cool all seem to just swoon over Donnie Darko's faux-Brit accent, but...the character is not fucking English. I don't get it...guess it worked for "Pirates" so... #princeofpersia
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    Image of DrakeDatsun DrakeDatsun
    11/03/09

    @jon: They shouldn't be speaking english in the first place, don't forget that... #princeofpersia
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    11/03/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    Still think Naveen Andrews (Sayid form Lost) would have been the better Prince by far. Gyllenhaal is just too white and uses too much of a British accent to appear Persian. #princeofpersia
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    Image of sazzrah sazzrah
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    Isn't it funny how no one complained the Prince looked thoroughly white had a British accent in The Sands of Time game? Seems giving someone a goatee and a British accent makes them acceptably Persian in 'game world'.

    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
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    Image of TheMightyEthan TheMightyEthan
    11/02/09

    @sazzrah: Funny you should mention that. The first thing I said when the trailer started was "I wish they'd gotten a middle-eastern actor."

    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
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    ( shake cows, win a ) Milkshake! promoted this comment TheMightyEthan was starred TheMightyEthan was unstarred
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    11/02/09

    @sazzrah, TheMightyEthan:

    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
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    11/02/09

    @sazzrah: That is exactly it.

    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
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    11/03/09

    @bean: I would totally go too. Apocalypto did it in Mayan with subtitles!

    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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    11/03/09

    @TheMightyEthan: Considering the 'American accent' wouldn't have existed back then, at least using a British accent is a teeeeny bit more historically accurate xD #princeofpersia
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    11/03/09

    @quetzilla: The less like Aflopalypto this movie is, the better. #princeofpersia
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    Image of beanbrew beanbrew
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    "Secret Guardian Temple?"

    I really hope that changes, or that I heard it wrong. #princeofpersia
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    ( shake cows, win a ) Milkshake! promoted this comment beanbrew was starred beanbrew was unstarred
    Image of Steven Hott Steven Hott
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    Wow, I just imagined Lord of the Rings if Sam was a hot chick and Frodo was a gay cowboy. #princeofpersia
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    Image of Falsoman Falsoman
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    This is actually looking decent enough to go see at the cinema. I'll dwarf my hopes and look forward to a resident-evil-with-british-accent-quality-game-movie, and anything better than that will be a pleasant surprise! #princeofpersia
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    Image of Drogmir Drogmir
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    I felt that it seemed to be Pirates of the Caribbean moved to Persia.

    And everyone brought their English accents along for the ride. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @Drogmir: And you'd be right, the producer of both is Jerry Bruckheimer. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    FUCK! I wanted to see at least one sand monster. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @Boom-Chicka-Ah: Here to Create a Star Commenter Empire: That video was so pixelated, I thought maybe they were all sand monsters. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @superberg: haha good one #princeofpersia
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    Image of Adhominem Adhominem
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    They forgot the scene with the mountain and the buttsecks. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @Adhominem: I guess now is as good a time as any to dust off those old Brokeback jokes, eh? #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    I see Disney have their Pirates of the Caribbean replacement.
    Three games, three films I wager.
    Unless the films falls flat, but I doubt it will. But you can't always tell from the trailer unlike a game. #princeofpersia
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    Image of Santar Santar
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    If it wasn't for the stubble and the shirtlessness, then Gyldenhal might fit the part okay. But alas. #princeofpersia
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    Image of electroshockwave electroshockwave
    11/02/09

    @Santar: That and the fact that he doesn't look remotely Persian. #princeofpersia
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    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    11/02/09

    @electroshockwave: It just occurred to me what he needs: a rug.

    It is a Persian character without a rug.

    Where would Aladdin have been without a rug?

    Could Lawrence have beaten the Turks without a rug?

    How could you have listened to 1001 stories without a rug to lay on? #princeofpersia
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    Image of GCLonginus GCLonginus
    11/02/09

    @Yossarian: You give the word ignorant a new meaning. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @GCLonginus: or I'm so enlightened you don't understand when I'm poking fun at the "doesn't look like a Persian" comments.

    There was certainly no intent to offend, I had no idea there was any sensitivity to rugs. It wasn't in my mental list of derogatory terms that I'd ever heard. I was playing off "Persian rug" not implying that all Persians own a rug. #princeofpersia
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    11/02/09

    @Yossarian: Looks like someone missed or ignored your sarcasm tags... #princeofpersia
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    Image of GCLonginus GCLonginus
    11/03/09

    @Yossarian: Whatever purpose you were trying to achieve my enlightened friend, a lame joke is lame, offensive in nature or not.

    He is right, the main character looks nothing like the Prince or a Persian person for that matter so your comment was unwarranted at best.

    and for the record Aladdin was not Persian neither was Lawrence. #princeofpersia
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    Image of nick111 nick111
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    I understand that as a games no movie adaptation will ever adapt to what i want it to be just because the personal preference even on a linear game like PoP is not possible to fully capture the experience like a video game does.
    But for Christs Sake he is the prince of PERSIA goddammit! WHY DOES HE HAVE A BRITISH ACCENT!?!

    That is why i firmly believe that games with universes need to be left alone.
    Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 would be a GREAT movie adaptation of a video game. Do you know why?
    Because the main character the player has no attachment to.

    You can not screw up a experience that nobody is emotionally invested in.
    I was honestly saddened (not crying but very saddened) when SGT. Johnson was killed in Halo 3.
    He was like a friend to me during the games. Always comic relief when your getting your ass kicked on legendary mode.

    It will sell good and might be pretty good but it can never translate properly. #princeofpersia
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    Image of The Whaleman The Whaleman
    11/02/09

    @nick111: Little Known Fact: John Cleese Founded the Persian Empire in 550 BC. After ruling it like a madman for a couple of years, he became really , truly mad, used the dagger of time to move himself into the future and started making the best of his madness, by founding the Monty Python empire. #princeofpersia
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    Image of heretrix heretrix
    11/02/09

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    Holy Shit. It looks like they spent more than 50 dollars on the special effects.
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    Image of Sustenance Sustenance
    11/02/09

    In reply to The Prince Of Persia Movie Trailer Covers All The Bases
    I would have very little interest in this loud Bruckheimer production if it weren't for the video game (specifically, the one that shares this movie's subtitle). That the movie deals with a love story, and a time dagger, and sand, and evidently - leaping! - makes me a little hopeful; although watching Ben Kingsly slum it in Hollywood can be fun, he's done it too many times before. I'm still not convinced.

    It looks like they're trying their best to wipe the silly soft-focus Gyllenhaal pre-production stills from everyone's memory before Spring 2010... "Hey everyone, it's Pirates of the Caribbean, back when it used to be fun, and in the desert!" #princeofpersia
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