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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
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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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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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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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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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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
11/02/09
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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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