[SouthernSweetieTX]

Originally Posted by worthyoflove (View Post) I mean Remy has a really really heavy cajun accent. I remember Taylor having a bit of a southern twang but nothing like it should have been.

His accent wasn't Cajun at all. Lee's grandpa had the best cajun accent. I would actually lean in towards him when he spoke, as though that would help me understand him better.

His accent wasn't bad, but it wasn't Cajun. He was definitely different than his Riggins accent. He works so hard on his parts, I hate when a character isn't well received.

[elherts]

Originally Posted by SouthernSweetieTX (View Post) His accent wasn't Cajun at all. Lee's grandpa had the best cajun accent. I would actually lean in towards him when he spoke, as though that would help me understand him better. His accent wasn't bad, but it wasn't Cajun. He was definitely different than his Riggins accent. He works so hard on his parts, I hate when a character isn't well received.

I don't think I've ever heard a Cajun accent. I'm going to have to go Google that.

**Now I'm more confused than ever.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

Originally Posted by elherts (View Post) I don't think I've ever heard a Cajun accent. I'm going to have to go Google that. **Now I'm more confused than ever.

Did I confuse you?

[worthyoflove]

I'm not super familiar with cajun accents but in the first season of TD there were a few people that had really really heavy cajun accents, words are combined the cadence is just really different. You almost have to decipher it.

[elherts]

No Taylor but interesting. While I was Googling, the phrase Louisiana Ghetto French came up a lot! I never knew all of this. I learned something new today.

[elherts]

Originally Posted by SouthernSweetieTX (View Post) Did I confuse you?

I always thought Cajun was a French dialect.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

Originally Posted by elherts (View Post) I always thought Cajun was a French dialect.

Cajun is a mix of English and French and has a very distinct sound.

[KitscherSunk]

In that voice comparison video why is some guy named Chris Edgerly doing Taylor's lines???

I remember watching Justin Wilson's cooking show on PBS when I was a kid. It was the first time I heard a Cajun accent.



Kayla, you obviously know much more about this than a lifelong Yankee like me but dialects have always kind of fascinated me and my ears pick up the slight differences in Southern ones depending on state/region. I've never studied linguistics formally so I don't know technical names and phrases, but some sound more lilting vs. twangy vs. nasal vs. guttural, etc. Taylor's accent sounds sexy, but more of the lilting Southern accent that non-Southerners think of when people say "Southern accent," because it's the one we hear in movies the most. The Gone with the Wind accent, so to speak. But no, not Cajun. And it's certainly not his fault if he was being misdirected.

[elherts]

There was a whole munch of people doing Gambit in that video. I wonder why the cartoon had so many different people doing the voice for Gambit.

Now that cooking show -that's an accent I have never heard before.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

Originally Posted by elherts (View Post) There was a whole munch of people doing Gambit in that video. I wonder why the cartoon had so many different people doing the voice for Gambit. Now that cooking show -that's an accent I have never heard before.

Justin Wilson is classic!

I love accents too! I used to work for a company where I spoke to people all over the country. I played a game with myself to see if I could guess where they were from. I got pretty good at it.

Interestingly, most people never guess I'm from Texas. Even with my prolific use of y'all. I just don't have the Tami Taylor drawl.

[worthyoflove]

Gambit, which is supposed to start filming in March and was being rewritten, just lost another director, that would be the third director to leave the project.

[KitscherSunk]

That's an unfortunate setback for the project, but maybe Gore Verbinski wasn't a good fit anyway if they're looking to make a grittier film. Because he directed the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (a couple anyway), I always think of him as a huge-budget, spectacle-type movie director. It doesn't bode well, though. Who knows, maybe Channing will end up directing it himself.

[worthyoflove]

I thought this director would stick, just because he just signed on when they announced it was being rewritten, starting from scratch with a new director sounds promising. To lose that director a few months in seems pretty ominous. You get to a point where a project runs through directors like it has some might shy away from signing on with it wondering what the heck is going on.

[elherts]

Taylor's Gambit

Not sure if anyone posted this in another thread.

I wonder what Taylor thinks when he reads stuff like this.

[SouthernSweetieTX]

Further proof that of we don’t have a Kitsch Gambit, we don’t need one at all.