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Movie Distractions
I’m sitting here watching Elizabeth, The Golden Age while the snow falls and the dogs snooze. I can see why Cate Blanchett was nominated for her starring performance and why the film won awards for costume design and art direction. But, I’m totally put off by Mary Stuart’s thick Scottish brogue. Mary Queen of Scots was raised in France (her mother’s birthplace) and was a French queen at one time. She almost certainly spoke French and, if anything, had a French accent. It’s very distracting to someone even marginally familiar with the history.
James Delingpole and Toby Young discussed the odd and unlikely appearance of a Sikh soldier in the movie 1917 portrayal of WWI and the Western Front.
What do you find distracting in otherwise good movies?
Published in General
What’s funny is that so many people from southern regions act as though the “south” is one monolithic accent and culture. Tidewater has very little in common with Mississippi, though.
I’ll second this comment…
Further proof, people are conservative about what they know best.