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Why did old american movies sound so different? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by jediToru@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Whenever I watch old movies the characters always have a different tone than they have now. It seems to have changed somewhere from the 2000s. Is it just me or did something change?

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[–] gina@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you’re talking about speech, I think you’re talking about the “mid-Atlantic” accent, although that fell off earlier than 2000. It was a fake upper-class accent actors were trained in. I don’t know much more than that about it.

[–] jediToru@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It sounded real forced. We had a movie made in our country with some shots in US. Throughout these scenes all Americans had this uniform accent, even the black american actors. Glad they decided to ditch this

[–] EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also politicians like Kennedy did it. And so did jerry springer when he was a politician (he did away with it for his show). It’s kind of funny really

[–] d00phy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Kennedy’s was just a Massachusetts accent, AFAIK.