I'm about 15 minutes into How To Train Your Dragon, the original flavour and... why are these vikings all speaking with a Scottish accent? Are they actually in magical fairy Scotland? Wha?
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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Vonnie K - Jun 25, 2014 5:21:22 pm PDT #27198 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Zenkitty - Jun 25, 2014 6:13:47 pm PDT #27199 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Julie, thank you; that seals the deal. I will never watch that movie.
Consuela - Jun 25, 2014 6:25:32 pm PDT #27200 of 30000
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Vonnie, yes, I think it's supposed to be an island off the north coast of Scotland. Which is, well, historically accurate: the Vikings settled all over the north of Britain.
Fiona - Jun 25, 2014 9:18:04 pm PDT #27201 of 30000
Yes, but the adults speak with Scottish accents and the youth are all American. Maybe the Vikings had just discovered North America and brought back the accent.
Consuela - Jun 26, 2014 4:59:08 am PDT #27202 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, that's weird.
flea - Jun 26, 2014 5:02:04 am PDT #27203 of 30000
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People, it is a cartoon involving dragons. Handwaving the accents ought to be simple!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 26, 2014 5:12:43 am PDT #27204 of 30000
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Maybe the Vikings settled in the part of Egypt that produced Sean Connery's accent in Highlander?
Zenkitty - Jun 26, 2014 5:30:33 am PDT #27205 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Sean Connery is proof that the "Scottish" accent is the Ur-accent of all humanity. If you could hear him speak his ancient native language, it would totally be in a Scottish accent. Only the Scots managed to not lose their ancestral accent.
Vonnie K - Jun 26, 2014 5:40:49 am PDT #27206 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Yes, but the adults speak with Scottish accents and the youth are all American. Maybe the Vikings had just discovered North America and brought back the accent.
Yeah, that was a head-scratcher. I immediately recognized Craig Ferguson's voice as the dragon-hunt instructor (I did not know he was in this film!), which made me happy, so I guess I'm OK with handwaving. Like flea said, in the scheme of things, this isn't the most ludicrous thing in the film by any stretch!
At least I could decipher these Scottish accents. A few weeks ago, I went to see the Scarlett Johansson alien-predator flick, uh, Under the Skin, and could barely understand some of the Glasgow dialect spoken by the locals.
Burrell - Jun 26, 2014 8:16:00 am PDT #27207 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I think it has to do with broad cultural associations (AKA problematic stereotypes) between Scottish accents and tough, uncouth behavior. Don't the dwarves in the Middle Earth movies have Scottish accents as well?