nicked on 30/6/2014 at 05:34
Same reason anyone from anywhere in any fantasy film has an English accent.
i.e. America as we know it has a very short, uneventful history compared to the rest of the world, and so if you want to convey that somewhere is steeped in the mythology of 10,000 years, you have to go to the Old World. Since Americans speak English, that limits you to English-speaking countries in the old world, so England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland. Therefore if you have someone who is a viking or from some fantasy rugged northland, you'll want to go Scottish to conjur up images of marauding Picts.
faetal on 30/6/2014 at 09:45
I want to see a film where all of the elves have South African and Australian accents.
SubJeff on 2/7/2014 at 20:57
They should all be Welsh. Elfish always sounds like Welsh anyway.
MsLedd on 22/7/2014 at 20:39
Yeahbut all the adults have thick Scottish accents and the kids/teens are all American... WTF is up with that?
(still LOVE these movies)
faetal on 23/7/2014 at 07:16
That's obvious - a Scottish accent is the natural breakdown product of a US one. Simple.
(kids are bad at accents and they can't find/trust any Scottish child actors, or ladies with high enough pitched voices to pass as kids, it's a conundrum)
SubJeff on 23/7/2014 at 12:08
It sounds earthy, from the past, and wise.
Nicker on 24/7/2014 at 02:12
I think that if they had tried to do some sort of Nordic accent it would have sounded like a village of Swedish Chefs.
I just saw it and enjoyed it thoroughly. But I am a sucker for animation.
Fafhrd on 24/7/2014 at 04:02
Quote Posted by faetal
(kids are bad at accents and they can't find/trust any Scottish child actors, or ladies with high enough pitched voices to pass as kids, it's a conundrum)
None of the "kid" characters are voiced by child actors.
faetal on 24/7/2014 at 05:39
Then I'm out of ideas.
Thirith on 24/7/2014 at 06:34
I'd imagine they thought that the kid characters need to be identification figures for the main audience and therefore sound as much like them as possible, i.e. American.
