Mack wrote: >Gil, I will have to disagree with you on this one. I grew up close to >Happy, Texas and did not find Mr. Northam's accent very true to form.
Easy there, Tex. Was Northam's character from Texas? Just because he visited the town doesn't mean he had to talk the talk, so to speak. >The >entire movie was ridiculously silly. In Happy, Texas, they would not put up >with a couple of homosexuals for more than a few moments and the movies >premise that they were somehow accepted is not true. Sure, there may be >homosexuals performing the stereotypical tasks in towns like these but they >don't come out and say they are queer. If so, not very loud. And if they >do, they don't last long. The Texas Panhandle is the bastion of the >Baptist, church of Christ, and Methodist churches. They don't tolerate this >kind of thing. a. It was a movie. b. It was filmed in California. All of it. >I wasn't privy to the town's public stance on this movie but >I would bet money that the majority of the town was mortified by the movie >and its content. I'll bet you're right. Maybe the producers should have added a disclaimer that the movie town bore no similarity to the Texas town. >\ One thing I have noticed in movies is that there seems to be a real >problem for actors in distinguishing between a Texas accent and a Southern >accent. They are not the same and many sound like Scarlett O'Hara as they >try to sound Texan. Yes, they're not the same. Thanks to Uncle Sugar I lived a couple of years in Georgia (Joe-ja). My brother spent the last of his life living in Austin. My Southern wasn't much like his Texan. Did the rest of the actors sound remotely Texan to you. What was that accent Steve Zahn had? All of this begs the question, where is Bob Easton now that we need him more than ever? And while we're at it, does Texas have regional accents, as does California? And can you hear the difference in accents between Georgia and Tennessee, N'Orleans and No'th Ca'lina? Gil
