Anyone wish Harry Potter wasn't british?

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Toxi

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There is no such thing as a British accent for a start. Second, its a British creation, so no. Make your own wizard story.
Well, there's a British accent as much as there's an American accent.

Which means it's really just a bunch of different accents that all sound similar to someone not familiar with them.
 

Frog-fu

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S-Wind

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No.

And you are not doing the stereotype of Americans being provincial any favours.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - UGH!
 
I was thinking "parabellum projecto" sounded pretty wizardlly.

And afterwards he could put some shades on and say something like "Voldemort? More like Volde-corpse". Still working on this line though.

Oo to make it even more Americany; the gun could shoot out red, white and blue bullets. While Larry is wearing an American flag shirt with an Eagle on the back. Then the kids back at....Cidermont High all have AR-15s strapped to them…except the black kids…that'd be dangerous. Let's not be irresponsible now!
 
Oo to make it even more Americany; the gun could shoot out red, white and blue bullets. While Larry is wearing an American flag shirt with an Eagle on the back. Then the kids back at....Cidermont High all have AR-15s strapped to them…except the black kids…that'd be dangerous. Let's not be irresponsible now!

They don't need them. No gun is more dangerous than the most powerful spell, the dehumanising stare
 

Romez

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Game of Thrones isn't a British show, they just cast mainly British actors/actresses

What makes a show/film British or American or whatever? Producer? Writer? Director?

Are the Nolan Batman films British? Are the LotR films British/New Zealand? Are the Harry Potter movies American?

If it's production/who ever makes it then nearly every film is American.
 

eot

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What makes a show/film British or American or whatever? Producer? Writer? Director?

Are the Nolan Batman films British? Are the LotR films British/New Zealand? Are the Harry Potter movies American?

If it's production/who ever makes it then nearly every film is American.

Nearly every film?
Plenty of films made outside the US by non-Americans you know.
 
Other cultures make me uncomfortable, even when they speak the same language as I do. I need everything to be distilled into jokes and phrases that I'm already familiar with, because I'm incapable of using context to infer meaning or dealing with unfamiliar orderings of letters and words. That's why I only watch foreign entertainment that has been properly remade by Americans, with American actors. (It's okay if you use a British person to fool me with an American accent. I won't notice.)
 

Ayumi

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It could be worse - I can't watch Trainspotters without subtitles, because I have no idea what they're saying. Scottish, right?
 
They don't need them. No gun is more dangerous than the most powerful spell, the dehumanising stare

This might be true, maybe we can get another movie series about these black people (nature's ninjas). About how they have learned to harness their gifts and turn them into a deadly form of martial arts. Think of it as an offshoot of Naruto. Black people already have the Dehumanizing Stare, which is one of the lost doujutsu long forgotten; and they have their deadly fighting style called Divine Threatening Step which is an offshoot of a the Gentle Step fighting style.

Threatening Step began taught in 776 and even before that, but members of the Gentle Step House felt Threatening Step was too dangerous so they dismantled the Threatening Step school and made members of the sect servants to the House of Gentle Step. By 861 the House of Gentle Step had splintered into different factions; The Northern Gentle Step and the Southern Gentle Step. Northern Gentle Step felt that Threatening Step should be allowed to flourish and the Southern Gentle Step disagreed and thus the great Gentle Step War of 861 began. By the end of the war the Northern Gentle Step Style beat the Southern Gentle Step style and as a result Threatening Step was allowed to open it's schools and teach again. However Northern Gentle Step put in certain rules so that Threatening Step could never get too big.

Fast Forward to 950 and Threatening Step Style had grown in users but Northern Gentle Step and Southern Gentle Step still made sure Threatening Step style users did not have too much freedom and by 960 tensions were running high. That's when one of the Grand Masters; Grand Master Mading Lude Jin tried to rally all the Houses together to show them that it was bigger than anyone one House. Unfortunately someone from the Southern Gentle Style killed him. As a direct result of his murder many of the Threatening Step style had subconsciously unlocked the Dehumanizing Stare while they grieved his lost. The world was not ready.

These kind of side stories just can't happen with a British Harry Potter movie.

I say we make a petition to fund an American remake so we can explore all these stories.
 

sploatee

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Dunno about Harry Potter, but I can't stand American accents. I had turn off Microsoft's conference because I couldn't understand a word Phil Spencer was saying. What language do they speak anyway?!
 

Ayumi

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yes but not heavy accented at all

check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs
Scottish is awesome, I love Scottish and haven't really had any big problems understanding it except when watching Trainspotters (haven't really run into much Scottish stuff anyway).

I did get about 45% of what that guy in your video said though, maybe because I was trying really hard. Is that how they speak in certain areas of Scotland? Rural accent?
 
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