Dave Schumaker » theater http://daveschumaker.net life, technology, outdoors, photography Tue, 15 May 2012 03:52:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Why do people in fantasy worlds speak with a British accent? http://daveschumaker.net/why-do-people-in-fantasy-worlds-speak-with-a-british-accent/ http://daveschumaker.net/why-do-people-in-fantasy-worlds-speak-with-a-british-accent/#comments Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:26:13 +0000 Dave http://daveschumaker.net/?p=19281 Continue reading →]]> This is something I’ve often wondered, especially lately as we’ve been watching “Game of Thrones.” Why do people in these fantasy / medieval worlds (e.g., “Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones”) always speak with a British accent?

Martin has said English accents work best for fantasy, as the genre is rooted in the Middle Ages.

“It’s full of castles and lords and swords and knights and all the other trappings that we associate with England in this country. It seems natural. It would be hard to do with a group of actors who had thick Southern accents,” he has commented.

Hah, seems to make sense to me!

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“I definitely felt bad about using my gadgets afterward,” Dave Schumaker wrote on the personal-technology site Gdgt.com, where he is community manager. “I arrived at the show carrying my bag containing a MBP [MacBook Pro], iPad and iPhone — all of which were made in Shenzhen.”

Not too shabby!

(And yes, I still feel bad about these gadgets. Man, oh, man. What a performance by Mike Daisey.)

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