How to train your dragon
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How to train your dragon
We went to see "How to train your dragon" today. Enjoyed it greatly: the story was sweet, and the animation was stunning. There's just one thing I don't understand:
Why did the Vikings all have Scottish accents?
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Why did the Vikings all have Scottish accents?
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Re: How to train your dragon
A condensation of events perhaps? As my ancestry is Viking by way of Scots, perhaps they did it for me. I'll have to see the movie and find out!
Re: How to train your dragon
doesn't the answer tend toward the political?
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Re: How to train your dragon
My guess is that they couldn't find anyone who knew what a Viking sounded like, so they went with the next most incomprehensible.
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Re: How to train your dragon
The original Swedish Chef didn't go well at the test screenings.Redwolf wrote:Why did the Vikings all have Scottish accents?
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: How to train your dragon
Redwolf wrote:.....
Why did the Vikings all have Scottish accents?
........
Given that Vikings didn't even speak English,
which English speaking accent would you consider
authentically representing them?
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Re: How to train your dragon
Lambchop wrote:My guess is that they couldn't find anyone who knew what a Viking sounded like, so they went with the next most incomprehensible.
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Re: How to train your dragon
yes, well, it was brilliant
Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
It's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes, Ashes all fall down.
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Re: How to train your dragon
Bork!Bork!Bork!s1m0n wrote:The original Swedish Chef didn't go well at the test screenings.Redwolf wrote:Why did the Vikings all have Scottish accents?
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Re: How to train your dragon
More curious is how all the children raised in this isolated Scottish Viking Village all spoke with American Kid voices.
Finally feel like I'm getting somewhere. It's only taken 6 years.
Re: How to train your dragon
Have some friends who renovated their kitchen, they got Vikings but I don't think they have been real pleased with them. Some of my sibs married Vikings, mostly from Mininesota, I have never been able to understand them. The Nor-vegans are the worst. Oh! Yah Shure!
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Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
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Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
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Vivat diabolus in musica! MTGuru's (old) GG Clips / Blackbird Clips
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.
Joel Barish: Is there any risk of brain damage?
Dr. Mierzwiak: Well, technically speaking, the procedure is brain damage.