People in Mistborn movie should have Southern US accents.

[pureintonation she/her]

Hear me out!!

Most of the names are French or French-inspired. 

Luthadel as fantasy New Orleans... Class divide, decaying aristocracy, balls, revolution??? Instead of making it medieval or European like everything else...

And then Era 2 is basically cowboys!? Don't tell me Wax doesn't have a country drawl! 

[Dilly honor spren she/her]

WAIT you might be on to something big

[pureintonation she/her]

2 hours ago, Dilly honor spren said:

WAIT you might be on to something big

thank you for hearing me out

furthermore... NOLA is already kinda misty because of the bayou ... imagine mistwraiths... gliding around trees with ominously dangling spanish moss...  finally a fantasy setting for new orleans aesthetic that isn't about vampires... s'il vous plait. not that it has to be filmed there or anything, just the vibe... it matches.

also visual cues of the noble houses congregating in plantation style homes... like u dont need a ton of exposition dumping to understand what's happening and how skaa are treated

ALSO noble houses southern accents v skaa southern accents could signal the class divide

"Vin, you risked your life for that fool of a boy? Bless your heart!" 

[MrHobbes343]

I hadn't thought of it before, but I could see it...I still want Dockson to sound like a scottish matron like in the audiobooks.

[Aliroz-The-Confused]

Wait, do you mean to tell me that there are people who read the first Mistborn trilogy and didn't imagine those accents for the nobility?

 

NOTE:  If this is done in the movie, it should either be done by having people who natively have the relevant accent as the actors OR someone with Daniel-Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln-level skill sounding as close to historically accurate for the relevant regions as possible.  No one from any coasts affecting a fake accent (so no Gregory Peck pretending not to be from California in To Kill A Mockingbird), no exaggerated nonsense like comedians do, no downplaying-it-to-be-more-comprehensible-and-familiar-to-the-audience, just solid, natural, genuine accents.

Considering how Wayne operates in the sequel trilogy, getting accents right is arguably a massive plot point that needs to be set up (especially with how Kandra work) and worth every effort.  I mean, Apple has the money.

I want somebody, years from now, to be able to make a compilation of every "Kandra 'a'" sound so we can all lose our minds when we realize that it was both subtle and intentional.

 

Failing that, have every Kandra who says 'a' say it like Homsar:  AaaAAAAaaAAAaaAAAAaa.  And have nobody notice until Wayne points it out in Shadows of Self.

[pureintonation she/her]

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11 hours ago, Aliroz-The-Confused said:

Wait, do you mean to tell me that there are people who read the first Mistborn trilogy and didn't imagine those accents for the nobility?

 

NOTE:  If this is done in the movie, it should either be done by having people who natively have the relevant accent as the actors OR someone with Daniel-Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln-level skill sounding as close to historically accurate for the relevant regions as possible.  No one from any coasts affecting a fake accent (so no Gregory Peck pretending not to be from California in To Kill A Mockingbird), no exaggerated nonsense like comedians do, no downplaying-it-to-be-more-comprehensible-and-familiar-to-the-audience, just solid, natural, genuine accents.

Considering how Wayne operates in the sequel trilogy, getting accents right is arguably a massive plot point that needs to be set up (especially with how Kandra work) and worth every effort.  I mean, Apple has the money.

I want somebody, years from now, to be able to make a compilation of every "Kandra 'a'" sound so we can all lose our minds when we realize that it was both subtle and intentional.

 

Failing that, have every Kandra who says 'a' say it like Homsar:  AaaAAAAaaAAAaaAAAAaa.  And have nobody notice until Wayne points it out in Shadows of Self.

I could be wrong but I assume most people jump to British accents at least for Era 1. Especially with all the French words… it’s like when you watch an American movie set in France, and we’re meant to believe everyone is speaking French, but it’s actually in English… well, the accents will probably be British, not American! 
 

apple def has the $$$ for some accent coaches hehe

Tho I think for that wayne plot point, it would be less about how the kandra pronounces ever a and theyd have to focus on just a single word that gets repeated and pronounced differently