"Some Scottish guy"

[steepholm]

I've only lived in Bristol for 25 years, but I must say I get a bit annoyed on the city's behalf when George Lucas describes David Prowse's accent as "hilarious" (to say nothing of "Scottish"). Why shouldn't Darth have a Bristol accent, as much as any other?

What's even more annoying is that even when he was Green Cross Man Prowse was still overdubbed by an actor with something closer to Received Pronunciation.

Just to note - if ever I get to cast Alexander the Great he will have an Inverness accent, as is proper. Alfred the Great will be pure Somerset.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Why would Alexander the Great have an Inverness accent? I suspect I am missing something.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

More likely you're not missing enough, and crediting me with more meaning than is to be found. I chose Inverness purely as a metonym for highland Scotland and a metaphor for the kind of wild, mountainous fastness Macedonia was in the minds the Greeks - a place inhabited by people who spoke a weird-ass version of their own language and had strange barbarous customs, and from which raids and invasions might be regularly expected; a place (in short) not unlike that of Scotland in the English imagination.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see; thanks.