[ SECRET POST #3884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3884 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Stephen Strange is American

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's pretty clear OP is talking about Benedict Cumberbatch.

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty clear you've missed the point. The CHARACTER that Cumberbatch is playing is American. Therefore OP's expectation that Cumberbatch would use his native British accent when playing said character is unrealistic.

[(Anonymous)]

Having not seen this, I'm idly curious: how is his American accent? He has such a heavy natural accent, I have trouble imagining him without it.

[(Anonymous)]

About the same as Hugh Laurie's as Dr. House; you can tell sometimes, but otherwise it makes him sound very clipped and proper and befitting of both a surgeon and sorcerer.

[(Anonymous)]

No, Hugh Laurie's was much better and very consistent. Cumberbatch's is much wobblier, especially when he's in a scene with other British actors. I think it would have been better if he went for a more transatlantic accent and stuck with it!

[rosehiptea]

I can't speak to Cumberbatch but I could virtually never tell with Hugh Laurie.

[(Anonymous)]

Have to disagree. Hugh Laurie had the rare slip-up that was mostly to do with stressing the wrong syllable, but he had a far more fluent and natural sounding American accent than Cumberbatch.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm west-coast Canadian and to me his accent seemed completely fine. So I guess a Brit trying to sound American just sounds Canadian? Lol, I honestly have no idea what people in this thread feel he did wrong. He sounded like an American to me - just a particularly well-spoken one, without any twang.

[el_regrs]

I don't either. Of course, this was the first role I'd ever seen him in, so I wasn't trying to catch him in a slip-up like I'm such an expert or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't trying to catch him in a slip-up like I'm such an expert or something.

Haha, yeah me neither. I don't really understand people who look for flaws in an actor's accent. I mean, if an accent is really terrible, then okay, I guess maybe it could ruin the character for me. But man, that accent would have to be atrocious - like, Keanu in Dracula bad (sorry Keanu).

I actually usually find it endearing when an actor slips a bit. Even if they slip quite a lot, I usually just think, well, everybody talks a little differently than everybody else, even within the same accent group; this is just that character's way of talking.

[(Anonymous)]

Californian, here (I think that's still part of the US) and he sounded fine to me. If I didn't know he was British, I wouldn't have even noticed anything. Yeah, he pronounced a few words oddly, like 'power', I think, but then I'd just assume he was Canadian. I think a lot of people who complain about this are being overly harsh...

That said, I agree with the OP: natural accent = way better.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, he sounded like an American who spent a lot of time in a posh British public school/boarding school and had some of his native accent altered by that (which, considering the arrogant prodigy character type he played, actually fit quite well).

[(Anonymous)]

I thought his accent was fine.

[wldcatsprstr_14]

His accent is aawfuuuuuul. He was trying to speak like an American but his mouth was moving like a Brit and it was just a mess.

Dear Lord, that movie was painful to watch.

[(Anonymous)]

Come now, Doctor Strange was a vast improvement over Black Mass and August: Osage Country. I could actually watch Doctor Strange without wanting to laugh.