Klingons & ancient Hebrews speak the "Queen's English"

Common Bay Horse sense | 2/15/04 | Jack Armstrong

[Jack Armstrong]

Have you ever noticed (in Film) every one speaks with a British Accent? From Obi Wan to Ben Hur , to Vulcans every one in the bloody universe speaks the Queen's English! I am surprized that the holy lord of factoids-Andy Rooney-hasn't brought up this bit of trivia!

[Jack Armstrong]

I sit here watching Saul of Tarsus on TBN, every one of the actors is enunciating each word with proper British hand! Why ? I ask why didn't the director seek a group who could speak yiddish? They are Jews , of the year 34 AD, the setting is Roman controlled Israel, Jerusalem, Judeah! And then I ask why do not the "Roman Soldiers" speak "italian?" I have been distracted by this since the first Star Trek episodes, back in the 60's. On TV's Enterprize, all the aliens speak the Queen's English as well. With out the first slim whisper of any off brand accent, dialect or twang. If I ever make a Bible epoch I will use an all yiddish cast! It is a great distraction, to hear a Hebrew Pharasee or an Egyptian belting out Shakespearian dialog, among the pillars of the Parthenon! What the?

[martin_fierro]

Klingon food?

British food?

Who the hell knows?

[GeronL]

Universal Translators

[Charles Henrickson]

You want they should sound like Jackie Mason or Myron Cohen or somethingk? Oy!

[Chewbacca]

Looks like a Klingon forehead.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Babelfish

[CounterCounterCulture]

That's what will make Mel Gibson's upcoming "The Passion of the Christ" movie so intriguing. Foreign language (Aramaic being one of the key languages here).

[LadyDoc]

The best actors are British who trained in the theatre. They work cheaper than the star struck Americans, and do a decent day's work. So they tend to get casted in these rolls. So you get ObiWan played by Alec Guiness.

There is also something called "gravitas". You can see a thirty something Russel Crowe playing a General, but if pretty boy Ben Afleck played it, you'd laugh...

The real irony is Lawrence Fishbine and other black actors who also have gravitas get these rolls also...(the actor who plays the Klingon Dorff is a black actor, not British)

Ironically, in Lord of the Rings, the original searches for Frodo was in England, but Elijah Wood sent a video tape of him doing scenes, and got the part. Of course, him and Sam had to fake Brit accents, but if you recognize accents, you'll notice Pippin has a scots accent, not a british one...

[GeronL]

If Babelfish is our first universal translator we will have another world war.