When will Hollywood actors learn the difference between a TEXAS accent and a SOUTHERN accent?!?

What, we Texans have an accent? ;-)

But really, Hollywood is not interested in reality, even in a reality-based movie such as this.

Interestinly enough, Julia Roberts is a Georgia native. Maybe, since she IS such a poor actor, that's why she sounded like she was sipping mint juleps.

Actors With Southern Accents

All Southern states differ, so you are grouping them together. It's all grouped under Southern, but no two states sound alike. I know because I have relatives ranging from Florida to Texas and up to here in South-Central Illinois, where we have the Southern Illinois brogue! You can't say people in Texas have Texan accents but everyone else is Southern. The speech patterns vary widely, even within a state.

I've heard Billy Bob Thornton's accent identified six ways, including Georgia. Unless people are from a specific region, it's difficult for anyone outside there to clearly identify an accent. Pick two areas in Texas; think about how widely those accents vary. Now, which do you want them to pick?

For an excruciating accent, try to watch Kyra Sedgwick's series! Exactly where is she supposed to be from?

As moviegoers, we frequently hear inaccurate accents. Ancient Rome is filled with actors with varying British accents, for example. I saw a film in which Bryan Brown was playing a sort of detective in that era! Why fuss about a couple of people in a film because you know what Texans are supposed to sound like? I doubt that most people outside the state have any notion and certainly wouldn't recognize a semi-accurate one, and we've had two Bushes in the White House! Do Texans sound like the GBs?

It's impossible to please anyone with how an accent sounds. Even when people study that especially, they still end up being attacked by one group or another who say they didn't get it right.

When watching a movie, it's probably wiser to pay more attention to what they're saying instead of how they sound when they're speaking~unless they have a really dreadful voice. For example, no matter how Adam Sandler talks it's fingernails-on-chalkboard time for me!

First of all no, because it really is trivial and I don't know why you're even bothered by it.

Secondly give those guys a break, imagine trying to perfect every accent for the role you are trying to do, they are not going to nail it because it takes a lot of years for ppl to even develop an accent, I mean Tom Hank in The Terminal was convincing enough to sound like some obscure European.

Accent are one variation of another anyway, and there are really no absolutes when it comes to accents, one may sound like they're from Brooklyn but may have a tint of Boston because they've been moving around. I for one have a New York accent with a bit of English because i've lived in London for 7 years now, and it really creates an interesting variation. I think it's the same with a lot of ppl, unless a person has been living his entire life in a state or city.

A country accent is like alabama accent back in the slave days. Us people in florida sound just like the rest of the USA.

I must concur with Biggie Fries ... except I like Julia Roberts ... ordinarily.

I loved when my Texan friend used to introduce himself with "I'm from Texas, & I cain't haip it."

:-D

Puh-lease.

They're basically the same. There are a few differences, but the dialects and accents are almost identical.

Why are you so worried about this? It's just a fricken movie! You don't hear me complaining when people call my family a group of terrorists because we're from India, when in reality the terrorists are from a whole different part of the world. Do I come on here and rant? No. When they call us Hindus even when we aren't, do I ask why when I already know the answer? No.

Move on with your life. In the scheme of things, does this really matter? No.