Regional Accents - What's most ridiculous for Bond
thesecretagent
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Napoleon Plural's link in response to "Could this work?" by sweepy the cat got me thinking on what regional accent would be most ridiculous for Bond. Timothy Dalton has a slight undertone of Yorkshire, but sounds great - Sean Connery obviously became more Scottish as he went on - but still sounds good.
My choice for least likely to sound good would be:
1) Brummy - Birmingham/midlands etc - The only accent where nothing can sound cool
2) Somerset/Westcountry - just sound simple
3) Geordie - just plain thick
No offence, it's just a laugh and we're talking Bond here, not regional stereotyping - geographically I've covered myself and most of my family with this!
My choice for least likely to sound good would be:
1) Brummy - Birmingham/midlands etc - The only accent where nothing can sound cool
2) Somerset/Westcountry - just sound simple
3) Geordie - just plain thick
No offence, it's just a laugh and we're talking Bond here, not regional stereotyping - geographically I've covered myself and most of my family with this!
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I've only just realised that Dalton's Bond sounds slightly Yorkshire (strange considering he's Welsh) Sometimes, I think Brosnan let his Irish accent slip ever so slightly.
A yorkshire Bond would be kind of cool, and could work. It's certainly not the classiest acent but it can sound very tough and masculne. Alec Trevelyan from Goldeneye's a good example of the yorkshire accent in Bond (Sean Bean's also a local lad who attended the same college where I'm currently studying.)
Of course Diana Rigg (also yorkshire, also local) had a fairly posh and decidedly un-Yorkshire accent.