I think Chris Eccleston follows me everywhere....

[jagwriter78]

Okay, for better understanding, they dub TV in Germany. Everything is German.

Now we get to the point. I just turned on the TV. I tend to just listen and not watch. Anyways, I didn't even know what channel I turned on, I just needed to hear people talk. Background noise. So there's this guy talking with an Italian accent. Well, he's talking German with an Italian accent. I looked up, and lo and behold it's Christopher Eccelston! With a rather weird blonde haircut if I may add LOL I just caught the last 15 minutes of Gone in 60 Seconds on TV..... But you know, it's so weird seeing him talk with an Italian accent! Anyone who has seen this movie in English, does he also have an Italian accent in the original version?

Ooooh, and now he's trying to kill Nicolas Cage.....Run, sucker, run! And shooting is so uncool!

Comments

[thecrazykind.livejournal.com]

I'm wanting to say he used his English accent. Definitely wasn't an Italian accent. I honestly can't remember though.

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

The fact that you think that he used his regular accent gives me more confidence in the fact as well. I'm not fairly sure that he used his regular accent. *grin*

[thecrazykind.livejournal.com]

I just searched randomly for 'Christopher Eccleston accent in Gone in 60 Seconds' and it gave me a few reviews that said he used an English accent. I just don't remember it being exactly like the one he uses in DW, but do remember it being English.

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

Now that I think of it, I was on my computer one day with my TV on, as I'm wont to do, and recognized the voice and turned to see what it was, and it was the end of Gone in Sixty Seconds. I've been trying to play the scene in my mind, so I believe it was his normal one.

[thecrazykind.livejournal.com]

Does he use his normal one in DW? I honestly don't know what his natural accent sounds like because I haven't seen him in much...well I kind of have but it was before DW so I didn't really take note of him. I didn't even know DT's real accent until someone said something after Tooth and Claw but I had only ever seen him in Casanova before that do that made me rather clueless.

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

Yes, he uses his normal on in Doctor Who. It's a Manchester accent, from the North. *grin*

[thecrazykind.livejournal.com]

lol Maybe its because he has so few lines in Gone in 60 Seconds. I just don't remember it being quite the same. See, I must rely of those of you more familiar with regional English accents. I can usual only detect general accents and those regional US accents that aren't my own. So basically I can figure out someone isn't from my part of Texas. That's about it. :P

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

I can only tell the difference because I started watching Doctor Who, so I've been telling the difference by watching a lot of PBS. *grin* Currently watching Billie Piper right now, actually.

Plus, being from New England probably helps a wee bit. Tiny space with lots of different accents around, you probably pick up on things more than Texas, which is huge! (Took my first trip to Dallas this summer. Straight streets, it's amazing! *grin*)

[thecrazykind.livejournal.com]

Well, I can at least recognize differences between accents, I just have no idea what region they come from.

Yup, Texas is far and wide. And still I don't really recognize differences in regional Texan accents because having a Texas accent myself makes me somewhat deaf to them. Though there's no ignoring really thick Texas accents. I've also had people tell me I don't sound like I come from east Texas even though I was born and raised here, so what to accents tell anyways. :P

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

That's true...I could tell a Texas accent right away, but probably couldn't tell you what region it was from unless I had first heard the differences between regions at some time.

But, I'm also the silly internet research type who would research what the differences are so that I could hear it. *grin*

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

Hey, you hijacked my thread! LOL But it's been an interesting hijack...

If anyone needs some Linguistics 101, when I got my bachelor, my minor was British varities (as in British dialects in different regions). I can pretty much tell where someone is from IF they stick to their dialect, but sadly, it's blending so much these days you can only tell so much. Usually I am pretty good though :D

What was I gonna say?? Oh yeah, right, John Barrowman can speak with a Scottish accent, too, and it sounds so sexy!

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that: "oh man, jag's gonna have to read all that...but she did want to know if he used the accent." *hehe*

I haven't heard John Barrowman use a Scottish accent. I do think it's rather funny that he has to fake a Scottish accent even when he's Scottish (even though it makes sense since he didn't grow up there). It's still funny. *grin*

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's funny. He does it in one of the commentaries. I am inclined to say it's the one for The Doctor Dances. He mentions that he actually speaks with a Scottish accent at home. There was some debate in the beginning as well about Jack being Scottish, but when it came up that Jack was a con man, John Barrowman thought it would be much better if he was American. It just fit better with being a con man.

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

*hehe* Ah, we Americans have such good sterotypes, eh? Though, I do have to say that it irriates me a bit when he uses British English instead of American since the character is American. For example, in Parting of the Ways he says they'll take the 'lift', though he should say 'elevator'.

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, he's from.... the 25th century? He's from the future, that's for sure. Maybe Britain has finally taken over World Domination LOLOL

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Well then, that makes more sense. The British empire expanded and changed our language!

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

LOL language migrates through the years... new words replace old ones and old ones replace new ones again.... Maybe Jack is a perfect example of that LOL Boy, can you tell I am obsessed with language? LMAO

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

It's a very interesting topic of study. I can see the migration myself, but watching more British shows, I've even been picking up on the lingo. *grin*

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly, CE used his regular accent in that one. *grin* Definitely an interesting haircut...every time I see him, it's different!

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

That's quite funny... I mean, why would they give the guy an Italian accent in the dubbed version? LOLOLOL I guess I have to find the DVD of that movie so I can see for myself.

But the haircut really was wild, I had to look twice (cause I didn't have the voice to go with it), but the nose gave it away. I bet the ears would have given it away, too, if he had had shorter hair LMAO I think CE is a definite chameleon.

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

Yes, I had to say that the movie was the one that I recognized him the most. Not like The Others, which I still almost don't believe it's him. *hehe*

[jagwriter78.livejournal.com]

No, really, in The Others he looks more like himself. I just saw a promo pic the other day. He has a haircut where you can actually see the ears LMAo

[teskafuture.livejournal.com]

But at the time I had rewatched The Others, the only other thing I remembered seeing him in was Doctor Who, and he looks completely different in the two. *grin*