AndyBM Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 is anybody watching this? bbc 2 set in 1919 birmingham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 bugger meant to, sounds interesting rrrrrrrrrreplay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I have got it on but I'm not watching it, I'm recording it whilst listening to music, my mate text me and said that the brummie accents a **** shit though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 what do you recon of it any way? is it any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 the accents are a bit hit and miss, the commie bloke and the aunties are shit what building did sam neill just go in to? looked like it was meant to be the town hall or BMAG or something but it wasn't its good, not as cinematic as the previews made out and its a bit slow IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 An english version of boardwalk empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 spoiler - really disappointed that they showed the cap the way they did rather than actually using it for a cheap bit of violence, would have loved to have seen someone headbutted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 the accents are a bit hit and miss, the commie bloke and the aunties are shit what building did sam neill just go in to? looked like it was meant to be the town hall or BMAG or something but it wasn't its good, not as cinematic as the previews made out and its a bit slow IMO Wasn't most of it shot in Leeds or somewhere like that because it is still as dilapidated as Brum was in 1919 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Liverpool, its the only place in the country where those houses still exist (they are all empty and waiting to be demolished though) and the council would let them film I don't think BCC have been overly kind to them, will no doubt change if the show is an international success Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggy_333 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 The accents are apparently a genuine representation of 1919 Birmingham accents they've had historians on set from what I've read.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 They're sounding the H in everything. In brummie or black country you don't sound any H. Admittedly I wasn't around in 1919. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I read that they spent weeks in small heath to get a grasp on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Knight, whose screenwriting credits included the critically acclaimed films Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, took Murphy – who plays gangland leader Tommy Shelby – to The Garrison, a Victorian pub in the south-east Birmingham neighbourhood where the writer grew up and where the real “Peaky Blinders” once ruled the streets. “Cillian listened to the way they talked and recorded everything and from that he has brilliantly developed Tommy’s way of talking which is back to the hard, fast Birmingham accent. It’s very intelligible and even an American will be able to understand it.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeHavilland Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 I thought it was very good - flawed, but very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnie Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Very good imo. I usually hate British dramas but this was very good. Was a slow episode but you can tell it is building up to be something quite brilliant. The brummie accents are awful though. Some chracters sounded scouse whilst others sounded more cockney. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted September 12, 2013 Share Posted September 12, 2013 Our lesser neighbours received a mention, their forum is probably busy talking all about...that we weren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 12, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2013 Our lesser neighbours received a mention, their forum is probably busy talking all about...that we weren't.Its written by a nose (according to Rob) and set in Small Heath so that bit was inevitable 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-T Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Our lesser neighbours received a mention, their forum is probably busy talking all about...that we weren't. 5 threads on the first page 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phumfeinz Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 I thought this was going to be a thread about nosy bastards who peak through their blinds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Some chracters sounded scouse Often the case with actors trying to put on a brummie accent, especially if they aren't very talented. I was amazed at the number of brummie scousers who worked at the Crossroads motel. The other trap they fall into is to do a Black Country accent rather than a brummie one. Much, much easier to pull off because it doesn't have any of the subtleties of inflection and cadence the brummie accent has. Yeah, I know, subtlety and brummie accent don't generally appear in the same sentence but it's an odd one. It seems it is very hard for a non-brummie to hold it together for more than a few words before they lose it somewhere. So there you go, you brummie-accented folks. It's a totally sheeite, utterly bone accent but at least few can mock you for it via accurate mimicry. The good thing is it's usually possible to flip it around on anyone trying by scornfully enquiring whether that was supposed to be a brummie accent because it's the worst attempt you've ever heard. Follow that up with "I'm guessing your impersonation of German accent makes you sound like you are from New Delhi" and you've shut the word removed up for good with his pathetic attempts at accent mockery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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