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@j9lorna Год назад

I took my American girlfriend to a pantomime and it absolutely blew her mind. She started off very uncomfortable when the audience was shouting but by the end, she was screaming her throat out. It was great to see.

@charlesfrancis6894 Год назад

You spoke with a British accent very well for a while considering those Americans who speak with a British accent practice for months and longer before the film shoot.

@sharks3010 Год назад

Agree, I thought it was a great attempt, especially considering that it was done on the fly!

@charlesfrancis6894 Год назад

@@sharks3010 Yes as you say it was done on the fly.What i also like is his honesty .

@timsimpson9367 Год назад

Come on, it's got to be Alan.... Pause..... Rickman. Best Sheriff of Nottingham EVER.

@IAVAIN Год назад

British accents make us sound smarter than Americans to British people as well

@vonsauerkraut Год назад

They are 👍

@sharonkay8638 Год назад

🤣🤣

@nealc.6927 Год назад

Nah. It's because we can do 'menacing' look & voice and make it believable without having to wave a gun around to emphasise it. Unlike Americans.

@leec6707 Год назад

Cold, calm and calculating. Yanks be shouting, whooping and shooting randomly.

@josefschiltz2192 Год назад

Well, I speak RP because I was brought up with an extremely deaf mother. You learn very quickly that not speaking distinctly is very wearing! As for RP speakers making good villains, a scientist summed it up a few years back that human beings find clarity threatening. maybe associating it with authoritarianism. BBC newsreaders, when I was growing up in the 60s, read the news in the RP accent. my mother said she understood them - and that was before subtitling - so I did some voice training, learning how to speak to my mother and be her interlocutor with the rest of the planet. People started to say that I was well spoken and polite, without exactly knowing why! Of course, later on, you get "Oh, he speaks posh!" and "You can hear him miles off!" You really can't win. - except now I sound like Patrick Stewart and have never been in the RSC.

@keitholding8541 Год назад

The "Brit as bad guy" trope is perhaps best shown in "Die Hard", where the villain is very clearly German and is *still* played by a Brit (Alan Rickman).

@paultaylor781 Год назад

Not forgetting the 3rd movie with Jeremy Irons

@matsv201 Год назад

Well... also dressed on wool year round may not be that great of an idea.

@davidberesford7009 Год назад

The mention of pantomime reminds me of another key aspect to the success of British villains, which is the actors traditionally will have learned their craft on stage, doing performance after performance, where they needed to be over the top to get past the footlights. Your brit accents are coming on, keep it up!

@batman51 Год назад

Bad guys nearly always used to be Russian, but after Glasnost and Perestroika in the 1980s, it is clear that American film makers felt they couldn't do that anymore. So the thought who else could they insult instead and, of course, they chose Britain, after all they won't mind!

@russcattell955i Год назад

Of course, Robbie Coltrane played a Russian villain in the Bond films Goldeneye & The World is not Enough.

@wessexdruid7598 Год назад

And before that, the Russians in Holywood films spoke with British accents - Geoff Lindsey has a whole vid about that, on the best US actor playing with a Brit accent (spoiler - William Hurt).

@jeanplunkett5580 Год назад

Russians were only the bad guys in spy films.

@Brookspirit Год назад

The first three Star Wars movies were filmed in England, so many of the cast are English.

@da90sReAlvloc Год назад

It's been going on before that Charles Laughton played great villains so did Boris Karloff both British

@easterdeer Год назад

Your British accent was actually really decent! I'd love to see a video where you try to keep it up the whole way through, It would be so interesting! Dr Geoff is amazing and I love that he mentioned British English making a resurgence; how does it feel to be part of that? 😄 I love hearing Americans use 'cheeky', 'mate' and 'lad' so naturally - I've noticed it a fair few times now. Chris Pratt's Essex accent was pitch perfect - his "going to Ibeefah" killed me 😂 Also, Happy 4th of July for yesterday ❤

@jaccilowe3842 Год назад

Your English accent's coming along well, Connor! I am very impressed.

@KC-gy5xw Год назад

Mark Strong - I'd pay to watch him open a packet of cornflakes, brilliant, underrated actor, whether he's playing a bad guy or a good one..

@anthonymullen6300 Год назад

Should use a voice actors from Burnley Yorkshire and let's not forget the Scousers. Look the vast majority, some 99% of British people don't talk with a posh accent.

@MrDaiseymay Год назад

Because they can act

@nicksykes4575 Год назад

Btw Connor, Geoff or Jeoff is pronounced exactly the same as Geff or Jeff. It's just the older form of spelling the name.

@razor1uk610 Год назад

...unless A Geoff is raised or prefers the GhOff/Goff pronunciation. (Myself am not a Geoff, but a Lewis, not a Louis, Leevis oryis)

@foxracerdrew Год назад

If you're being silly, there's also Ge'off

@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej 9 месяцев назад

Geoffrey was a name introduced by Normans, when they became the elite after the Conquest in 1066. It was originally Geoffroy. Similarly William was introduced then too. It was originally Guillaume.

@waynelowe3329 Год назад

When you were trying to describe sounding very British its called Received Pronunciation or many people will say Queen's English

@jamesdignanmusic2765 Год назад

"Geoff" is pronounced "Jeff" - both short for Geoffrey/Jeffrey! I think it's standard with "older civilisations". The Romans considered the Greeks to be untrustworthy, The French think the same of the Italians and the British think it about the French. The US naturally has the same feelings towards the British - and as you said, that RP accent makes someone sound superior. George Sanders voiced Shere Khan perfectly :) You do pretty good UK accents, BTW!

@MsGilly60 8 месяцев назад

George Sanders is the voice of Shere Kahn, great actor

@robertpetre9378 Год назад

Christopher Lee is the best of coarse as Saruman and count Duku from Star Wars, and of course Count Dracula in all of the hammer horror films he just possessed a certain charm that you get from being a classically trained stage actor.

@andrewcomerford264 Год назад

"The sun never set on the British Empire, because not even God would trust an Englishman in the dark."

@PJtheincel Год назад

You have your history mixed up. We gave the Americans their independence for example.

@chrisholland7367 Год назад

Lol brilliant.

@jettserUK17 Год назад

Em that line makes no real logical and practical sense really! The fact that the British expanded their colonies into a vast global empire showed God was on their side! That sun haven't set on Britain's oversea territories to this day either! 🤗

@zee2012 Год назад

Your getting better with the British accent just keep practising Conner.

@manchestertart5614 Год назад

English accent to be specific,it would be interesting to hear him speaking with other British accents😂

@wrorchestra1 Год назад

I like the fact that the character he chose as the American accented Rebel example was Wedge, played by Scottish actor Dennis Lawson - Ewan McGregor's uncle.

@elunedlaine8661 Год назад

Sir Ben Kingsley was terrifying in the film 'Sexy Beast' with the way he spoke. Hard to imagine he played Gandhi too

@DW-py4up Год назад

He did play Gandhi didn’t he? A white man played one of the most influential Indian men of all time. And the “anti woke” mob didn’t bat an eyelid. Fast forward to current times everyone’s having kittens cos a light skinned black women played cleopatra and Ariel (a fictional Disney mermaid) is being played by a black woman. Funny how white washing characters isn’t “woke” isn’t it?

@maozedong8370 Год назад

@@DW-py4up Ben Kingsley is part Indian though so perhaps that alleviated the negative response.

@DW-py4up Год назад

@@maozedong8370 ahh yes that’s what it is. Ben Kingsley is part Indian. And it’s not like India has a movie industry and an abundance of acting talent. So why not get him to play Gandhi. And Elizabeth Taylor slept on Egyptian cottons sheets that why there’s wasn’t any backlash over her playing Cleopatra, even though Adele James looks closer to an Egyptian than Liz Taylor does. I get it

@maozedong8370 Год назад

@@DW-py4up Exactly! Nah, all jokes aside, I don't really care about who plays what as long as the source material is respected.

@dib000 Год назад

@@DW-py4uphe is not white he has Indian heritage and speaks fluent urdu.

@judithhope8970 Год назад

Good reaction. I didnt know who that person at the end was but had to find out as he was so good he was hilarious. Keep well.

@robkcorbett Год назад

The British accented baddie is a Hollywood cliché. It's easy code for audiences. Also it's not controversial to have a Brit baddie, whereas it may be if they were portrayed as being of some nationalities or ethnicities.

@TheSakura4w Год назад

I speak with somewhat of an RP accent despite being a Brummie. I remember it always being bad to have a Brummie accent when I was growing up and I regularly got mocked for having one so I spoke without it so long that I lost it. It's funny because now I miss it and cant get it back. I do notice that the Brummie accent is perceived as being more friendly than my accent, locally speaking

@footyball66 Год назад

You need a bad guy to sound smart, like he/she is a threat, but that also comes across as egotistical, someone you want to dislike and someone you want to lose. Also a British accent contrasts well will an American accent to distinguish the evil from the good.

@Janie_Morrison 3 месяца назад

Vivien Leigh was English who took and Gone with the Wind I love that movie

@thatsthat2612 Год назад

your accent attempt is better than most

@jillosler9353 Год назад

British actors are trained for the stage as well as films so the route to fame is totally different and they are also taught not to be too proud to act the bad guy, the ugly guy or the one-liner guy. Americans are more about the image they might be portraying.

@stuartgooding7295 Год назад

We just have amazing actors ...and if i was one ..id be a villan every time .

@phillipwalker6517 Год назад

The reason the Brits play so many bad guys is that it requires acting.

@dorothysimpson2804 Год назад

Sheer Khan was George Sanders. By the way "Geoff" is pronounced "Jeff".

@stephenlee5929 Год назад

Hi Connor. Given the underlying difference between British and US humour, The British comedian is often the butt of their own jokes, not so with US comedians, I believe. So do American actors like to or enjoy playing the villain or do they avoid it? Could it ever be a good career move? My feeling is no to both questions.

@PerryCJamesUK Год назад

That was an enjoyable video and reaction. Excellentino.

@sean8998 Год назад

The American accent is in no way, shape or form intimidating enough to be believable, I'm sorry, it just really isn't.

@razor1uk610 Год назад

If they US accent is with a voiced with malice, intent of violence... I'd say its down to the situation, the implication and severity of speakers tone.

@sean8998 Год назад

@razor1uk610 I get what you're saying but anything an American could and would say to me I've heard before in every movie and every meme. You'd raise a lot of eyebrows and drop a lot of jaws in America if you called someone a " Stupid c**t ".. however, in most of the UK that's used daily, sometimes as a term of endearment 😂

@generaladvance5812 Год назад

That was a pretty solid effort at RP. Watch a few seasons of downton abbey and you'll be sorted.

@williambailey344 Месяц назад

Like you trying out the accents it actually pretty good.

@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej 9 месяцев назад

Cary Grant was British, though he adopted the so-called 'mid-Atlantic' accent. He played mostly comedy roles. He was SO handsome!!!

@christinestromberg4057 Год назад

Of course, yes, there are many British accents, but it's mostly the upper class accent this film concentrates on. Oh and Geoff is pronounced as Jeff. Just so you know. And just in case you ever hear the singer Geoff Castellucci. :)

@JustinSawyer-ji5wm Год назад

I thought the reason I always got the bad guy role at school plays was but because I was a good actor... Now I'm 30... I think they just thought I was a douche and therefore a natural lol

@lolololol7573 Год назад

Not just British. Never noticed the 'sass', and how they're alone? Yeah.

@TheRedPeril Год назад

It’s just the accent. Imagine Tywin Lannister played by an American 😂

@jayjoyce6674 Год назад

im a proud Yorkshire man I love my accent which is the sean bean accent hes a Yorkshire man from my neck of woods Sheffield City northerners do play good villains not just southerners

@jettserUK17 Год назад

I recall an American plying the evil English King Edward Longshanks in Braveheart, a very underrated Villain and a Brit playing Hans Gruber as villain in Die Heart alike.

@cazzyuk8939 Год назад

You have a good English accent!

@ukbusman Год назад

Good analysis at the begining Conner, you could be right.

@colingregory7464 Год назад

The villains tend to get paid lots of money for less work than the heroes George Sanders and Christopher Lee had long and distinguished careers as bad guys Star Wars had a huge number of British actors as both heroes and villains

@jasongoodacre Год назад

Your British accent is pretty good. It's non specific which is handy. Everyone who listens to me knows what part of England I'm from. It follows me like a bad smell 😊

@FreeSpeech1212 Год назад

Most Brits don't sound like that really. Most people have regional accents of which there are many.

@uingaeoc3905 Год назад

The reason is simply because everybody plays victimhood under the Brits. So it is easier to make them seem bad and also that Brits do not complain about being stereotyped or charactured because we do this to ourselves ... and everybody else, Yank!

@irene3196 Год назад

It's nothing to do with accents. The Brits are just better actors. Also, the inbred sarcasm helps.

@dp-sr1fd Год назад

I blame George Sanders. He started it.

@rbrooks2007 Год назад

George Sanders was the right choice for the 1967 version of Jungle Book where he was the voice for sardonic baddie Shere Khan. Look for the 1941 film Manhunt where he plays the sardonic Nazi hunting down his victim. The mid-Atlantic accent as taken up by Bette Davis, certainly got her a lot of baddie roles.

@billyo54 Год назад

Perhaps Americans put such great emphasis on being ordinary, plain speaking and "down to earth ". These attributes are seen as honest and straight forward. In contrast the Oxford English accent may be seen as cunning, sly, calculating and duplicitous. In reality these assumptions are often wrong, of course.

@philipcochran1972 Год назад

"Can't". See Singin in the rain

@petersmith5363 Год назад

There's a danger in over-thinking this. The American accent is the accent of the movies, as 99% of movie stars are American. You all sound like movie stars to me! The British accent is a bit different, so Brits are often chosen to play baddies. In British movies, baddies are often played by Johnny foreigner!

@anvilbrunner.2013 Год назад

You're alright at accents. I wish I could do other accents.

@kg291 Год назад

my other half speaks queens english and im a northern south yorkshire game of thrones speaker lol

@dogwithwigwamz.7320 Год назад

You must know that we are not all dirty rotten scoundrels. Villains, TrickFingers, Coke Miners.....

@Cayles764 Год назад

Geoff is pronounced like "Jeff" its the traditional spelling. Its my dad's name.

@bradleystephen8331 Год назад

pls make a whole video with a british accent 🤣

@happydog3422 Год назад

Geoff is Jeff

@KellyTheOG Год назад

Your attempt at the accent actually wasn’t bad at all

@johnsharp6618 Год назад

It's worth bearing in mind that a lot of British cinema actors do stage work. , r.p for preconception to the back of theatre is essential for people at the rear to hear what is being said clearly.

@peterjones6733 Год назад

I was laughing before you… Rambo 3 ha ha ha.

@pjmoseley243 Год назад

maybe the clear british accent is understood better than most?

@BrianMac2601 Год назад

Since star wars was mentioned often, here's the actual darth vader that you see, but they got jej to voice him. It's only 30 seconds so I'm not suggesting a video on it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xR7_Bz9fIPA.html

@Bill-2203 Год назад

I would love Conner to have done that British accent the whole way through it was a lot better than I was expecting 😂

@DavidSmith-cx8dg Год назад

This chap seems to know what he's talking about . The accents are versatile for many types of role , and some Americans have mastered it .Your attempt at a British accent was pretty good , but a couple of lapses into the dreaded Dick Van Dyke .

@JJ-of1ir Год назад

Well done sir! Great British accent or should I say accents. It seems you are a born mimic. It's a rare talent!

@Claudiaxyz Год назад

What's fascinating to me is the American Mid-Atlantic accent, I don't know if it's on the decline, I think Gore Vidal was a speaker.

@1Anime4you Год назад

Continue reacting to his channel, you won't regret it.

@IamOllytech Год назад

I think we are only talking about a Southern English accent perhaps only a South Easterly accent. Like mine MAWAHAHAHA

@lewistaylor1965 Год назад

4:36...Please talk like that Jib...So much win!...That's actually a very good Brit accent

@manchestertart5614 Год назад

Usually the villainous character has an English accent. I find Americans say British when they mean British English. Jason Isaacs as Colonel Tavington in The Patriot. I wonder how many Scots,Welsh and Northern Ireland accents are used in American films for playing the villain?

@denysmace3874 Год назад

There's something to be said about people believing that if you've got a posh accent you're somehow cleverer. Maybe posh accent suggests wealth which suggests you went to a better school? It's nonsense, of course. You won't hear a more effectedly posh accent than that of Jacob Rees Mogg, a British politician, yet i can't imagine anyone who speaks more drivel.

@LoneRanger100 9 месяцев назад

And ironically it’s always accentless RP. Why this phrase British accent recently, that could mean any one of four countries and hundreds of accents. At least say English accent because that’s always what they’re referring to. Posh, south east, rp English.

@tonybaker55 Год назад

We are just BAD!

@stuarthumphrey1787 Год назад

You're English accent was good. Better than most American actors, who usually, (supposidly trained) butcher it. Especially when they attempt a cockney accent

@uingaeoc3905 Год назад

You pronounce 'Geoff' as 'Jeff' as Geoffrey and Jeffrey are the same pronounciation but different spellings.

@Bazroshan Год назад

HAL 9000, played by a Canadian, was menacing. Our very own McJibbin, doing Essex, was not.

@joelprice6451 Год назад

ever one make a good or bad people in movie british or american or who ever . one thing is the same that is intimadation

@lowlygrinder2977 Год назад

It's Jeff.

@jmckeev765 Год назад

to narrow it down, they've got english accents, not british. a british accent could be english, welsh, scottish, irish or manx (isle of man) i've also wondered why the bad ''british accented bad guys'' always sound like a news reporter or something speaking queens english. why is that?

@chrisellis3797 Год назад

Should be titled English accents really. In the main it's used more than the rest of Britain in films

@stirlingmoss4621 Год назад

Hey, that was actually good Connor ! A Brit accent...

@peterjones6507 Год назад

Can't have a American villain, bad propaganda.

@MichaelJohnsonAzgard Год назад

Wedge was played by a Brit.

@lewistaylor1965 Год назад

12:34...I always thought Margaret Dumont was a Brit from her accent...She was a great straight man (woman) for Groucho...Apparently she genuinely didn't understand Grouchos gags...Without the Marx brothers we wouldn't have had The Goons and without The Goons we wouldn't have had Python...I digress

@claudiavictoria3929 Год назад

😊

@britblue Год назад

Hollywoods "British" accent for bad guys is invariably an English Home Counties "Received Pronunciation" accent - you never see a Hollywood bad guy sounding like Ozzy Osbourne!!

@enemde3025 Год назад

JAGUAR. JAG YOU ARE. Not JAG WAR.

@Smoshy16 Год назад

You literally haven't been able to formulate a point in the last 2 weeks or so of uploads.

@Sir_Rantalot Год назад

The same Brits as in Brexit? Smart? Argueable ...

@abnormallyfunny Год назад

Why does a gay accent suit you?

@angelinavisions8795 Год назад

😂

@Belzediel Год назад

Sorry, no, posh accent means very dangerous. Good for villains and anti-heroes. Really tough to take seriously someone who claims to be a language expert but then says 'enthusiasms', as it's an uncountable noun. Also, this guy is just wrong. He's a communist for a start and that badly clouds his thinking - he sees posh accents as being bad because he sees the world only in terms of a class struggle, and he's ignoring a bunch of stuff, such as... 'posh' accents were very much seen as indications of positive characteristics, I have only to point you to war films. Just about every British war film hero is posh AF. David Niven shooting down Jerries? Posh AF. John Mills driving an ambulance across the sahara? Posh AF. Peter O'Toole going native in Arabia? Posh AF. Not to mention there are plenty of iconic characters than NOW sound posh AF and are not seen that way. Sherlock Holmes, James Bond for example. Anything Judy Dench plays. No. Posh goes with villains for one reason only - they sound intelligent, and . You want your villain to be ridiculously intelligent because, well, otherwise they're morons and where's the fun in that? Virtually every antagonist has to be defeated despite being cleverer than the protagonist because that's what we enjoy.

@stirlingmoss4621 Год назад