Why is it that so many English-language productions of ancient Rome use British accents for their characters?
Also, can we talk about HBO's Rome? I rather enjoyed the series. I just wish it had gotten a bigger budget to actually film some good fight scenes.
because most of those productions are British.
It's wrong, all the actors should speak Latin.
Brits love the Roman empire.
>Why is it that so many English-language productions of ancient Rome use British accents for their characters?
>Also, can we talk about HBO's Rome?
Overall kino as fuck. Second season was a little rushed but that's the studio's fault not the producers.
They made all that effort to make realistic roman soldiers but didnt bother making the gauls look at least plausible?
Gives the US audience a feeling of otherness whilst retaining the ability to understand the speech.
Because bingbongs have well known class-based accents. You get people with upper class accents to play patricians and you get those fish-monger types to play plebs.
durrrrr really?
Wrong answers. It's because of Shakespeare.
British are superior actors
It's not wrong, Brits do like the Roman empire and stories based on it.
>form of 2nd triumvirate
>Cicero death - 7 Dec 43BC
>Brutus death - 23 Oct 42BC
they show all the above within one episode including battle of phillipi yet after all that Titus wife is STILL pregnant
yeah, nice show you got here...
Good point. Women can be pregnant for extended periods of time but not quite that long.
I actually knew a lady who was pregnant for 10 months. They had to c-section her child out. Giant kid.
Based I know a kid who was born at nine months stayed out for three months and went back in for another two months and was rebirthed again. Giant lad named chuck. He was formerly sneed before he was rebirthed
Cringe
Is that even possible
Maybe because before the Norman French, Angles and Saxons invaded the British Isles, the Romans had invaded Britain and Romanized some of the Celtic tribes that were on the island, even mixing with them.
Britain’s main legendary hero is King Arthur,
While nobody is certain of who Arthur was, some of the main historical candidates for the actual King Arthur are Roman soldiers, or Roman aristocrats that were known to have been in Britain at the time.
I forgot to add something about the movie, The Eagle. The Romans in The Eagle had American accents while the Celtic peoples, the Picts and Seal tribe, had the actors use the accents from the United Kingdom, Irish, Scottish and British and all that. Something to do with the role of the United States these days, about the U.S. and its Imperialism/Empire. Check the movie's wikipedia.
Why do they all look like Celto-Germans? Even Vorenus comments on his Gallic appearance but Atia looked even more foreign
because they're british
It's a mystery.