why does princess leia speak in a garish english accent

[datasuspect]

in the first moments of "star wars?"

why are all imperial officers english?

[sammythecat]

1. I don't care if she speaks Pennsylvania Dutch

Carrie Fisher was, and still is, hot. :thumbsup:



I guess the English accent sounds regal.

[rug]

2. It's to acclimate you to the next hundred cliches.

[datasuspect]

10. "i got a bad feeling about this"

"you're my only hope"

[undeterred]

3. Because the costume is tight..

[Lautremont]

4. Try this experiment:

Place two cinnamon buns on your head. Then, while keeping your head completely still so that the buns don't fall off, try to speak. You'll find that your voice too sounds mannered and stilted! It's one of those things that's so obvious you never even think of it.

But that's the answer. As the movie progresses, she gets used to it, so the "accent" slips back into her normal California-ese.

[derby378]

5. Never sounded English to me - just "princessy"

And please don't be talking smack about Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin. He's my boy.

Besides, you know how many variations of English, Spanish, and Chinese there are on just one little planet - take a single common tongue intergalactic and let's sit back and see how many regional dialects and variations develop over the next 200 years or so.

[Book Lover]

6. Because she was acting with Peter Cushing and mimicking his accent

Once their scenes are done with, she reverts to her flat LA voice.

[SPKrazy]

7. it's a plot

to make us love the british

[hedgehog]

8. No, no, no

When speaking to the Grand Toff, she and he are speaking Ganzoot. Later on, she speaks Hofdis when talking with Solo and Luke. It's like in the movies where you can tell they're speaking French or German bythe way the actors switch accents.

[hickman]

9. Carrie Fisher talked about that once.

I don't remember where or when. She was embarrassed about her attempt at an English accent in the early scenes. The movie was shot in England which would explain all the imperial officers being English.

edit for misspelled Carrie's last name.

[nytemare]

11. They wanted the bad guys to all be British so we would know the

good from the bad. That doesn't explain Obi Wan, though. There is an old saying that most Brit actors play bad guys and butlers, which is true much of the time.

[deucemagnet]

12. It's actually the upper-class accent of Organa.

The fact that it sounds like a garish English accent is purely coincidental. :P