Ned Kelly trailer

[amezri]

Finally watched it. I agree that it looks interesting and I hope it comes to the States, but..

Did anyone else notice something weird with the speed of the sound (and video) track? Two of the guys sound like munchkins (especially at the end when one says, "Where will you go, Ned?"), and Heath sounds a bit off, even with the phoney accent.

Here's hoping it is a badly encoded trailer - otherwise the high-pitched Irish boys might put me off the movie.

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

Heath, with a phony accent? What were they, Irish? I thought Ned Kelly was Australian...

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[amezri.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that Ned Kelly was Australian as well, but Heath's got an Irish accent here.

[sg1padawan.livejournal.com]

Ned Kelly was Irish-Australian... he was born in Australia, but his family background was Irish settlers (???), if memory serves...

...it's been an AWFUL long time since I did 'Australian History' in years 7 & 8 at high school. LOL

Nope, wait, I just checked. His father (John) was from Tipperary, Ireland, and was originally sent to Tassie (Tasmania) for 7 years for stealing. After he served his time, he crossed the Bass Strait (?? My Aussie Geography stinks, too LMAO) to Port Phillip in Victoria. :)

And here ends todays dodgy Aussie History & Geography lesson.

I think I need to go back to school. *snicker*

[fyrdrakken]

The goddes and I were sitting here kicking it around and concluded that we didn't know if Ned Kelly were an Irish immigrant to Australia or not. (Tragically, Australian history isn't covered in Texas high schools. "Actually, not much of any history is covered in Texas high schools!" The Goddess notes.) Now I'm wondering how thinly settled the area must have been while Ned was growing up (or else how many of the settlers must have been Irish), because most second-generation immigrants I've known have the local accent rather than their parents'...

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[sg1padawan.livejournal.com]

Hm, never having been to Victoria, I'm not really sure. I know that a great chunk of people in Australia during that time were convicts, ex-convicts, or English and Irish settlers, but other than that... *shrug*

Isn't that appalling?? I don't even know history from my own country from 200 years ago! But if you ask me something on Ancient Egypt from 5000 years ago, I could possibly tell you. LOL

[fyrdrakken]

Well, I'd be the first to admit that whoever it is making this movie no doubt knows lots more about Ned Kelly than I do. And the modern Australian accent no doubt took a couple hundred years of mingling settlers to develop. So I'll just let it alone for now and go see the movie when it comes out. (I mean, a crap accent didn't make Hugh Jackman any less watchable in Swordfish, now did it?)