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Originally posted by OleMissGlitter
I am from the South, born and raised and living in a very Southern town now, Oxford, MS. I felt the accents were very good....
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In a sense, this gets at the root of point I was trying to make. Many people (and especially many actors) who are not from the South seem think there is one Southern accent,which is usually a Deep South (Mississippi or Atlanta, e.g.) accent. Some might recognize two accents -- what might be called a cultured accent and a redneck accent. In fact, there are a whole bunch of differents accents.
Listen to someone like Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton, or watch "Coal Miner's Daughter," and you'll get a much better idea of how the mountain folk in "Cold Mountain" ought to sound. I think breathesgelatin is right -- anyone familiar with the North Carolina mountains would find the accents in "Cold Mountain" to miss the mark by a wide margin.