Peaky Blinders (TV)

[rich p]

I'm a Brummie and I need subtitles sometimes........... some of the accents are so bad!

I think you mentioned that

 

[AndyRM]

Apparently it's a hit in the USA. Wonder if they have subtitles?

Probably. But then there's bits of The Wire I've had to turn them on for so it works both ways.

As for Tommy's vaguely shonky accent, I reckon that's an affectation from his time in the war when he'd have been surrounded by different accents and slang.

If awards were being given out for shite accents I reckon Sam Neill would win. Just for managing to fit every vowel, twice, into "Crown".

 

[Vidor06]

Probably. But then there's bits of The Wire I've had to turn them on for so it works both ways.

As for Tommy's vaguely shonky accent, I reckon that's an affectation from his time in the war when he'd have been surrounded by different accents and slang.

If awards were being given out for shite accents I reckon Sam Neill would win. Just for managing to fit every vowel, twice, into "Crown".

The thing with Sam Neill is that he is originally from Northern Ireland. His accent should be considerably better. He does like to anunciate.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is Noddy Holder in it, must be as he's from Birmingham, and he's got the clobber...

 

[Cubist]

'Wale' is Black Country....not Birmingham.
Carrott should know better, I went to the same school as him.

He used to live about 1/2 a mile from me. The sketch he used to do about the cottage with the tyre marks on the roof and being on waving terms with airline pilots.

 

[Dirk]

Is Noddy Holder in it, must be as he's from Birmingham, and he's got the clobber...

Noddy Holder is from Walsall, not Birmingham.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Ill have to watch it now...

 

[Dirk]

[QUOTE 4268049, member: 45"]His accent is pretty good. He sounds like my gran, and she grew up in twenties Birmingham. Apparently they did a fair bit of research into how the East Birmingham accent would have sounded back then rather than trying to do a Tony Butler.[/QUOTE]
I would say that Arthur, the brother, does the best job with the accent.
I had to look the actor up and was suprised to see that he's from South London. He sounds just like one of my Dads old mates from Small Heath.
He could have fooled me, if I'd bumped into him in real life.

 

[Fnaar]

Is Noddy Holder in it, must be as he's from Birmingham, and he's got the clobber...

He wasn't in this episode. Maybe he was at home with a kipper tie.

 

[nickyboy]

Noddy Holder is from Walsall, not Birmingham.

That's the same place

My rule of thumb is when you head down the M6 as soon as you hit the nightmare congestion....that's Birmingham. So Walsall's definitely "in"

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I went to see a band in Wolverhampton (which is a suburb of B'Ham) a while back, when they finished this guy in front of me was shouting moo-ah moo-ah, which we realised after a while was 'more' in English.

We use moo-ah now in our house.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 4268409, member: 45"]If Brum did the Manc thing of pretending that nearby places were theirs just to boost their egos, the Black Country is indeed Greater Birmingham.

Brummies don't need to do that though. We just are.[/QUOTE]

You forgot the word 'nobbers' from the end of that last sentence.

 

[Dirk]

For what it's worth; Wolverhampton is a city in its own right.
Walsall is a town separate from Birmingham.
The Black Country does not include Birmingham.
HTH.

 

[Fnaar]

I watched it on catch up, but fell asleep half way through. Will watch again later

 

[Haitch]

Interesting piece on the fact and fiction of the Peaky Blinders on the History Girls Blog earlier this week:

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.nl/2016/05/peaky-blinders-fact-or-fiction-by.html