ray_afraid said:
I’m pretty impressed by the Tarkin in R1. […] I bought it! Not as Peter Cushing, but as the character of Tarkin.It’s apparently true that most men are focused mainly on visuals and technical details. That’s what we read all over the net, “CGI this, CGI that”. For me the biggest deparature from original Tarkin/Cushing was the voice… oh, how I missed his rrr’s 😉 …a distinct accent from a person born 100 years ago.
This is a very good point. It’s also why I think a lot of people were thrown by the Old Indy bookends in the TV versions of the Young Indy Chronicles: the actor who played Old Indy was a Canadian born during WWI, which resulted in an extremely different accent from Harrison Ford’s much more modern-American delivery.
Such a voice wasn’t wrong for someone born in Indy’s era, but it was different enough to break the immersion for people who expected Indiana Jones to sound like Harrison Ford. Something to consider when contemplating future CGI zombies in SW.