There is a relatively small matter I’d like views on: accents in the film. I think Boyega sounds much more engaging in his natural accent. Do you think it would have been better for him to speak naturally?
I actually thought that his fake American accent was better her than in TFA. Not sure if that’s just me or the overall acting being more convincing, but those are my two cents on that.
And what about the southern-accented alien (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, apparently) at the Casino who reported Finn and Rose to the police? And Tim Hardy was to be to be a southern-accented Stormtrooper in a scene that was cut. Are certain accents, like Southern, too specific to feel right in Star Wars?
I don’t see how “southern” is a specific accent. I mean, it’s an accent like all others with gradations and a large number of speakers. I don’t see any problems with it… and, accents probably have whole different meanings in the galaxy than in our Earth.
I’m a northerner so what sounds normal to me is different than in other parts of the country. But there is a “Standard American” which sounds a whole lot like what is spoken in most parts of the country, including much of the north. Hearing an alien with a Minnesota accent would feel odd to me, nothing against Minnesotans.
In a similar vein, I wonder what people think of Nien Nunb when they can understand the Kenyan languages he speaks.