he played a Jack White-esque producer/musician in Nashville. I find him distractingly handsome normally but he seems so out of place in GoT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
He's doing an OK job as far as I'm concerned. It's more an issue of the decision to not make him look anything like what the character looked like last season.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
I mean they go through such lengths with sets and costume and everything to make everything as convincing as possible that it's strange that they wouldn't apply that same dedication to a casting change.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:29 (nine years ago) link
At least the old daario was a badass and somewhat of an interesting character.
This new guy picks flowers and follows her around like a lost puppy. Horrible.
― Dreamland, Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
http://img.pandawhale.com/post-41665-Daario-Naharis-Deal-With-It-gi-sSxB.gif
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
new Daario looks a bit like that guy from Interpol. I had forgotten about what old Daario looked like. Neither of them have dyed blue beard prongs. It's maybe-not-too-interesting, but a bit interesting, that a couple of the female leads have dyed hair to fit their character descriptions but none of the men seem to
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 02:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I get the feeling that the previous dude's departure was rather abrupt and they just had no time.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:06 (nine years ago) link
It only takes me the morning to shave.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
Dinklage's hair is dyed. Dany's brothers was too wasn't it?
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, true, he was in the BBC Robin Hood tv show with dark hair
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
i agree that it's just weird that they didnt even bother to give him the same (no) facial hair
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:25 (nine years ago) link
Maybe in the world of the show he just woke up one day and was a different guy, Lost Highway-style
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
The whole show is just the elaborate guilt-trip fantasy of some Westerosi convict
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
lost king's road
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Directed by Davos Lynch
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 8 May 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
"I'm inside your keep."
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, May 8, 2014 9:43 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this has already happened on this show, Jaqen H'ghar style
― mizzell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
It's all in the head of Ned Stark, a la Owl Creek.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Still going to get beheaded, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
this is a particular hobbyhorse of mine but its insane to me that they have a DUTCH actor for new daario and they make him use an english/westerosi accent
― max, Thursday, 8 May 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
max, did you ever see that tv show Borgia? It was interesting in that the actors were from all over and accents varied widely
― sarahell, Thursday, 8 May 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
as if this show gives a fuck about accents when they have two separate families where nobody has the same accent
― gyac, Thursday, 8 May 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yeah that is endlessly amusing to me
― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 May 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
it gives just enough of a fuck that its bizarre that it doesnt just actually give a whole fuck
― max, Friday, 9 May 2014 01:18 (nine years ago) link
it rubs the lotion on its skin
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 9 May 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
this is why Aidan Gillen's ongoing meta-commentary on the essentially arbitrary nature of the accents in Game of Thrones is so ingenious
― Number None, Friday, 9 May 2014 07:59 (nine years ago) link
Now I wish McNulty would make an appearance
― 龜, Friday, 9 May 2014 08:00 (nine years ago) link
he was their first choice for Mance Rayder!
― Clay, Friday, 9 May 2014 08:47 (nine years ago) link
Not to derail too much, but I recently saw the film Grand Budapest Hotel, and one thing I appreciated about it was that even though it was about some imaginary eastern European country, they made absolutely zero effort to give the various actors some kind of pseudo European accents. American actors spoke with American accents, British actors with British accents, etc. I was struck by how unusual it is for a movie to do this and how compelled directors are to impose some kind of accent logic that rarely holds up under scrutiny.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Friday, 9 May 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
Accent logic in Thrones is o_O not because people from Dorn speak with really obviously Spanish accents and people from Winterfell have vaguely northern accents (on the whole), but because people who grew up in the same town or even within the same family have wildly different ways of speaking.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Friday, 9 May 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Did I ever tell you guys about the weird little daydream I had about Tyrion Lannister looking at a picture of himself and remarking faintly 'Peter Dinklage...'
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Friday, 9 May 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
It's just the way Lubitsch used to do it
― Number None, Friday, 9 May 2014 13:44 (nine years ago) link
That reminds me of universal monster films where they didn't even establish a proper time and region, I quite liked that mishmash. Although Draculas Daughter has some Scottish characters played by Americans who give up very early even trying to maintain an accent.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 May 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
i know it's been discussed before - but were there hints of Littlefeather's Scottish-ish(?) accent before this season?
Was there a logic to it coming on in force now? Like now that he's out of King's Landing he can speak freely? But then he grew up with the Tully's, and none of them talk like that.
― brio, Friday, 9 May 2014 15:44 (nine years ago) link
i think the actor just has a hard time with accents seriously.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Aidan Gillen is Irish.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
should have just stuck with his Wire accent
― brio, Friday, 9 May 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
I would be game to see more of the Wire cast on this show anyhow.
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Lester particularly
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Snoop.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
"How my hair look, Bran?"
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, 9 May 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
I love Annie from Treme to be in this. Maybe she'd dress the same as when she played violin in Jethro Tull.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
let's change the thread title to Accent Talk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 May 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Could be a Talking Dead-style aftershow, all the latest accent rumours and fan theories about accents.
― brio, Friday, 9 May 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
― Call the Doctorb, the B is for Brownstein (Leee), Friday, May 9, 2014 12:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 9 May 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
I got the weird shadow ghost thing, you got the king's guard, it's all in the game, yo
― sarahell, Friday, 9 May 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
I think the accent thing is deliberate ("acting!"), that he's tryna get in deep to the LF character and that he's just made a hash of it because his motivations are known only to him
or he just sucks. but srsly, it's not even remotely the same, you'd think someone would've delicately pointed it out
― gbx, Friday, 9 May 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHIykid21j4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― Dreamland, Friday, 9 May 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I never thought he sounded English in s1 though? It just sounded like a more neutralised version off his natural accent (he doesn't have a really strong accent though).
Easily his worst accent moment was this scene at 2.19, awful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4bOa_WD0nE
― gyac, Friday, 9 May 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
I'm just curious - would some Britishes like to break down all the different characters accents
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 May 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link