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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Jennifer Senft <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:52:13 -0400
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At 09:15 AM 10/23/96 ES, you wrote:
>Are the accents in "Fargo" accurate?  Oh Yah, you betcha!
>
>Having been born and raised in Minneapolis, I found the Minnesota dialect
>hilariously dead-on, albeit highly exaggerated.  In many films the Texas or
>Southern or New York accents are over the top, and in this case it's the same
>thing - but with an accent that has not been used a million times in other
>films.
 
I'm a New Yorker, from Brooklyn actually.  I mean no slander, but there is
no such thing as an over the top portrayal of certain New York accents....
 
Cheers,
 
Jennifer
 
 
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