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Post by Stan on Jan 5, 2018 20:52:04 GMT
One of the charactistics of AWP is the extensive use of numerous different regional accents and dialects.
Cannot recall any earlier programme that did this so well.
Of these Barry is one of the best.
Even when he just says 'alright'
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 5, 2018 20:56:30 GMT
Tim Spall's accent is probably the best I've heard from someone portraying a Brummie.
Gene.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jan 6, 2018 0:42:51 GMT
When I first watched it in the late 80s I presumed that Tim Spall was a real life Brummie & Christopher Fairbank a Scouser, no doubt people from the West Mids & Merseyside might've spotted that they weren't natives but they certainly fooled me.
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Post by Vienna on Jan 6, 2018 11:19:50 GMT
I also thought at the time that Pat Roach was a Bristolian until I found out that he was actually from Birmingham
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Post by Steve Austin on Jan 6, 2018 11:45:28 GMT
When I first watched it in the late 80s I presumed that Tim Spall was a real life Brummie & Christopher Fairbank a Scouser, no doubt people from the West Mids & Merseyside might've spotted that they weren't natives but they certainly fooled me. Me too Arthur
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jan 6, 2018 14:46:25 GMT
I think Jimmy Nail really got the Geordie accent spot on too.
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Post by Stan on Jan 7, 2018 18:05:59 GMT
It's a fairly obvious comment, but Clement and La Frenais made some absolutely excellent casting choices.
Not just AWP, but also Porridge, LL, WHTLL.
Meant that what were already very good scripts were delivered so well and in many cases so memorably.
This applies not just to the main characters, but also supporting roles and minor parts.
Very few scriptwriters have ever achieved such consistency in this area.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Feb 17, 2018 18:09:31 GMT
All the accents are fantastic. My brother and I live about 30 miles apart so there's more contact by text than anything else and we regularly get into exchanges which are literally just quotes from various series, punctuated by clips from youtube or from our phones off the TV and Oz in particular is a regular feature. Barry, too. There are just a few phrases, they're not even substantial enough to be quotes, that get banded around a lot at my parents' house when we go to visit - Oz's "I was only obeying me orders" and, for some reason, Barry's "West Bromwich and District Building Society" (both of course only amusing with correct impersonation!).
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 8, 2018 18:01:07 GMT
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Aug 12, 2018 14:09:40 GMT
Dear Wayne. He's so sweet. Which I'm sure we're not supposed to think but sorry! I can literally watch the Germany series over and over without ever getting bored of it. So many great moments. The characters are all so well constructed, too, I don't feel like you often get that nowadays - or it could just be that this setting lends itself so well to the different characters. They can be so different and that's half of the humour, I guess!
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