He Could Look Past Robin Having a Posh Accent, But Then...
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Indeed, this has been a silly obsession since Kevin Costner. A modern British accent is as anachronistic as an American one. Robin hood wouldve sounded more French to us than anything.
Its one of those funny little pieces of culture where people have this idea in their head of how things "should sound" and its completely nonsensical.
Its like people who think God just speaks like "why hast thou cometh hither?" because the KJV influenced him or somehow.
The line from Men in Tights where he mentions that he speaks with a British accent is pretty funny though. Good point
Given the modern British accent developed quite late, societally-speaking, a Louisianian-sounding Robin Hood would actually quite likely be closer to the real sounding one than the blended High British he normally gets. But it's about truthiness, what FEELS right in the story.