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bywandandsword · 7 months

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I'm listening to the Red Dragon audiobook, and the one thing I take issue with is that the narrator gives every other southerner an accent, but not Will Graham. None of the adaptations give him an accent. The man grew up poor in rural Louisiana and spent the first part of his career in New Orleans! He's gonna have some sort of accent!

He can be brilliant profiler that Hannibal is interested in or in love with and be a southerner with a southern accent, I promise!

#LetWillBeSouthern2023 #I know in the beginning of the book it says Will has a tendency to mimic other people's speech patterns in conversation #I do the same thing but it doesn't erase your accent or account for this lack of accent when he's alone or thinking #I don't think it's intentional in all the adaptations but I do think it's the underlying bias in media #that southern accents denote being poor uneducated or stupid #which is of course ridiculous and needs to be challenged #and answer me this dear reader;#would it not have been all the more entertaining to watch Hannibal and Will interact if Will was accented?#Will drawling out verbal parries to Hannibal in his posh Lithuanian accent #And the parallel of Will sounding different than all of his colleagues further marking him as an outsider #a difference that only gets starker when he's scared or impaired or deep in concentration #(Hannibal also is marked this way but his accent garners more respect or regard than Will's)#(the first impression of Will as a hick being added to the list of reasons why some of his colleagues dismiss him initially)#Also also! In the book Will comments that because he grew up poor he has a 'half-buried grudge' against the wealthy #and that resentment could certainly be used as a factor in his initial distrust of Hannibal #I'm just saying there's a ton that can be done with this and all the adaptations miss the opportunity!#Sword speaks #Will Graham #Hannibal #Hannibal Lector #Red Dragon

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