We need to talk about Russell Crowe’s accent in Thor (and everything else) | karlkwin
might be one of the more silly and comedic offerings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, but it’s Russell Crowe’s Zeus that stands out as perhaps the most bewildering character the superhero franchise has thrown up.
Dressed in form-fitting gold chest armour and a white pleated skirt, Crowe plays the god of gods as a preening narcissist.Giving Crowe’s Zeus affectations, such as his effeminate voice, that have historically been used to project a stereotype of male queerness was surely a risky choice in this era of instant internet outrage.
Crowe’s Grecian accent, though, is out there on its own. Not since the 1980s heyday of Mark Mitchell’s Con the Fruiterer has an Anglo-Aussie so boldly thrown caution to the wind by pretending to be Greek. Crowe doesn’t hedge his bets either. It wouldn’t come as a surprise to hear his Zeus promise to destroy the world in “a cuppla days”, because even though it’s “bewdiful”, humankind “doesn’t madda” much.
But even if you accept that as a guide, how do you assess Crowe’s stab at Zeus? Is it punching up at ancient mythic Olympians, or punching down at post-war Greek-Australian immigrants?Back in 2010, some people detected a hint of Irish in what was meant to be a northern English drawl inBut when BBC Radio 4 presenter Mark Lawson quizzed him on it, Crowe responded “you’ve got dead ears, mate, if you think that’s an Irish accent”.
“A child born in Barnsley, on his father’s death taken to France at age six, travels across Europe to the Middle East on foot, fights in the third crusade for Richard I alongside men from all parts of Britain, Ireland and France, and finally returns to England a man in his 40s,” he wrote. Which presumably accounted for any slight wavering in dialect anyone with dead ears might have imagined – wrongly, of course – they could detect.
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