I have a lot of worldbuilding thoughts about accents in movies - sometimes they clash with representation issues but mostly they don't
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Like how if anything in most settings the Hollywood insistence on standardized speech downplays the diversity that exists IRL
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Maybe not if your story is set in a small isolated town, but definitely if it's the cosmopolitan setting of your average action movie
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And yeah in-universe Star Wars is a setting supposedly millions of times as big as the real world, there should be tons of accents
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And accents work better when they sound natural and lived-in as opposed to something George Lucas made the actor learn phonetically
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(I wasn't surprised to learn Lucas wrote out Jar Jar's dialogue phonetically but I did become unhappier than I already was)
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My headcanon btw is that while the planet Jedha is multiracial, the ethnicity of the builders of Jedha City resembles Han Chinese
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And the original language of the Jedha culture is an analogue of Mandarin Chinese, which is why Chirrut and Baze speak accented "Basic"
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Baze, formerly the "most faithful of the Guardians of the Whills", is less assimilated than Chirrut, hence his Basic being limited
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You could tie stuff into that, like Yoda's affected Object-Subject-Verb sentence order being a trait of spoken Chinese
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