If you want more modern East End dialects, then I would suggest movies with
actors such as Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, or that well known Welsh cockney,
Vinnie Jones. Try "Nil by mouth" or "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".
Colin
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From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...>
From: "Karen Mercedes" <dalila@R...>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
Sent: 12 January 2001 14:48
Subject: Re: [vocalist] British dialects
> If you have a good ear, I would suggest you check some videos out that
will
> enable you to immerse yourself in Cockney dialect (which is what Nancy in
> Oliver spoke). Try the following:
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> OLIVER! - there is a movie of the music, which was quite good
>
> ALFIE - with Michael Caine
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> SYLVIA SCARLETT - with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant; Grant and several
> of the other characters speak with thick Cockney accents
>
> MONA LISA - with Bob Hoskins, who has the accent you want to emulate
>
> PYGMALION - with Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard: Hiller's Eliza Doolittle
> is definitely "high Cockney" before her transformation - as is her father,
> played by Wilfrid Lawson
>
> MY FAIR LADY - Not so much for Audrey Hepburn's attempt at Cockney, but
for
> Stanley Holloway's very realistic Cockney as Alfred Doolittle.
>
> THE LAVENDER HILL MOB - with Alec Guinness, Stanley Hollaway, and others
>
> THE ENTERTAINER - with Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, et al
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> Karen Mercedes
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