u/Early-Perspective598

In the second dream level in the hotel bar, when they run the Mr Charles bit, the projections all look at Cobb and Fischer when Cobb tells Fischer he is in a dream (as expected), but when Fischer says to Cobb a few lines later “You’re not real,” the projections look away and continue talking to each other. I would’ve thought that this like would get them even more distressed because it’s a continuation of Fischer (the subject) realising that he’s dreaming. Or is it that the projections also believe that Cobb isn’t real and therefore accept him as just another projection and not the dreamer?

Need to share this because it drives me crazy. I have only TWO examples of this that I’ve noticed over the years (Violet in Bridgerton and Bella in Notting Hill) but please tell me that someone else has picked up a slight German-esque twang when hearing these or other actors put on that classic posh, almost received English accent.

My theory is that they’re pinching/forcing their accent so much that it’s turning into the more harsh/hard pronunciation of German, but I’m still baffled. Also German isn’t really what I’d call a pinched accent.

It’s not like these people are just generally bad at doing a posh accent and completely butcher it so it comes out as something new - it’s somehow unintentionally coming out as an EXISTING accent. I even had to google whether either of them were German/Dutch because it was so noticeable to me but others can’t hear it. Thoughts??

(just googled them to check and actually both were born in County Durham if that would have any impact but I think I’m grasping at straws)