Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Netflix' "The Outlaw King" is good History and outstanding Cinema,

with, may I just say, a perfectly acceptable American, Chris Pine, playing Robert the Bruce. Objections, such as have been raised, to the ineradicably Standard American phonology of Mr. Pine's speech, are, in my opinion, ill-founded:  Robert the Bruce's dates are 1277 to 1329;
he is known to have spoken Norman French, Gaelic and Latin—None of which, like Mr Pine's American English, was in the least degree, non-rhotic.

And most especially do we give thanks on prayerfully bended knee to whatever divinities are in charge of such things that Chris Pine's Robert de Bruce is nothing like Mel Gibson.

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