John Adams - The Talleyrand Letter

Stephen Dillane & Paul Giamatti

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• Stephen Dillane
• Paul Giamatti
• John Adams

[VivalaTara312]

Stephen Dillane's accent here is quite sonorous :)

[believinginluv]

I love John's laugh at 0:45.

[Trinity61]

@CarolineOskarsson

The American Founders weren't quite aristocratic...more like upper middle class. Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin would have risen to moderate positions in British society, but no further. And Hamilton, the bastard son of a sailor and a prostitute, would have been nothing.

But it is likely they spoke in an accent that more closely resembles the modern English accent than the modern American one.

[bazzatheblue]

@CarolineOskarsson i always assumed Jefferson sounded somewhat like Foghorn Leghorn being as he was a good ol` boy from Virginia,a mint julep drinker,a bit dissapointed to find out he sounds like me.

[CarolineOskarsson]

@bazzatheblue

Not really, the american accent we know today was created much later when immgirants from non english countries came to america and together they created a new accent to speak english. George Washington and the other founders were all of aristrocratic english background and spoke english that way.

[bazzatheblue]

I very much doubt these people spoke in this accent,they were american after all ,ok they were born and brought up in English colonies and of English descent but surely their language was already quite different from the ancestral homeland.

[CDT46]

5th

[LegacyPaintball7]

@lunitedes1 wic period do u has him

[lunitedes1]

@ilikemnms202 Mr. Neeley is very cool and funny

[SenseiDLowe]

I love the camerawork in this scene. It's [purposefully] as unstable as the relationship between Jefferson and Adams.