Do the Chris Nolan Batman movies have a unique Gotham accent?
I cannot place American accents particularly well, so this is not intuitive to me based on watching the Christopher Nolan Batman movies.
Do the cast use a particular accent to place themselves in the (fictional) Gotham City? Certainly Gary Oldman, who is from London, England, would have to deliberately affect an accent of one kind or another. Is there any evidence that a particular accent was chosen or synthesised to represent Gotham? Would this be obvious to U.S. natives where Gotham is supposed to be?
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I can't find any specific references from the actors about how they chose their accents, but it definitely sounds to me like it's supposed to be somewhere between a New York and Chicago accent (so, broadly Northeastern American). I think that it's easiest to see this in the Joker Mob Scene and when Dent and Gordon are talking to Batman.
Generally, New York accents have more raised and tense vowels and is non-rhotic (dropping r's in the middle and end of words). You see this most with the mob bosses and a bit with Harvey Dent. Chicago/Inland Northern Accents also have more raised vowels, but they tend to extend them a bit more and make them diphthongs. I think Gary Oldman is doing more of a Chicago accent. The Joker kind of blends them together, which definitely makes conveys how he's a more chaotic figure than many of the other characters.
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