Nine times out of 10 I cringe when an actor is attempting an accent--often a Southern one--in a film. They usually get it wrong. Hootingly, eye-rollingly wrong.
Such was the case with Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds and appears to be so with Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island.
The result? A distracted viewer.
The same is true for a reader.
The right words have an authentic voice. Pick the wrong words or string them toegether in artifical ways and authenticity suffers.
That's why reading aloud is so valuable. Your ear can hear a clunker.
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