James Nelson Smith

I believe that American directors deliberately go for thicker than natural accents, the same as they do for regional American accents, because they believe if the accent is not overdone the average American viewer is too stupid to realize that the story takes place somewhere that they may not have been. This is why everyone depicted as coming from the south has a thicker southern accent than any typical southerner you're likely to run across.

Amazing and funny how much resistance and prejudice there seemed to be against DSLRs a mere 4 years ago, which ironically mirrors the exact same attitudes you saw from film enthusiasts against digital filmmaking in years prior, and that we're seeing now with adopters of 4K toward mere HD cameras that are only months old. It truly seems that the more technology improves the less it becomes about what you're trying to shoot, and more about what you're shooting it on.