to wonder why C-3PO speaks RP?

[SaintNiChaolas]

According to MiddlingChaoticGirl, lots of robits in American films are Posh British.

Why oh why?

Is a robit a kind of mechanical hobbit perchance?

The geeky part of me remembers that the actor Anthony Daniels was originally asked to play the role like a used car salesman but decided instead to base it in a posh English butler!

Because the actor is English?

His main function is to assist with customs and etiquette (and translate) who is more appropriate than an English butler type?

It makes a change. English male characters are either baddies (or effeminate) in American films. DS once asked me if the Americans all hate the English.

Why is Baghera English and Balloo American?

And as for those Aristocats - they're well confused. The mum has a French accent - well that makes sense as they're in Paris. But the boys are American and their sister has an English accent. How did that happen then?

Why are all the Viking adults Scottish and the children American in "How to Train your Dragon"?

Why does the Russian submarine commander in "Hunt for Red October" have a Scottish accent?

(Not hard to answer that one).

Why is Robin Hood (Prince of Thieves) American?

He doesn't, Star Wars is set a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

Well what does he speak then Cozy? With a galaxy far away accent?

Why shouldn't C-3PO speak RP?

Unless of course estuary English and the ghastly glottal stops are now compulsory...

Shouldn't Bert talk like a Londoner in Mary Poppins?

I've taken over your thread Chaos.

He's a Protocol Droid. His purpose is translation and etiquette - what could be more appropriate than received pronunciation?

I'm more interested in knowing why the Ambassadors in The Phantom Menace have comedy Chinese accents tbh. Or why Watto has a nondescript stereotypical Middle Eastern accent.

Why does a Spaniard who spent his life in Japan speak with a Scottish accent in highlander?

Why does a Scotsman speak with a French accent in highlander?

Why does leonides, king of Sparta, speak with a Scottish accent when he's an ancient Greek?

Come to think of it, just why is Shrek Scottish?