Accents
Who do you think gave the worst/best fake accent in a movie?
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Any American giving an Irish accent is always funny.
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own and Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away are hilarious. Kevin Costner's English accent tops the lot though. |
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Bob Hoskins did a great American accent in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Never even knew he was British as a kid.
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I love it when Sean Bean tries an American accent though...
He's got to be the worst. |
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Most times a white actor tries to do a Hispanic accent is laughable. The only exception I can think of is Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez in Aliens. I thought she was Hispanic for over ten years.
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Anything Daniel Day-Lewis does is great.
Russell Crowe's unintentional slightly Irish accent in Robin Hood is funny, if you haven't seen this already listen to his reaction when being questioned about it in a radio interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-6ZjlGuBU "You've got dead ears mate" "Bollocks" :D |
Originally Posted by The Rodent (Post 887389)
Any American giving an Irish accent is always funny.
Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own and Tommy Lee Jones in Blown Away are hilarious. Kevin Costner's English accent tops the lot though. |
Oh yeah how about English great Laurence Olivier trying to play a Russian Jew in the remake of the Jazz Singer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aN0Ui_hIQw |
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Bit off-topic but Americans really can't speak Russian. :D
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Originally Posted by Daniel M (Post 887399)
Russell Crowe's unintentional slightly Irish accent in Robin Hood is funny, if you haven't seen this already listen to his reaction when being questioned about it in a radio interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-6ZjlGuBU "You've got dead ears mate" "Bollocks" :D |
Originally Posted by The Gunslinger45 (Post 887397)
Most times a white actor tries to do a Hispanic accent is laughable.
Since Portugal and Brazil speak Portuguese, while Spain and the rest of Latin America speak Spanish, there are two clearly distinct accents associated with Hispanic peoples. Just rephrase it for: when Americans and non-Spanish European actors tries to do a Spanish accent is laughable.
The only exception I can think of is Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez in Aliens. I thought she was Hispanic for over ten years.
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Spain and Latin American countries each have multiple accents, so it can get complicated.
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Originally Posted by Guaporense (Post 887421)
How about a white Hispanic? You should know that there are millions of white people in Latin America. Also, Hispanic also designates the populations of Portugal and Spain, which are European (thus, white) countries.
Since Portugal and Brazil speak Portuguese, while Spain and the rest of Latin America speak Spanish, there are two clearly distinct accents associated with Hispanic peoples. Just rephrase it for: when Americans and non-Spanish European actors tries to do a Spanish accent is laughable. Oh, she isn't? Discovered this now, though that's because I don't really care much about the ethnic origins of specific actors. |
Originally Posted by Guaporense (Post 887421)
Oh, she isn't? Discovered this now, though that's because I don't really care much about the ethnic origins of specific actors. |
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Heston didn't do an accent; they just darkened his skin.
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Originally Posted by mark f (Post 887426)
Heston didn't do an accent; they just darkened his skin.
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I'd say it's a given that there isn't really one set "accent" for each country or ethnicity so I really don't see much point in Guaporense's post.
Here in the U.S., for example, there are many different accents among the English-speaking, American born citizens. I'm born and raised in California and have a distinctly different accent than an American who was born and raised in, say, Tennessee. |
Originally Posted by daniel m (Post 887399)
anything daniel day-lewis does is great.
Russell crowe's unintentional slightly irish accent in robin hood is funny, if you haven't seen this already listen to his reaction when being questioned about it in a radio interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-6zjlgubu "you've got dead ears mate" "bollocks" :d |
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Sorta speaking of Orson Welles, his Irish accent in Lady From Shanghai is ridiculous, as is Pacino's Cuban accent in Scarface. They do add some humor to the movies though. :)
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It used to be Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins, closely followed by Connery's 'Irish' accent in The Untouchables, however, since 2007 we have a new winner.
http://img2-3.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic...oceans13_l.jpg An accent so bad, they, apparently, made it into a gimmick for the next film. This said, any time a British, usually English, actor has to do an 'British' accent, it's always horrible. This seems to be particularly true with television. |
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