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Let's Talk Daniel Day-Lewis American Accent

Posted on 12/16/16 at 4:45 pm
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 4:45 pm
Why recently has he had such a strange, almost cartoonish American accent when playing one.

The only American accent that sounds real or natural is the one he uses in Last of the Mohicans... It's basically perfect, but every other time they're all pretty outlandish and seem forced.

Lincoln, just strange

Plainview - way over the top cartoonish

Bill the Butcher - even more strange and cartoonish than Plainview, almost didn't even sound American.
This post was edited on 12/16/16 at 4:50 pm
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 4:46 pm to
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Lincoln, just strange


This was "supposedly" pretty accurate

Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
12584 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:33 pm to
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Bill the Butcher - even more strange and cartoonish than Plainview, almost didn't even sound American.


Seriously? Five Points in New York City in the mid 19th century? With all the recently arriving immigrants that is not going to sound like people talk now, even an "American". I thought he did a great job with the accent.
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 5:57 pm to
quote:

Bill the Butcher - even more strange and cartoonish than Plainview, almost didn't even sound American.




Can you imagine Bill the Butcher with a limey British accent or a southern twang? His accent was perfect for that movie.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
90812 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 6:00 pm to
quote:


Plainview - way over the top cartoonish


Well - this was heavily based on John Huston and it wasn't bad as an homage to him.
Posted by blzr
Saratoga
Member since Mar 2011
30179 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 6:01 pm to
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Bill the Butcher - even more strange and cartoonish than Plainview, almost didn't even sound American.


umm was it suppose to sound American?
Posted by KosmoCramer
Member since Dec 2007
77060 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 6:20 pm to
There will be Blood?
Posted by JombieZombie
Member since Nov 2009
7687 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 6:58 pm to
He's a great character actor and he's playing caricatures in There Will Be Blood and Gangs of New York. You don't have to play straight all the time.

quote:

How bout a regular, American accent...


What's your definition of this, exactly?
This post was edited on 12/16/16 at 7:11 pm
Posted by OWLFAN86
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Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 12/16/16 at 7:57 pm to
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Lincoln, just strange



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Posted by Decker
Member since Nov 2015
3439 posts
Posted on 12/16/16 at 8:43 pm to
He killed it in every one of those roles. This seems like one those posts that's contrarian just for the sake of contrariness.
Posted by Geauxdhan08
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2015
357 posts
Posted on 12/17/16 at 5:29 am to
Russell crowe's historically correct accent in 'Gladiator' has to be one of your favorites, as it is one of mine as well.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
36311 posts
Posted on 12/17/16 at 9:43 am to
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Bill the Butcher


Wasn't he not too far removed from getting off the boat?
Posted by ZekeTheTeke
Member since Sep 2014
1245 posts
Posted on 12/17/16 at 9:48 am to
You shut your whore mouth.
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