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Best & Worst Accents In Film

Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:13 pm
Posted by LuckyTiger
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:13 pm
My choices for best:

Leo’s Rhodesian in Blood Diamond

Al Pacino’s Cuban in Scarface


My choices for worst:

Ben Affleck’s Aussie in Armageddon

Dennis Quaid’s Cajun in Big Easy
Posted by NOSTRODAMUS
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:19 pm to
Dick Van Dyke’s British in Mary Poppins. It will always be the #1 worst.
Posted by atlau
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:22 pm to
Worst is James Van Der Beek in Varsity Blues.
Posted by SportsGuyNOLA
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:31 pm to
Any movie about people in New Orleans.

People not from here are incapable of sounding like people from here.
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:36 pm to
Van Der Beek and Van Dyke are two good ones.

Off the top of my head, Best:
Brad Pitt in Snatch
Forest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland
Margot Robbie in Wolf of Wall Street

Worst:
Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
Angelina Jolie in Alexander
Kevin Costner's Robin Hood


Not a film, but Lucas Black's New Orleans accent is the worst fricking thing I've ever heard in my life. Like nails on a chalkboard. That one is the worst for me, easily.
This post was edited on 9/19/20 at 10:02 pm
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:41 pm to
Pattinson in The King

That French accent was terribad.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:41 pm to


He sounds like a cartoon.
Posted by Tigers2010
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:42 pm to
Italian friend of Leo in Titanic was awful
This post was edited on 9/19/20 at 9:43 pm
Posted by LesnarF5
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 9:45 pm to
Worse: is Dennis Quade in The Big Easy



Best : Brad Pitt in Snatch
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 10:14 pm to
quote:

Dennis Quaid’s Cajun in Big Easy


First one that comes to mind everytime


Cher
Posted by Cousin Key
Member since Dec 2017
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 10:20 pm to
Worst - I’ll nominate Nicholas Cage for his Alabama accent in Con Air. I grew up in Alabama and have heard accents from every part of the state. None of them sounded even remotely like that.

That still never kept me from enjoying the movie though. It did give us this gif after all.

Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 10:31 pm to
Van damme’s louisiana accent.
Posted by SCLibertarian
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 10:46 pm to
Best hands down is Michael Parks as Esteban Vihaio in Kill Bill Volume 2.
Posted by CGSC Lobotomy
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 10:50 pm to
No one mentioned Tom Hardy's Bane accent?
Posted by Kafka
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Member since Jul 2007
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 11:17 pm to
Worst: Robert Duvall's British accent in The 7% Solution

When I was a young teen I saw Joanne Woodward in Faulkner's Sound & The Fury I was very impressed, "Finally somebody doing a decent Southern accent". I didn't know she was from GA and went to LSU.

I like Mitchum's in Night Of The Hunter. Listen to the way he stresses certain words (in a way few other actors would), as in the jail cell scene: "Ah smuggled it in raht under the noses o' them guards!"

Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 11:19 pm to
quote:

Dick Van Dyke’s British in Mary Poppins. It will always be the #1 worst.
It's still a great performance
Posted by vodkacop
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2008
7855 posts
Posted on 9/19/20 at 11:27 pm to
quote:

Dennis Quaid’s Cajun in Big Easy


Coming post exactly this.
Posted by vodkacop
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2008
7855 posts
Posted on 9/19/20 at 11:30 pm to
quote:

Not a film, but Lucas Black's New Orleans accent is the worst fricking thing I've ever heard in my life. 



Weeellll thats cuz he aint from New Orleans. He's from Alabama. On the show and IRL.
Posted by Tiger1242
Member since Jul 2011
31927 posts
Posted on 9/19/20 at 11:47 pm to
quote:

People not from here are incapable of sounding like people from here.

Says anyone who has ever been from anywhere
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 1:13 am to
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Dennis Quaid’s Cajun in Big Easy,.

We have a winner!
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