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re: Best & Worst Accents In Film
Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:42 pm to stateofplay
Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:42 pm to stateofplay
No one said Tom Cruise in Far and Away?
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Posted on 9/21/20 at 7:02 pm to LuckyTiger
I just remembered a classic one: Michael Caine in Hurry Sundown. Set in post-WWII Georgia (but filmed in Baton Rouge -- there was controversy over the black cast members staying at the then-segregated Bellemont), Caine plays a well-to-do landowner. The problem is his accent comes and goes. Sometimes it's an almost acceptable Southern, sometimes it's straight Cockney, and yet other times it's a mish mash of the two.
Hurry Sundown has quite a few "well ah dee clare" accents, but it's best remembered for a scene where Jane Fonda plays a saxophone like a phallic symbol.
Hurry Sundown has quite a few "well ah dee clare" accents, but it's best remembered for a scene where Jane Fonda plays a saxophone like a phallic symbol.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 7:55 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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Posted on 9/21/20 at 8:03 pm to 225bred
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Daniel Craig’s foghorn leghorn accent in Knives Out was comically bad
I want to believe it was intentionally bad but at the same time there are pompous arse like wright Thompson that do play up their accent like that
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Kevin Spacey horrible Southern Accent's from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and "House of Cards"
This one is 100% a choice. He drifts in and out of it like a politician.
This post was edited on 9/21/20 at 8:05 pm
Posted on 9/21/20 at 8:58 pm to LuckyTiger
The fake Louisiana Accent must be hard to pull off because us natives can sniff that shite out in a 2nd.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 9:05 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Connery in Red October
His Russian did have a brogue rarely heard in Russian.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 9:08 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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Any movie about people in New Orleans.
I thought Joe Pesci did a decent job with the accent for a non-New Orleanian in JFK.
Posted on 9/21/20 at 9:24 pm to LuckyTiger
Worst: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
fricker didn't even try...
fricker didn't even try...
Posted on 9/22/20 at 12:52 am to Big Chipper
All these years later and it’s still fascinating how Robin Hood didn’t have an English accent. Yeah yeah Costner was a big draw at the time but damn.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 2:32 am to Big Chipper
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fricker didn't even try...
Funnily enough, the opposite happened.
The director didn't want him to even bother with an accent, but Costner insisted. The final product was a result of him slowly giving up on it during filming.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 2:40 am to LuckyTiger
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Connery in Red October
His Russian did have a brogue rarely heard in Russian.
I give him a pass. If you go to Scotland you can barely understand anyone. It's gutteral, in their DNA...would be hard to suppress it for a role when you are especially trying to adopt another accent.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 7:40 am to NOSTRODAMUS
Dick van Dyke? Wrong
Keanau Reeves in Dracula
Keanau Reeves in Dracula
Posted on 9/22/20 at 8:20 am to GreenRockTiger
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Lucky you for having so much time to watch everything that comes out on tv and to have every channel
Maybe I'm just older and had cable?
Posted on 9/23/20 at 12:04 pm to GeauxTigerTM
Lol - showtime is a premium channel with my former cable company - I wasn’t going to pay for that
And perhaps you are older - but I was an adult when Tudors came out - not sure if I’m an adult now
But really, I didn’t know about Tudors until I looked up the actors in the Man of Steel - I haven’t watched any adult tv since I’ve had kids anyway
And perhaps you are older - but I was an adult when Tudors came out - not sure if I’m an adult now
But really, I didn’t know about Tudors until I looked up the actors in the Man of Steel - I haven’t watched any adult tv since I’ve had kids anyway
Posted on 9/23/20 at 12:49 pm to LuckyTiger
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best:
The Merovingian.
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worst:
Mark Strong in Kingsman because he's actually British, yet he kept going in and out of the accent.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 12:58 pm to LuckyTiger
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Posted on 9/23/20 at 12:58 pm to The Torch
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The fake Louisiana Accent must be hard to pull off because us natives can sniff that shite out in a 2nd.
Because it's the accent you know the best. Someone from New York would say the same, Boston, etc.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 3:48 pm to LuckyTiger
Bad: Costner in Thirteen Days.
Good: Kevin Kline in Fierce Creatures. It is hard to find an American that can pull off a good Australian accent- they often sound cockney- but Kline pulled it off.
Good: Kevin Kline in Fierce Creatures. It is hard to find an American that can pull off a good Australian accent- they often sound cockney- but Kline pulled it off.
Posted on 9/23/20 at 5:17 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
I thought Brad Pitt’saccent in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button was on point
This post was edited on 9/24/20 at 10:24 am
Posted on 9/23/20 at 5:28 pm to LuckyTiger
I’ve always thought RDJ’s English accent was on point as Holmes. As well as all of the members of Spinal Tap.
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