Horrible Accents in Films

[Chapppers]

gifdy said:

Oh, and Brian Cox doing an American accent in .....anything

Nope, won't have it. I didn't know he was English til he went on Top Gear.


By the way I liked Brad Pitt's INCOMPREHENSIBLE Irish accent.

[gifdy]

Chapppers said:

gifdy said:

Oh, and Brian Cox doing an American accent in .....anything

Nope, won't have it. I didn't know he was English til he went on Top Gear.


By the way I liked Brad Pitt's INCOMPREHENSIBLE Irish accent.

You. Are. Kidding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T26jz8U5fBU 1:21 for example. He goes through 3 accents in a single sentence

[Bebee]

gifdy said:

JonRB said:

As has been already mentioned:

Sean Connery playing an English Man (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing an Irish Man (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Russian (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Spaniard (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing an American (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Greek (with a Scottish accent)

etc.

Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 12th January 14:15

He washn't Shpanish - he wash Egyptshun !

He recently made friends with Shilpa Shetty! there's mouth full!

[hesnotthemessiah]

skoff said:

hesnotthemessiah said:

skoff said:

Troy - Colin Farrel and the rest of the cast with Irish accents

Sorry.....but wasn't that Alexander?

Oh.....and agree with above Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, a classic. Or was that Moiry Poypans?

Yeah you are right it was Alexander... Only made it about 15 minutes into the film

That's hilarious!.....that's about exactly how long I lasted as well.

[Daniel1]

Has the irish accents in Gangs of New York been mentioned?

[Hugo a Gogo]

Conian said:

Bob Hoskin's Russian accent in Enemy at the Gate was pretty comical, but soon is forgiven when you see Jude Law not even trying to hide his London accent
Cwoor love a duck i'll get on me plates of meat and go shoot some pesky Jerries so I will Mary Poppins!

You do know many foreigners have different languages, they don't just speak English with an accent?
what's more realistic then? real Russians speaking Russian with subtitles for all of us who can't speak Russian??
Law and Hoskins speaking with foreign accents - so we assume their characters couldn't really speak Russian properly?

Imagine Hoskins' character spoke with a common inner-city Moscow accent, and Law's had an accent from a different area of Russia

how could we represent that? Oh I know, by letting them have different accents in English

same applies to Alexander (even though it was crap)

[m444ttb]

mybrainhurts said:

That French policeman in 'Allo 'Allo...

I mean, French accent...no jolly chance, what?

Just checking, but you did know he was meant to be British don't you?!

[Ace-T]

Sean Bean. Doing an English accent. I know, I know he is English I hear you say. Nope, he isn't, he is from Yorkshire. And he can't do an English accent for toffee.

Evidence? The denoument with 007 in the old park and the fight in LOTR in Balins tomb. "They've got a cave troll!". Broadest Yorkshire!

Trace

[y282]

pleased to read the love for highlander. rumours are the remake will have an actual scot playing macleod.

anyway, as said: keanu reeves in draclia. must be the worst. go back and have a listen, seriously. it could curdle fking milk.

[Negative Creep]

Antony Moxey said:

Anthony Hopkins in World's Fastest Indian.

I thought that was a very good Invercargill accent



Anyway, Tango & Cash has the award for worst British accent ever - it's so bad it will leave you open mouthed in astonishment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GYO_z38lvU&fea...


4:10 onwards, contains naughty words

[FourWheelDrift]

gifdy said:

JonRB said:

As has been already mentioned:

Sean Connery playing an English Man (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing an Irish Man (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Russian (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Spaniard (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing an American (with a Scottish accent)
Sean Connery playing a Greek (with a Scottish accent)

etc.

Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 12th January 14:15

He washn't Shpanish - he wash Egyptshun !

He'sh alsho played Arabsh, Morrocansh a Jewish (that doesn't work does it) pianisht (aha!) and Tunishian shailor.

[tractorguy]

y282 said:

pleased to read the love for highlander. rumours are the remake will have an actual scot playing macleod.

There can only be one!!

[Antony Moxey]

Jason Statham's American accent in any film.
Jason Statham's Scottish accent in Mean Machine.

[redleader1]

Green street 2... an american with a usless stab at a cockney accent... Embarrising!!! I threw the DVD in the bin...

And Robbie Coltrain in The World is not enough!!! EYE laddy, there was some scotttish slipping through that russian accent...

And I agree with every one else who mentioned jason stathem's stab at an american attempt...

[Jacobyte]

Negative Creep said:

Antony Moxey said:

Anthony Hopkins in World's Fastest Indian.

I thought that was a very good Invercargill accent

Agreed. At first it may seem odd, but after watching the documentary and hearing Burt Munro speaking, it's clear that Hopkins has done a pretty good job.

[Negative Creep]

Jacobyte said:

Negative Creep said:

Antony Moxey said:

Anthony Hopkins in World's Fastest Indian.

I thought that was a very good Invercargill accent

Agreed. At first it may seem odd, but after watching the documentary and hearing Burt Munro speaking, it's clear that Hopkins has done a pretty good job.

Having visited Invercargill (lovely place) it seemed pretty accurate to me. Apparently Munroe's daughter visited the set one day and Hopkin's impression of her father was so good it reduced her to tears

[Jw Vw]

Danny Dyer's fake London hardman accent - he's really just a weasel. He's an embarassment to me and my fellow Londoners!

[Tony2or4]

Any actor playing a northerner in any film made in the mid-20th century. 'This Sporting Life' and 'Love on the Dole' spring to mind, but there are loads of them: the actors seem to think that if they just flatten all their vowels then it'll make them sound like authentic northerners - from either side of God's Great Barrier, the Pennines.

Northerners just don't talk like that: the accents are much more complex. Makes me want to scream. (Guess which part of the country I come from .)

Edited by Tony2or4 on Thursday 13th January 00:27

[Conian]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Imagine Hoskins' character spoke with a common inner-city Moscow accent, and Law's had an accent from a different area of Russia

how could we represent that? Oh I know, by letting them have different accents in English

yes, buuuuut Hoskins did try to do an accent, and Jude didnt even try and disguise his london twang, so it wasnt different accents representing anything.

[Halb]

Hugo a Gogo said:

how could we represent that? Oh I know, by letting them have different accents in English

Yip, personally I think it's a really good technique. Some people can't get over it, but I prefer the right actor than a silly voice. That said, silly voices creep in everywhere