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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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 Posted - 09/06/2007 : 06:36:45
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Originally posted by AIRBOLT
I read that Poppy Montgomery was australian but i thought Anthony La
Paglia was the real deal but he's from Adelaide! Nice Job.
Funny thing about Anthony LaPaglia - when I saw him in Lantana I was sure that he was doing a poor Australian accent - until I found out he was Australian. Shows how little I know.
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 16:00:37
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On Southern accents, Joanne Woodward famously said she spent twenty years losing her Southern accent, then the next twenty playing nothing but Southerners! |
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ragingfluff 
"Currently lost in Canada"
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 19:45:31
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Much as I enjoyed 'ocean's 11', can someone please explain what was with Don Cheadle's bad Cockney accent (complete with awful rhyming slang; what did he do, watch repeats of MINDER?). I found that the one distracting element in a film I otherwise liked a lot.
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 20:42:35
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Speaking of Renee Zelwegger, I am consistently amazed that she, a native Texan, nailed her British accent for Bridget Jones's Diary
Sort of. It's hard to describe this one accurately - the accent certainly feels authentic, but no actual people speak that way. This is what is especially impressive - the character has her own idiosyncratic accent without it coming across as the actor just doing a bad job. Anyway, it definitely couldn't be called a 'London accent'. |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 07:46:21
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
Speaking of Renee Zelwegger, I am consistently amazed that she, a native Texan, nailed her British accent for Bridget Jones's Diary
Sort of. It's hard to describe this one accurately - the accent certainly feels authentic, but no actual people speak that way. This is what is especially impressive - the character has her own idiosyncratic accent without it coming across as the actor just doing a bad job. Anyway, it definitely couldn't be called a 'London accent'.
That's okay. Nobody in the USA actually has an accent like Hugh Laurie uses on "House".
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 09/24/2007 : 09:11:38
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Hmm, let's see. I thought Renee Zellweger's accent in Cold Mountain sounded just like the woman who lives up the street, who is from the south, so I'd say she nailed uneducated backwoods North Carolina fairly well. On the other hand, I fairly much just wanted to slap Nicole Kidman all the way through it. I'm not sure what accent she was trying, but it missed, nevertheless. Not to mention the whininess of her character overall. Jude Law didn't bother me so much, since he rarely spoke anyway.
For as much as he says the accent is terribly hard work, Hugh Laurie's American accent, while what is it supposed to be?? New Jersey?? misses New Jersey, it sounds like anyone I talk to around here on a daily basis. East Central Indiana/West Central Ohio tends to have a sound of its own. Really though, he doesn't miss often with it. There are days when I feel just a tad smug about knowing who Laurie was 10 years ago.
I wasn't a fan of Daniel Day-Lewis's accent, or sometimes lack thereof, in Gangs of New York. It came and went and it seemed as if during some of his bigger speeches, he made a concerted effort to widen out and make the As (as in AND) as nasally as possible, then forget about doing so in other speeches. Then again, I was equally unimpressed with Leonardo Di Caprio and Cameron Diaz in that as well. It's all quite weird, since I actually liked the film.
I haven't seen Snatch, but I did like Brad Pitt's Irish accent in The Devil's Own. (I've got my own issues with Brad Pitt these days as it is. I miss the Pitt of 10-12 years ago, when he was still establishing himself as a major talent. He turned in solid performances then, as if he were still hungry. These days, he's just doing "Brad Pitt in a movie" in the things I see. I miss the Kalifornia, 12 Monkeys, Se7en Pitt of the past.)
One person who really slipped in and caught a lot of people, including me, by surprise is Mark Addy. His accent is a solid General American one and spot on. He played an American in Still Standing opposite of Jamie Gertz on TV for around 5 years and no one would have ever known he wasn't from here. I thought he was doing a passable British accent in The Full Monty and A Knight's Tale and then read he had moved back home to Great Britain. He was so understated, it was amazing. Another TV actor who got credit for a passable accent is James Marsters on the TV version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. |
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Animal Mutha 
"Who would've thunk it?"
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Posted - 09/28/2007 : 11:54:38
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Gene Hackman's (Polish) A Bridge Too Far
Don Cheadle's (British) Ocean's Eleven
John Malkovich (Russian) Rounders
Keanu Reeves (British) Dracula
Christopher Lambert (Scottish) Highlander |
Edited by - Animal Mutha on 09/30/2007 00:39:31 |
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BiggerBoat
"Pass me the harpoon"
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Posted - 09/30/2007 : 13:01:20
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Clive Owen in all his films. He's got one accent, which I can only descriibe as 'barrow boy' (which is an essex-cockney laandaan twang to you non-brits). He can't do anything else. I can even hear it when he does (or doesn't) American accents.
Added to the fact that he can't act very well makes it even more astounding to me that he continues to get such high profile roles. He should be banned. |
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Airbolt 
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 09/30/2007 : 19:44:34
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| Jason ( Cockney ) Statham attempting a growly american accent in " The Transporter " ( when he remembered to! ) or Michael Caine in " The Cider House Rules" |
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Airbolt
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 09/30/2007 : 19:45:40
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
Clive Owen in all his films. He's got one accent, which I can only descriibe as 'barrow boy' (which is an essex-cockney laandaan twang to you non-brits). He can't do anything else. I can even hear it when he does (or doesn't) American accents.
Added to the fact that he can't act very well makes it even more astounding to me that he continues to get such high profile roles. He should be banned.
He's Martin Kemp with a better agent! |
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Airbolt
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 09/30/2007 : 19:47:06
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Originally posted by ragingfluff
Much as I enjoyed 'ocean's 11', can someone please explain what was with Don Cheadle's bad Cockney accent (complete with awful rhyming slang; what did he do, watch repeats of MINDER?). I found that the one distracting element in a film I otherwise liked a lot.
I think he watched "Mary Poppins" , "Oliver" and Antony LaPaglia in Frasier! |
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Chris C 
"Four words, never backwards."
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Posted - 09/30/2007 : 19:52:17
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
Another TV actor who got credit for a passable accent is James Marsters on the TV version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
He got his accent very well (for an American).
Quote from IMDB about his accent: I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head (Giles in Buffy), who sounds kind of like Spike in real life. It's much more tough-guy talk in real life. His accent (as Giles) is just as fake as mine. His is nice and gritty, but it's not North London. I'm always afraid that I'm morphing over into Tony Head, wherever he's from. |
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Airbolt
"teil mann, teil maschine"
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Posted - 07/25/2008 : 23:21:51
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Jamie Bell has a very variable english accent in "Jumper" - even tho he is english! It's not really anything except vaguely northern?
Mind you it goes with the plastic characters and wooden acting in this film. |
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 07/28/2008 : 19:17:53
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| Bob Hoskins does a great American tough-guy accent, c.f., ROGER RABBIT. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 07/28/2008 : 20:12:30
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| Keira Knightley's 'Welsh' accent in The Edge of Love. |
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Odd accents in films
