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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2009, 05:17:02 PM »
English accent:

Michael Caine has affected a very convincing English accent in a number of films.


French accent:

Sacha Cohen in Taladega Nights  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okjOzLfshao

Pepe Le Pew did a pretty good French accent, for a fictional skunk.


American accent: 

Brad Pitt, hands down.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2009, 07:11:02 PM »
American accent: 

Brad Pitt, hands down.

Huh?  I'm pretty sure he was born in the US.  Kentucky I think.

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2009, 07:21:33 PM »
Brad Pitt is indeed US and speaks English. Now, his fake Irish accent.... horrible.  :O
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2009, 07:26:39 PM »
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2009, 07:36:08 PM »
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Also forgot Simon Pegg in Band of Brothers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCj5OtJ6bBk

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Holy Crap!  I never noticed he was in the movie and I've watched it 3 times.

WOW, same here!   Of course, I didn't know who Simon Pegg was when I first watched B o B.

As for accents, I thought Lee Evans did a great American accent in There's Something About Mary.   (He played the architect/pizza delivery guy who was also in love with Mary.) 

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #30 on: August 28, 2009, 08:09:07 PM »
Brad Pitt is indeed US and speaks English. Now, his fake Irish accent.... horrible.  :O

....yet slightly better than Tom Cruise's in FAR AND AWAY....  :laugh:
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #31 on: August 28, 2009, 11:08:18 PM »
Brad Pitt is indeed American, which may explain his curious knack for the dialect.


Best Spanish accent goes to American actor Jack Black, in Nacho Libre.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #32 on: August 28, 2009, 11:29:24 PM »
You were joking about Michael Caine too, weren't you?

Good British Accents:
Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jone's Diary

.....don't look at me like that!  =D


Americans:
How would you rate Christian Bale's American accent? Or Daniel Day-Lewis?
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #33 on: August 28, 2009, 11:38:41 PM »
Bridget Jones' Diary - the people responsible for that abortion of a film should be beaten to death with copies of Pride and Prejudice.  It would only be fair. 

For you Pom Limey Brits, how was Don Cheadle's accent in the Ocean films? 
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #34 on: August 28, 2009, 11:53:10 PM »
Can't remember when I last watched it, so tried to find some footage on YouTube. From what I heard him say in one trailer it was, I think, an attempt at a London accent.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #35 on: August 29, 2009, 12:01:13 AM »
Oh, he was definitely going for the Cockney-ism.  Rhyming slang, and such.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #36 on: August 29, 2009, 12:11:28 AM »
....Cheadle isn't from the UK?  :O

He had a VERY convincing Cockney accent, to me. I've only spent a few years over there, though.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #37 on: August 29, 2009, 12:18:44 AM »
Wiki says he's American.  I heard somewhere (I think the commentary track for Ocean's 11) someone describing how we went about researching the dialect and slang.

A while ago, somebody said they were impressed with Mel Gibson's American accent.  When I've heard him interviewed, I remember him speaking like an American.  He was raised in Australia, but I don't think he has the Aussie accent. 
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #38 on: August 29, 2009, 12:38:10 AM »
I honestly didn't know he was from the US. Interesting.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #39 on: August 29, 2009, 04:33:59 AM »
Mel Gibson did have the Aussie accent, but it was never super-strong.

Mad Max  - Goose Hopsital scene

The original US release of the movie was dubbed over in 'American', apparently.  =D
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #40 on: August 29, 2009, 11:53:43 AM »
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #41 on: August 29, 2009, 06:30:39 PM »
Al Pacino in "Scarface"

Robert De Niro as Al Capone in "The Untouchables"
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #42 on: August 30, 2009, 07:38:42 PM »
Most of us here are qualified to judge the authenticity of exactly one accent, and that's American.

Hugh Laurie's is indeed impressive, as is Christian Bale's. Also that South African actress (I disremember the name).
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #43 on: August 30, 2009, 07:46:03 PM »
Actually, I don't think I've heard a bad faked American accent.  There are so many dialects and so many different accents, it's hard to say what's a real accent and what's faked.

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #44 on: August 30, 2009, 08:55:07 PM »
Actually, I don't think I've heard a bad faked American accent.  There are so many dialects and so many different accents, it's hard to say what's a real accent and what's faked.

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Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor. Worst accent ever.  :lol:

Best? Daniel Day Lewis.
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #45 on: August 30, 2009, 09:56:59 PM »
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Actually, I don't think I've heard a bad faked American accent.
Other Americans trying to fake a southern accent can be painful. I seem to recall the recent Dukes of Hazzard movie featuring appalling fake accents.

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #46 on: August 30, 2009, 10:27:37 PM »
Hugh Laurie, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale. 

Brad Pitt's accent in Inglorious Basterds is horrible.

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #47 on: August 30, 2009, 11:49:54 PM »
Other Americans trying to fake a southern accent can be painful. I seem to recall the recent Dukes of Hazzard movie featuring appalling fake accents.

As bad as Nicholas Cage in Con Air?
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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #48 on: August 31, 2009, 12:53:32 AM »
As bad as Nicholas Cage in Con Air?
:laugh:
Worse. Jessica Simpson's terribly exaggerated accent made my skin crawl. Nick Cage gets a free pass due to his fantastic performance in The Wicker Man.

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Re: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies
« Reply #49 on: August 31, 2009, 04:28:44 AM »
Most of us here are qualified to judge the authenticity of exactly one accent, and that's American.

Hugh Laurie's is indeed impressive, as is Christian Bale's. Also that South African actress (I disremember the name).

Charlize Theron, who does a pretty good English accent too.
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