Author Topic: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies (Read 22712 times)

Perd Hapley · « **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.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2009, 07:11:02 PM »

Quote from: fistful on August 28, 2009, 05:17:02 PM

American accent:

Brad Pitt, hands down.

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

Chris

PTK · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2009, 07:21:33 PM »

Brad Pitt is indeed US and speaks English. Now, his fake Irish accent.... horrible.

Iain · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2009, 07:26:39 PM »

Poor misunderstood fistful.

robear · « **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.)

seeker_two · « **Reply #30 on:** August 28, 2009, 08:09:07 PM »

Quote from: PTK on August 28, 2009, 07:21:33 PM

Brad Pitt is indeed US and speaks English. Now, his fake Irish accent.... horrible.

....yet slightly better than Tom Cruise's in FAR AND AWAY....

Perd Hapley · « **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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLBjdxVKbI

Cromlech · « **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!

Americans:
How would you rate Christian Bale's American accent? Or Daniel Day-Lewis?

Perd Hapley · « **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?

Cromlech · « **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.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #35 on:** August 29, 2009, 12:01:13 AM »

Oh, he was definitely going for the Cockney-ism. Rhyming slang, and such.

PTK · « **Reply #36 on:** August 29, 2009, 12:11:28 AM »

....Cheadle isn't from the UK?

He had a VERY convincing Cockney accent, to me. I've only spent a few years over there, though.

Perd Hapley · « **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.

PTK · « **Reply #38 on:** August 29, 2009, 12:38:10 AM »

I honestly didn't know he was from the US. Interesting.

Cromlech · « **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.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #40 on:** August 29, 2009, 11:53:43 AM »

Death comes to Dinner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBTsMJ4jNk

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Grim Reaper: Silence!!! I have come for you.

[Pause as this sinks in. Sidelong glance. A stifled
fart.]

Angela: ... You mean to...

Grim Reaper: ... Take you away. That is my purpose. I am Death.

Geoffrey: Well that's cast rather a gloom over the evening hasn't
it?

Katzenberg: I don't see it that way, Geoff. Let me tell you what I
think we're dealing with here, a potentially positive learning
experience...

Grim Reaper: Shut up! Shut up you American. You always talk, you
Americans, you talk and you talk and say 'Let me tell you
something' and 'I just wanna say this', Well you're dead now,
so shut up.

Waitone · « **Reply #41 on:** August 29, 2009, 06:30:39 PM »

Al Pacino in "Scarface"

Robert De Niro as Al Capone in "The Untouchables"

doczinn · « **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).

mtnbkr · « **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.

Chris

StopTheGrays · « **Reply #44 on:** August 30, 2009, 08:55:07 PM »

Quote from: mtnbkr 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.

Chris

Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor. Worst accent ever.

Best? Daniel Day Lewis.

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **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.

w turner · « **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.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #47 on:** August 30, 2009, 11:49:54 PM »

Quote from: Fistful Savalas on August 30, 2009, 09:56:59 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?

Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas · « **Reply #48 on:** August 31, 2009, 12:53:32 AM »

Quote from: fistful on August 30, 2009, 11:49:54 PM

As bad as Nicholas Cage in Con Air?

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOpsbAUEe90

Iain · « **Reply #49 on:** August 31, 2009, 04:28:44 AM »

Quote from: doczinn 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).

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

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Author Topic: Most convincing artificial accents in the movies (Read 22712 times)