Comments on: Who Wants To Hear Some Bad Accents? OK, So That’s Everyone…

By: harry

harry — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:45:31 +0000

There’s usually quite a lot of collateral damage when an American attempts an English accent in a film, but the reverse is also true. We still remember Lawrence Olivier attempting to speak in a drawling, sarcastic manner when he portrayed Big Daddy in a television presentation of Tennessee Williams’ play. It seems there was something about that Louisiana accent that caused Olivier to stiffen up into an oddly detached sort of Creole zombie, uttering sounds that no American ever heard before. Although one could understand his words, no one could understand why he was talking that way. And who could forget Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks? It must be said he got a lot of phonemes just about right (approximate locale of Chicago actually), however his overall intonation produced the effect of some mythical New Jersey gangster who was trying to imitate Frank Sinatra. It was distressing because we like our gangsters to be from Chicago.

By: GI Joe

GI Joe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:17 +0000

Angelina Jolie as Lady of the Manor and Tomb Raider Lara Croft?
Mind you it’s nowhere near as bad as Don Cheadle’s criminal attempt at Cockney in Ocean’s 11/12/13.
Only he could make Dick Van Dyke sound like a naturalized Londoner!

By: nathalie

nathalie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:43:12 +0000

I saw part of the crying game and Forest Whitaker did a really good british accent, so I have to disagree with you there.

Also if you want to see a truley pathetic english accent you should watch Charlize Theron’s cameo appearance on arrested development.

By: bbstings

bbstings — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:25:52 +0000

“…about to rape you, whether you liked it or not…”

An interesting spin on the old rape concept there.

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:37:24 +0000

You should have done some research before writing this piece.
Barton does not have an accent(british) because she was playing an American character. I think she actually talks about it in one article in a magazine.