tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post1282215652589221936..comments2023-07-19T04:05:34.796-04:00Comments on Of Cabbages and Kings: My Top Incongruous Yet Mysteriously Forgivable Movie AccentsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-77901633367838817162011-03-15T06:20:18.741-04:002011-03-15T06:20:18.741-04:00Great list. I haven't seen quite a few on the...Great list. I haven't seen quite a few on the list but highly agree with Sean Connery and Drew Barrymore. Gotta love films like that, accents are a great thing.Barry Loganhttp://www.cornerbookcase.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-28635365517317377102011-03-12T07:30:23.221-05:002011-03-12T07:30:23.221-05:00This isn't an actress in a movie, but ever sin...This isn't an actress in a movie, but ever since Madonna did "Evita" her standard speaking voice has a bit of an English accent to it.<br /><br />You're from Detroit, Madge.cardiogirlhttp://www.cardiogirl.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-66267014812318119662011-03-11T06:32:42.398-05:002011-03-11T06:32:42.398-05:00You're absolutely right, and it's been goi...You're absolutely right, and it's been going on for a very long time unchallenged! In England we are so used to Americans playing English people we almost don't notice anymore.<br /><br />But yes, I think Dick Van Dyke takes the biscuit. And you're also right .. it doesn't really matter! The movie is still fun.Jay at The Depp Effecthttp://www.thedeppeffect.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-83665358665365332462011-03-10T15:51:41.034-05:002011-03-10T15:51:41.034-05:00robert redford didn't even try to sound like t...robert redford didn't even try to sound like the son of an english earl in out of africa. the closest he came to an english accent was eating a muffin of english.Robert Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689245967310324916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-38907966281406829942011-03-10T13:16:25.404-05:002011-03-10T13:16:25.404-05:00Anonymous- Inigo Montoya's a classic! "I ...Anonymous- Inigo Montoya's a classic! "I wonder if he's using the same wind we're using?" :)<br /><br />And I didn't know the girl who played Maggie in Caddyshack, and now I guess I know why-- her career tanked!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-49721694523434582152011-03-10T12:26:00.522-05:002011-03-10T12:26:00.522-05:002 accents come to mind:
1. Mandy Patinkin's i...2 accents come to mind:<br /><br />1. Mandy Patinkin's inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride - Priceless!!<br /><br />2. Sarah Holcomb's Maggie in Caddyshack - so dreadful she never acted again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-22419917726079005712011-03-09T11:11:13.069-05:002011-03-09T11:11:13.069-05:00Shieldmaiden- Costner's accent (or non-accent)...Shieldmaiden- Costner's accent (or non-accent) made it hard for me to like that film, though Alan Rickman was excellent. And THANK YOU about Brad Pitt's accent in the Devil's Own. I thought it was pretty awful, but I'm also not a Brad Pitt fan. To me he never quite feels the character-- he knows to do certain things to connote moods, but I always sense he doesn't really FEEL it.<br /><br />Deray- Ah, I didn't see that one, but it is interesting to hear folks who KNOW what the accent should be weigh in on what it ISN'T.<br /><br />HumorSmith- He's great as Ted, and fine in the Replacements, but his range is... um... not-so-much.<br /><br />Sex-n-Fries- I like Fargo, myself, though I prefer some of the other Coens films.<br /><br />Dave- Oh gawd, you're right. I totally forgot he was Egyptian, too. Ramirez-- an Egyptian. Yipes.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883854503294092142noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-3998732840169112092011-03-09T09:33:52.321-05:002011-03-09T09:33:52.321-05:00Connery's character in Highlander is even wors...Connery's character in Highlander is even worse than you think - he's originally from ancient Egypt. Or maybe the planet Zeist, depending on who you ask.Dave Whitehttp://www.toomanytshirts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-23187276960699342372011-03-08T19:09:24.777-05:002011-03-08T19:09:24.777-05:00I loved Fargo, mostly for the accent. Great list o...I loved Fargo, mostly for the accent. Great list of movies!!!Lizzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966111239105288056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-80661889698438650522011-03-08T17:59:49.817-05:002011-03-08T17:59:49.817-05:00Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula&qu...Keanu Reeves in "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Whoa!HumorSmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09748394339913346112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-33144310483769795752011-03-08T17:40:50.936-05:002011-03-08T17:40:50.936-05:00Salma Hayek in "Frida". A Mexican speaki...Salma Hayek in "Frida". A Mexican speaking in English with a Mexican accent?<br /><br />Now that I think about it, everyone in that movie has an accent and most them is the wrong one!Derayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11670887838085009372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7173487087895437639.post-49644066677331407052011-03-08T16:48:51.754-05:002011-03-08T16:48:51.754-05:00THANK YOU for calling out Dick Van Dyke in Mary Po...THANK YOU for calling out Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. THERE was a movie that needed a dialogue coach. Grating to the extreme on the ear. <br /><br />I have to throw old Kevin Costner under the bus for Robin Hood; I'm one of the 27 or so people who made it through that whole movie and he abandons the accent (which he is doing badly anyway), then picks it back up again at least half a dozen times. <br /><br />I hated this movie for other reasons, but Brad Pitt's Belfast accent in 'The Devil's Own' was very off. They should have had Miranda Richardson help him; she mastered the incomprehensible accent that caused my first couple of weeks in that fair city to be one panicked 'OhGod did he just ask me a question?' moment after another.Shieldmaiden96https://www.blogger.com/profile/04673938377819957295noreply@blogger.com