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Does It Annoy You When An Actor You Like Has To Do An Accent?


There's so many scenarios where a certain actor could have been an American in England, and kept his accent instead of pretending a guy in NYC was born in London. Especially in the movie business with so many expatriates.

I won't even ask about dubbing. I started a movie over the weekend, and after hearing someone with clear English dubbing in for Marcello Mastroianni, I had to shut it off.

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Only if they are bad at it.

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One of my bugbears is when you have a group of actors playing a family and yet they all have different accents.

Tom Hanks' accent in Elvis was terrible and jarring as well.

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The problem with accents is they are really hard. It amazes me how Kiwis, Aussies and The Brits can nail a generic American English accent and even some regional ones but we are really bad at theirs.

Anyone ever seen Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Kevin Costner in Prince Of Thieves?
Keanu was trying too hard and Costner hardly seemed to give a shit😃

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Exactly. And when someone obviously sounds American, it becomes distracting and silly.

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The coolest way around accents I’ve ever seen was in The Hunt For Red October with Sean Connery playing a seasoned Russian sub captain. A few minutes in they dumped the accents and subtitles by zooming on Connery barking orders into the ship’s com and zoomed out again and everyone just started speaking English lol.

Who thought Connery could do an accent???

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Sean Conner even sounds Scottish when he plays an Arab!

I actually thought it was pretty cool that he refused to put on a fake accent. Great actor. Liked him in every movie I've seen with him. "The Hill" is a really good one of his that seems to be ignored by the average movie fan.

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They're not necessarily doing "an accent", they grew up wanting to be in the movies and are doing "a movie voice", just as American actors do what they believe to be a "movie voice".

Same with music, most foreigners americanize their singing pronunciation.

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Only time I was actually annoyed was when I saw Keanu Reeves do a British accent in Dracula. It sounded so terrible.

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Has anyone seen a show on Netflix called The Last Kingdom? My wife has been watching it a lot lately and the main guy has the worst accent. Not only that, I think he’s supposed to be a Viking but uses slang like it’s 2022. It’s impossible to know, but it just doesn’t feel too authentic. 😀

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Like Gerard Butler? Lol. Just plays Scottish characters who live in the USA. Some movies acknowledge it, having a character ask where he’s from, and some just let it slide.

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