question to the brits. how was pacino's brit accent in this movie?

It was strange, but not too bad. There was a looseness to it, like he wasn't trying too hard to immitate someone else, he still sounded like Al Pacino. If I heard it on the street I'd probably assume that he was raised in a Mediterranean country but had learned English in London, resulting in that idiosyncratic accent. The most off part was the 'o' sound, so 'dogs' sounded like 'dawwgs'.

What Americans commonly do when replicating any type of British accent is to affect the most upper class accent imaginable, so they come off sounding like the Queen after being kicked in the balls. Thankfully Pacino didn't fall for that one. Also I'd assumed Paul Guilfoyle was Australian from this film. I thought I kept hearing an Aussie twang coming through, but apparently not.

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Quite literally the worst one I have ever heard in my life. Worse than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Por-pins. I was crying with laughter throughout the film. I grew up and still live in London and I couldn't work out what the hell he was saying half the time. My friends and I quote this movie constantly now as a kind of in joke.

He doesn't get one aspect of it right and is all over the place; a kind of Dickensian Michael Caine by way of Tony Montana and Brooklyn. At some points he appears to pre-empt certain aspects of Liam Gallagher's look and mannerisms; a mighty achievement considering Oasis wouldn't exist for another four years and Manchester is almost a different country accent-wise.

No one in the entire UK talks like this, never mind London.

Any Londoner who tells you this accent isn't bad is off his bleedin' rocker son.

Proof that Pacino is a movie star not an actor.

I'm off to watch that youtube clip again....hahahaha....

"The dorgs Ray. Ah wernt dorn tha dorgs din eye."

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Well, his accent is a mixed bag but you can't do this piece without one (there's slang in this piece it needs to be done) and his isn't perfect by any means - but it's good enough, you get the point of it and the character and in every other way is performance is stunning in this.

This is maybe my fave performance of his and as you can tell by my name I'm quite the fan.

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