Pacino playing an english character?
If its true, for better or worse, its worth a look!
shareI love Al Pacino as an actor, but i just saw a clip and the accent was awful. But if the acting to his usual standard i imagine i can over look that.
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It wasn't meant to be the standard RP British accent though. It's actually a very strong accent (dialect?) that he did pretty well. Not spot-on, but still fairly good.
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The accent is better when you see it all in context. It needs to be done with an accent because of the nature of the dialogue.
It's a good enough accent, in an incredible performance.
It's not a good accent because both characters are supposed to be from London, and neither sounds like it!
I am well aware that different districts of London carry different accents as i myself am English (although northern english and we carry different accents up North)
But Pacino and Guilfoyle use mish mashed accents in this labour of love.
I love pacino as an actor but.... He should have done this with Brits in the main roles, but then again he did it because he wanted to
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