OK, I've seen many movies with Ewen Bremner in them. He has a very thick accent, and that does not bother me. What seemed strange was that he seemed to be doing a Scottish accent, but a bad one, as if he didn't naturally have any accent. What up with that?
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I think it was supposed to be a mix of Scots, Irish and American all rolled in together. Could be completely wrong but thats what it sounded like to me
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Was trying to place it myself, in parts it sounded Scottish, then he sounded like Ian Paisley ... mental :)
shareI'm gonna agree with a previous poster: that it's Scottish, Irish, and American rolled together. Judging from what I see in the movie, I think his character is supposed to be Scotch-Irish:
1. There's a leprechan on the dashboard of his plane (Irish)
2. On the tail of his plane, someone's painted a four-leaf clover (Irish)
3. The kilt and bagpipes (Scottish)
So yeah, I'm gonna go with the mix theory.
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Judging from what I see in the movie, I think his character is supposed to be Scotch-Irish
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Scotch?
He isn't a drink!
That's almost as offensive as calling him a Jock.
And bagpipes and the kilt originally came from Ireland.
Tom that aint an authentic accent. It was a very bad Irish accent.
Also you get bagpipes in Ireland.
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It was Northern Irish / Ulster - very clearly, very strong Norn Oirish.
It wasn't that far off, if a bit of a caricature.
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im sure someone said he was scottish in the film (please dont say 'scotch', as that refers only to the drink and not the race) but ill have to check that.
even though i thought someone said that and i knew bremner was scottish i still thought his character was meant to be irish in some way or another.
im voting either full blown irish, or scots-irish
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Probably supposed to be Irish but, as usual, nobody can tell the difference. The plane was decorated to be Irish with no hints towards him being Scottish. The Kilt if I remember correctly was an Irish one which always confused me coz I thought for being an Irish guy this guy sure does sounds Scottish. I put it down to bad acting. Oh and whoever said the kilt and bagpipes were originally from Ireland is wrong - Their roots go even further back to the likes of Greece etc.
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Clearly he is meant to be Irish see all of the above.
...so they had the script that called for an Irish pilot but the casting director had never even spoken to an Irish person let alone been to Ireland so they just went ahead and cast a Scot assuming that “all them Celts are all the same"
...so then they have Bremner contracted who can’t do an Irish accent to save his life but instead of changing the vague Irish pointers to Scottish ones they ask him to “have a go” with crap results.
And why do they do all this...because Irish sells better to an American audience than Scottish does...as if the audience could never possibly imagine a Scot in South America, the Scots travelled the world just as widely as the Irish!
...check out Billy Connelly in the Last Samurai, exactly the same thing...why does he not just play a Scottish man. What does amaze me are the people who just can’t really tell the two apart and think the character is meant to sound like that 2rolled into one"...although I guess if you don’t know any Scottish or Irish people it must be hard to tell.
A good actor made to look awful and a character that didnt spoil the movie for me but made me want to chuck stuff at the screen every time he was on.
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I thought he was supposed to be Irish, Declan being an Irish name, but I thought his accent was really dodgy. I figured that the makers of the film thought if they grabbed a Scottish actor, gave him an Irish name, told him to talk with a fake Irish accent and threw in some bagpipes along the way, that few people watching this film would know any better.
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i think they just told hjm to make it comically unintelligible any way he could
shareFinally someone gets it. Outback Australians in the wild west sound South African, Mad boatmen in Jamaica sound dutch...
They wanted an out of place character with a clearly unintelligible accent, they even emphasize it with all of The Rock's expressions of confusion to everything Declan says.
If you think they asked a Scot to do a clear Belfast accent then you are foolish, they asked a known comedy sidekick to exaggerate his character to as far fetched as it could be, same as he did in Around the World in 80 days.
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