Dustin Nguyen's accent
I found his attempts at an Aussie accent distracting. It sounded like a cross between strine and cockney with a bit of American as well. Did anyone else find this?
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This has been a common criticism of his performance, even from people who liked the film in general. Nguyen is Canadian. The film attempts to explain the wandering accent by saying he's been abroad several years, but really it seems he couldn't get a handle on an Australian accent.
shareActually, he's an American and he lives in Los Angeles.
In any case, I think he did a fair job of the Australian accent, but I'm puzzled as to why a local Vietnamese-Australian actor couldn't have been cast in his place instead.
Nice effort from Nguyen though, I must say.
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shareNot fair, there'd be someone who could have done the role. Dustin's accent was distracting for me so I would have preferred a less experienced actor who could have played the part with a natural accent.
shareOmigod... I noticed this too, the Australia accent that he was trying do didn't appear natural. It was the first thing that I noticed when he first appeared in the movie...
shareI remember reading that they definitly wanted a Vietnamese actor and when there were no Vietnamese Australian actors appropriate they looked else where. But it wasn't good enough if they just got a Chinese Australian or Malay Australian, he had to be Vietnamese. Personally, I'd didn't notice the accent and I thought he did a good job. The stand out performances were from Noni Hazelhurst and Hugo Weaving though.
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I find it hard to believe that they couldn't scrounge through NIDA and find one Vietnamese-Australian actor who couldn't fill the role. That's like finding an American to play Bridget Jones. Oh whoops, they did that didn't they?
shareActually he's Vietnamese...straight up born in Vietnam.
shareyeah his accent was distracting for me too, was he actually trying to put on an australian accent or is that how he normally speaks?
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Having seen the film a couple of times now, I'm not terribly bothered by Nguyen's accent. His character is Vietnamese-Australian and his parents aren't native English speakers. Then we're told he's spent the past four years in Canada. So his melange of accents make sense for this character, and isn't so overstated as to be distracting. No Ngyuen's performance isn't the most brilliant in the film, but he held his own against some of the best acting of 2005. His character was slightly underwritten but Ngyuen managed to suggest both his aspirations and weaknesses without distracting affectations.
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