What in the world was up with his voice in this movie??? I like him as an actor and I know that's nowhere near what he normally sounds like. I'm not sure if he had some illness or if he was directed to do that but it sounded terrible to me.
shareI think that was the point - to portray the attending (really, the Good Doctor's boss) as condescending and dismissive: in meetings, when he plows thru the cases and blithely says he's already sent the girl home when the Good Doctor wants to keep her 1 more day to be safe; to the girl's father when he comes to the hospital accusing them of killing her; and to the Good Doctor himself, when he was worried over the guy with the allergic reaction. Morrow did an excellent job of acting arrogant and I've-seen-it-all-so-don't-even-question-me - I think the voice was a bonus way of expressing that attitude. If anything, the fake British accent was more annoying. Why'd he have to be a Brit? The character's awkwardness would've played just as well had he been MidWestern.
shareWhen you talk about a "fake British accent," to whom are you referring? Certainly not to Rob Morrow's character? And Orland Bloom IS British, so there was nothing "fake" about his accent. If you are indeed talking about Bloom, his character's being British rather than "Midwestern" is an essential component of his dysfunctional behavior. His cultural isolation is a corollary to his broader emotional detachment.
sharedidn't know Bloom was a Brit
shareI disagree. His character didn't come off as arrogant. He came off as disinterested. Or slightly comatose. And, the voice, I think, is just Rob Morrow's pathetic attempt at creating a character or maybe he's trying to disguise his identity because his massive ego can't deal with the fact that he's been reduced to taking these nothing roles.
shareI don't know what's wrong with that guy. In Quiz Show, he did this incredibly weird and awkward NY accent that was totally distracting and annoying. In this movie, he's doing a weird and awkward high voice that is completely unnecessary and totally distracting. Does he think these things are substitutes for acting? Where are the directors and why aren't they telling him to be normal?
I liked him in that show about Alaska but since then - yuk.
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blowfly13:
Guess since it happened well before your birth you don't know the Quiz Show was based on a real incident. The main characters are real people. Dick Goodwin is still alive today. Morrow was playing Goodwin, a real person with a real accent, whom many old enough to remember would know what he really sounded like.
Take a look -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Goodwin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_q3fyAAmw
As for Morrow's annoying accent in this movie, well if you don't realize the writers and directors wrote the character that way, then you really don't understand movie-making. He's meant to give you the exact impression you have of him: annoying [boss].
Richard Goodwin is not from the New York area. He is from Brookline Ma.right next to Boston. That is a bad Boston accent he's doing. So many people try to do the Boston accent in movies and they all sound so bad like they're imitating the Kennedy's. Tom Hanks-Catch me if you can, Kevin Costner 13-Days etc..The only ones who really can do it are people who are from their. Mark Wahlberg,Matt Damon, Ben Affleck.
shareI thought I was the only one who noticed his annoying high pitched voice.
shareI think he's trying to put distance from the idea you might be having that he's playing an older Dr. Joel Fleischman (of Northern Exposure) and probably also he's trying to sound like kind of a person you don't like that much. It's part of his acting chops.
shareHe's a good 20 years older, too. People's voices change.
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