Horrible, horrible, horrible attempt at a Scottish accent. As a Scot, I don't understand casting an English actor as a Scot when his accent is that awful. Rewrite the character as English or hire a Scottish actor!
shareIt's so piss poor, I actually did a double take.
shareIt's so abysmal he sounds remarkably like Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons.
shareAgreed. He sounds ridiculous and it actually puts me off seeing it. Would love someone like Robert Carlyle or even Tommy Flanagan to lead this cast but I doubt they'd have secured the funding.
I never understand why directors/actors will insist on giving their characters improbable accents when it'd be so much more believeable to just hear them speaking naturally.
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Um, I think Jude Law costs more than Carlyle or Flanagan.
As an American, all I noticed was the Law wasn't speaking the Queen's English anymore; I thought it was some working-class English dialect. I didn't assume he was a Scot.
Jude Law would cost more, OBVIOUSLY, but he would also draw more people into the cinema, make the film more money, so would be more likely to secure funding to make the movie if he's attached to it. Capiche?
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Oh, capiche. Thanks for the clarification.
shareI've only seen the trailer but he sounds like he's doing an impression of Gerard Butler.
shareThe accent is terrible. Sound like a drunk Old Firm fan vomiting in a stairwell.
shareWhy did his character have to be Scottish? They should have let Law use his usual accent! Scoot was able to keep his usual American twang, for example, and Konstantin his Russian.
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Exactly Neil_Williamson, WHY did he have to be Scottish?!!!!!!!!!
When he uttered his first words, I thought he was Russian!
This film would have been much better had he just kept his normal English accent. Job done.
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First off I'm English *cue the hate*, but I thought Law's accent in the trailer opening "Arv bin wukin orn submuleens fa nearly tharty years" wasn't too bad, although I laughed because it was really ham-fisted.
I can't stand it in films when an accent is off. There are loads of Scots actors who could pull it off. Infact Ewan McGregor would've been perfect for it.
Jonny Lee Miller, an Englishmen, in Trainspotting pulled it off okay I thought, and then you have Mike Myers as Shrek.
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Fair comment, especially about JLM.
shareI actually thought that for the majority of the film the accent was decent. There were a few times when it confusingly sounded a bit Russian, but for the most part pretty solid. I've heard a lot worse put it that way. Also, there is more to a performance than an accent and in that respect I felt that Law delivered. The film is pretty good!
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It was overdone... but, I'd rather it be overdone than have a character who is supposed to be Scottish, and an actor who doesn't try AT ALL... I appreciate somebody who shows willing. It may yield mixed results, but its serviceable enough to do the job.
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First off I'm English [...]Jonny Lee Miller, an Englishmen, in Trainspotting pulled it off okayHe really didn't...
I could be wrong but isn't his character meant to be half Scottish/half Russian? Hence the clipped accent?
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