Am I the only one....
Who didn't think Pattinson did a good job and thought this movie is a bit over rated? Not bad but certainly not great.
shareI thought it was quite overrated.
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I thought he carried the movie. Not a great movie, but I was never bored with it.
shareI kept hearing different accents coming out of him. I was wondering if it was a character choice (since the character's been all over and/or is going mad) or if it was just some weird trouble Pattinson was having with the accent.
Either way, I think his performance was gripping, mostly top-notch. A couple of his crazier moments nuzzled up pretty close to silly, so it wasn't flawless, but I liked it.
It's some kind of a historical accent, that doesn't exist today anymore.
shareHas he talked about it in interviews? How do we know if it doesn't exist anymore?
share"The two actors also speak in period-accurate accents and dialect—Pattinson’s accent is specifically from a rural farming area of Maine, while Dafoe captures the old atlantic sailor’s speech. "
https://www.themarysue.com/review-the-lighthouse-eggers/
From Deadline Hollywood:
It was surprisingly difficult for me. Normally I've got quite an ear for accents but this was … [sic] … there's no real reference for it," Pattinson. "It's kind of a combination of three or four different accents, and if you just make one vowel mistake then you suddenly are doing a different accent, and you can't really control it that much." "These old time-y, Downeast New England accents, don't have rhotic Rs, which, in that hard R, is a signpost for a Brit like [Pattinson]," Eggers told Deadline. "It's super fascinating. It's weirdly close, so that made it tricky."
imdb trivia:
Robert Pattinson's accent is based on a very specific area of Maine farming dialect, while Willem Dafoe's is the jargon of Atlantic fishermen and sailors of the time. Director/writer Robert Eggers was very precise about the actor's accents and line delivery. He would, for example, give instructions to "say the second sentence of your third line 75% faster."
Awesome, thanks!
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