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His accent was so convincing in "I Sell," that I thought he had to have grown up in the emerald isle, not in the US.
Pacino gives Shylock a strange accent that is probably meant to suggest the slightest hint of Yiddish.
Shakespeare wrote for the accent and the pronunciation just as he did for northerners in other plays.
The Scottish accent changes the emphasis and rhythm of the language and affects profoundly what is said and the way it is taken.
I loved the character Mary Agnes, the office gossip, with her thick New Yawk accent.
I love that NY accent; "you don't know nothing!"; "forget about it".
Evertime the plane was on approach Tattoo would run up the tower ring the bell and with his accent would yell "Da Plane BOSS Da Plane" and you would wonder what everybody's wish would be.People who are born in the mid 80's or later wouldn't understand the hippe because if you watched it now.It don't have a Harry Potter,Jurassic Park Computer animation FX.It was just a stage where you probably could even almost see the wire attached to a guy who's wish was too be able to fly.But to us during that time it was a FANTASY ISLAND.
Elizabeth Taylor's performance is fantastic, and I fail to discern even a trace of accent, much less too much of one.
Anyone who has heard David Suchet speak with his own British accent knows what a shock it is, because his accent as Poirot is so perfect and organic to the character.
Notice how perfectly she nails Angela's undereducated, Long Island Italian accent, and the many fine mannerisms that she brings to the role to really flesh out this spunky and surprisingly bright character.
The latter delivers a truly wonderful Dublin accent.
After that introduction, when Dallesandro opens his mouth, his accent is jarring -- we expect him to be some kind of soft-spoken androgyne; instead, he's got the voice of a street thug -- Morrissey isn't comfortable letting our assumptions go unchecked.
Other Robins always look too old (Kevin Costner with his ridiculous accent looked like Robin's granddad).
All is shot in a "return to..." style - at location, Herzog asking the questions, Dieter answering them in a memorable German-English accent, and with fine remembrance pointing out what happened where about 25 years before.
David Hasselhoff (spelling?) is OK for popcorn TV but he was not believable in this film (where was his English accent?)
From the very beginning, the audience was groaning over Pacino's awful southern accent.
Later, however, we are supposed to suspend our incredulity and believe that both Tea Leoni and Kim Basinger (both of whom are sleepwalking through lame roles) lust after this elderly, half dead looking, effeminate man with the ridiculous accent.
Williamson's accent is tough to wade through.
Filmed in what the old movie posters used to call "A Riot of Color" it resembles nothing more than an expensively-dressed but intellectually-challenged production of "The Student Prince" .Mr James Mason,wearing a very natty little white number,utilises his all-purpose mittel-European accent whenever he remembers.I am a great admirer of his and I sincerely hope the remuneration was comensurate with the distaste he clearly felt for the character he was playing.
Jack Wild had a British accent and Pufnstuf's was southern.
Cher almost makes up for this with her reactions to Cage's shifting accent and out of control body language.
Seriously?! His accent was breaking through so much, although his character was apparently Scottish.
Thank God, Duvall went on to bigger and better things and stopped trying to effect a cultured accent.
From the fictionalising of the historical elements, to O'Herlihy's awful accent in later episodes, the show just slumps the further it goes.
Benicio Del Toro shouldn't work in production of movies, he should put accent on his acting and that's it.
i am so very tired of hollywood "southern" accents that sound nothing like the area where the accent is supposed to be from.
The characters are boring, John Cusack's accent is laughable, and the plotline teeters between boring and laughable.
What we do is, first we get a major star with no idea whatsoever how to do a Germanic accent, and we let him flounder around between French, German, American, and British for over 2 hours.
Poor Jennifer must really need the work, and what was with the accent!!.
Gina Gershon sported an inexplicable and unnecessary English accent - she should be ashamed of her participation in this film.
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