Preposterous accents in films

[Twit 2]

Hold your Ray Winston, this ain't about bad attempts at traditional accents, just weird choices that are probably quite accurate but completely take you out of the film.

Watched Harsh Times on Fetnlix, needs own thread as it's so bad it's good. Bale's voice is just silly coming out of his face. Complete piss take, took me nearly the whole film to get used to it, dawg.

Any suggestions?

[SteveDave]

Pete Postlethwait in The Usual Suspects. I don't even know what it's meant to be. Sometimes Indian, sometimes Welsh, sometimes Irish.

[Viero_Berlotti]

https://youtu.be/0DJnR5OT9UQ?t=1m47s

[gatchamandave]

Christopher Plummer in The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a film that given its cast and background should be far better known. He plays an Incan king with a disjointed falsetto voice that's initially distracting but becomes compelling as events progress.

[Serge]

Pete Postlethwait in The Usual Suspects. I don't even know what it's meant to be. Sometimes Indian, sometimes Welsh, sometimes Irish.

Isn't that kind of the point, though?

[Sebastian Cobb]

Brion James's English accent in Tango and Cash.

[Bad Ambassador]

A Voyage Around the English Language... with Russell Crowe.

Robin Hood, The Mummy, you name it. Give him a character and he'll do a weird accent that sounds just wrong enough to put your ears in the uncanny valley.

[SteveDave]

Isn't that kind of the point, though?

Is it? It just takes me out of the film every time and question his choices. See also- Locke.

[Phil_A]

A Voyage Around the English Language... with Russell Crowe.

Robin Hood, The Mummy, you name it. Give him a character and he'll do a weird accent that sounds just wrong enough to put your ears in the uncanny valley.

"You've got dead ears, mate."

[Shit Good Nose]

Is it?

You could argue that it is because we only hear him through the made-up/embellished story that Spacey is telling.  I think it works fine as it is - the character is so odd (Japanese name as well, don't forget), and almost certainly a creation of Kint, that it needed something to make him stick out and not seem quite right.  Postlethwaite was pretty good at accents, so I'm fairly sure it was an intentional choice.

[Shit Good Nose]

"You've got dead ears, mate."

I like him best when he does gruff.

[studpuppet]

Serge in Beverley Hills Cop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZWWFmaFcI

[Shit Good Nose]

Serge in Beverley Hills Cop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZWWFmaFcI

But that's a GOOD preposterous accent.

"Aachmel"

[Obel]

Sean Bean in Silent Hill. Sometimes American, sometimes Yorkshire, sometimes Sean Connery. Not sure what the hell was going on with his accent.

[Brundle-Fly]

Kathy Bates as Ethel Darling The Bearded Lady in American Horror Story: Freakshow. I couldn't work out what it was meant to be but apparently, it was a Baltimore accent.
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Kathy-Bates-American-Horror-Story-Freak-Show-Featurette-38678558

[phantom_power]

A Voyage Around the English Language... with Russell Crowe.

Robin Hood, The Mummy, you name it. Give him a character and he'll do a weird accent that sounds just wrong enough to put your ears in the uncanny valley.

Except when he is playing an Italian in Gladiator, when his English accent is pretty good

[greenman]

Except when he is playing an Italian in Gladiator, when his English accent is pretty good

We wouldn't accept Romans with an Italian accent though.

[phantom_power]

Yeah but he should play all English characters from now on as if they were Italian. Then his accent would be spot-on

[Shit Good Nose]

They'd still be gruff, though. 

"What accent are you doing, Russ?"

"...gruff..." (walks out of the room in a piss)

[Dex Sawash]

Can I say the little guy in game of thrones? Not a movie though.

[QDRPHNC]

Don Cheadle in the Oceans movies.

Leave it aaahhhhhhht bladdy gavna me old China bowwocks.

[Mini]

Angelina Jolie in Oliver Stone's Alexander. Everyone else is doing Irish; she does Russian or something.

It's actually one of the more entertaining aspects of that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauxJU5RdPs

[FredNurke]

Is there a reason why no one's said Tom Hardy's BANE yet? If not, then I'll say it. Tom Hardy's BANE. BANE. BAAAAANE.


bane

[marquis_de_sad]

John Malkovich's "Russian" accent in Rounders.

[SteveDave]

Is there a reason why no one's said Tom Hardy's BANE yet? If not, then I'll say it. Tom Hardy's BANE. BANE. BAAAAANE.


bane

I said Tom Hardy in Locke. LOCKE. LOCKE. LOOOOOOOOCKE.

locke

[DrGreggles]

Just films? Or can we include some telly*?

Specifically Daphne's Mancunian/Cockney/Australian/South African/Other accented family in 'Frasier'?

[saltysnacks]

Just films? Or can we include some telly*?

Specifically Daphne's Mancunian/Cockney/Australian/South African/Other accented family in 'Frasier'?

'Dokturr Kreeehn'.

[AsparagusTrevor]

Danny Dyer in any film he's been in, or any TV show he's been in, or any house or shop he's been in.

I said Tom Hardy in Locke. LOCKE. LOCKE. LOOOOOOOOCKE.

locke

Locke thread

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

'Dokturr Kreeehn'.

Might have mentioned this before, but she actually (and, no doubt, unwittingly ) comes pretty close to a St. Helens accent at times. Her brothers all had different accents too, including one Dick Van Cockney, but that might have been deliberate.

[nedthemumbler]

Just films? Or can we include some telly*?

Specifically Daphne's Mancunian/Cockney/Australian/South African/Other accented family in 'Frasier'?

Oh my word yes, what was going on there? Someone involved somewhere surely could have piped up, 'er, this is an accent unheard on Earth, let alone NW UK or Seattle.