Oh, I think this list is really incomplete. Grab *any* crappy cop/war movie with Americans faking Russian/Eastern European accents of the bad guys...the numerous crimes of Black Americans faking African/Caribbean accents (such as Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend's godawful Jamaican fakery in "The Mighty Quinn" a movie I otherwise love)....the standard, ridiculous Southern accent adopted by actors that sounds exactly the same whether the character is Texan, Mississippian, Georgian, etc (such as Kyra Sedgewick's laughable Georgian accent in "The Closer").
It's been a problem for decades, and one reason I'm always railing against H'Wood insisting on not hiring natives of the countries whose languages must be spoken. I can think of a few actors who've pulled off accents well, such as Meryl Streep or Tilda Swinson (who's multi-lingual anyway) but otherwise it's an ongoing issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "B Smith" <daikaij...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:52:22 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Five Worst Accents in Movies You Probably Never Saw I'll see these five and raise y'all with The Big Easy. New Orleans folks still laugh and cringe at that movie. Note to Hollywood watch Treme or Frank's Place to hear what New Orleans folks sound like. Hint it ain't faux Remy LeBeau Cajun. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@...> wrote: > > rave, it shames me to say this... I have seen all five of these. Hartnett's > still elicits subliminal pain at the memory. > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Kelwyn <ravena...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.premiere.com/List/The-5-Worst-Accents-In-Movies-You-Probably-Never-Saw > > > > > > 5. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson - The Night We Never Met > > > > 4. Nicole Kidman – The Interpreter > > > > 3. Tom Hanks – The Terminal > > > > 2. Josh Hartnett – Blow Dry > > > > 1. Keanu Reeves – Youngblood > > > > Keanu gets a ton of crap (and rightfully so) for his absolute slaughtering > > of the English dialect in Dracula. But go a little bit deeper on his resume > > – this guy has some serious international hate crimes to answer for. His > > French-Canadian goalie from Youngblood represents an accent so horrifying > > and offensive, Québécois tourists still spit on Keanu's Hollywood Walk of > > Fame star. > > > > > > > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >
