^ Only if he can have Robin tortured to death at the end...
Worst attempts at accents
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Doesn't Barrowman consider himself to be bi-dialectal. Both of his accents are real accents.
Better than her working class London one in Mary Reilly. Noticed lot of American actors seem to manage Irish accent quite well but mangle English ones. And why are female actors (Streep, Zellwegger, Paltrow, etc) better than males at them?
I've never even heard Barrowman use that accent, so I daresay I may faint if or when I do!!!!!!
Hmm, you raise two interesting points.
I think the trick to doing an Irish accent well is to do it quite softly. Jon Voight did well in The General taking this approach; whereas those who overdo it (most others!) come a cropper.
As for the female/male thing, there have been some awful female attempts at Irish accents. Catherine O'Hara in The Last of the High Kings, the aforesaid Kidman, etc.
I think people are also probably more critical of attempts at their own countries' accents and accepting of those who are attempting other countries'. For example, I thought Russell Crowe's accent in Robin Hood was ok, though I haven't seen it all, but most English people laughed at it. OTOH, I've seen great reviews for Miranda Richardson's Irish accent in The Crying Game, which I didn't find at all convincing.
Too true!!!
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtDg23G1uc8[/yt]
^ I managed not to faint. I guess the warning helped!
Jonathan Hillerman managed a pretty decent British accent playing Higgins on Magnum P.I., and Daniel Davis's was okay as Niles in The Nanny. And until I saw him on Smallville I had no idea James Marsters wasn't a brit.
So...maybe the men gotta play butlers or vampires.
it freaked me out that David Anders isn't British. I was so convinced he was when I saw him in Alias and it was only watching an extra on the DVDs i found he was actually from the Pacific North-West!
Jonathan Hillerman managed a pretty decent British accent playing Higgins on Magnum P.I., and Daniel Davis's was okay as Niles in The Nanny. And until I saw him on Smallville I had no idea James Marsters wasn't a brit.
So...maybe the men gotta play butlers or vampires.
James Marsters pronounciation of the word 'poof' on Angel was a dead giveaway that he isn't British.
Jonathan Hillerman managed a pretty decent British accent playing Higgins on Magnum P.I., and Daniel Davis's was okay as Niles in The Nanny. And until I saw him on Smallville I had no idea James Marsters wasn't a brit.
So...maybe the men gotta play butlers or vampires.
James Marsters pronounciation of the word 'poof' on Angel was a dead giveaway that he isn't British.
Not to me. I never claimed to be an expert on British accents (obviously, I'm better at American ones). It just seemed convincing to me.
^ OTOH, Marsters' Irish accent on Hawaii 5-0 was awful. (But I did like his English one)
Jonathan Hillerman managed a pretty decent British accent playing Higgins on Magnum P.I., and Daniel Davis's was okay as Niles in The Nanny. And until I saw him on Smallville I had no idea James Marsters wasn't a brit.
So...maybe the men gotta play butlers or vampires.
James Marsters pronounciation of the word 'poof' on Angel was
a dead giveaway that he isn't British.
Not to me. I never claimed to be an expert on British accents (obviously, I'm better at American ones). It just seemed convincing to me.
I should have said that it was a dead giveaway to any Brit, Australian, New Zealander as it is a commonly used word in those countries etc. However I do concede that the majority of Americans might never have heard the word pronounced.
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Any Monty Python fan knows that “poof” is pronounced to rhyme with “hoof,” not “goof.”
Its early in the morning here and I have been trying to think of a word that rhymes with 'poof'. You are correct 'hoof' does.
I shouldn't try to think too much before even having my first cup of coffee.
I believe that man is a peuf!There's dialect variations, but it's more a cross between 'huff' and 'hoof'.
