Worst. Accents. Ever.
Hollywood so often gets it wrong, but here are my Top 5 bad accents of film history:
5) Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany's - Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man. 'Nuff said.
4) Brad Pitt in Seven Years In Tibet - Brad sounds like he took his accent lessons from Arnold Schwartzenegger. Vhile he vas eating ein sausage.
3) Robert Downey Jr in Natural Born Killers - Was he South African? Was he Australian? Was he just shit? Since he was playing a news reporter for an American network, why was he anything?
2) Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven (and Twelve) - Cheadle's cockney accent was so forced, I kept waiting for one of the other characters to turn to him and say "would you please drop the fake cockney bit?". Standing by the old Hollywood maxim, "if you've got nothing else to make him special, give your character an accent!"
1) Russell Crowe in Gladiator - "G'day, I'm bloody Maxibon Areola". How this guy won an Oscar for this is beyond me. I wouldn't have given him an Oscar the Grouch. I mean, they didn't have to make the movie in Latin, but...Come to think of it, they didn't have to make this movie at all.
Anybody have their own? I can think of two that didn't make the top 5. If I can come up with three more, I'll round it out to a top 10.
An actor's actual speaking voice doesn't count, by the way, otherwise John Leguzamo would be numbers 3 - 1.
5) Mickey Rooney in Breakfast At Tiffany's - Mickey Rooney as a Japanese man. 'Nuff said.
4) Brad Pitt in Seven Years In Tibet - Brad sounds like he took his accent lessons from Arnold Schwartzenegger. Vhile he vas eating ein sausage.
3) Robert Downey Jr in Natural Born Killers - Was he South African? Was he Australian? Was he just shit? Since he was playing a news reporter for an American network, why was he anything?
2) Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven (and Twelve) - Cheadle's cockney accent was so forced, I kept waiting for one of the other characters to turn to him and say "would you please drop the fake cockney bit?". Standing by the old Hollywood maxim, "if you've got nothing else to make him special, give your character an accent!"
1) Russell Crowe in Gladiator - "G'day, I'm bloody Maxibon Areola". How this guy won an Oscar for this is beyond me. I wouldn't have given him an Oscar the Grouch. I mean, they didn't have to make the movie in Latin, but...Come to think of it, they didn't have to make this movie at all.
Anybody have their own? I can think of two that didn't make the top 5. If I can come up with three more, I'll round it out to a top 10.
An actor's actual speaking voice doesn't count, by the way, otherwise John Leguzamo would be numbers 3 - 1.
posted by Jase at 11:27 PM
1 Comments:
The Worst accent I have ever heard in a movie was definately Kent Riley in The Patty Duke Show - Still Rocking In Brooklyn Heights.
He plays Liam McAllister.
Horrible, horrible, horrible I tells ya!
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