Accents Impersonated

[LatinaAlumna]

Originally posted by OUlioness01
TOP TEN WORST MOVIE ACCENTS
1. Sean Connery in The Untouchables (1987)
2. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (1964)
3. Brad Pitt in Seven Year in Tibet (1997)
4. Charlton Heston in A Touch of Evil (1958)
5. Heather Graham in From Hell (2001)
6. Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
7. Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly (1996)
8. Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer (1980)
9. Pete Postlethwaite in The Usual Suspects (1995)
10. Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)
Source: Empire magazine

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_795416.html?menu=

They forgot one....Marisa Tomei in "The Perez Family." I watched that movie to write a paper in school. Don't even get me started on people who are not Latino that use fake Latino accents.

I worked with this non-Latina when I was a teenager who tried to dress and speak like a gangmember, complete with all the "orale ese" and "ju know"s and the whole nine. Finally I asked her what her background was, and she asked why. I said, "because you have a really strong Spanish accent."

I know most Latinos are embarrased by gangmembers, so I have no idea why someone of another background would want to emulate them, fake accent and all.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
The thing with Sean Connery is that he NEVER does an accent. it does not matter the role he is playing he has never tried to put on an accent. You will always hear his Scottish accent.

Mmm... Sean Connery is yummy for an old guy!

[Cloud9]

Now THIS is the absolute worst as far as accents go, and I've unfortunately come acrosss it more than once

You hear someone talking with the most AWFUL stereotypical accent. You think, "oh jeez, what is UP with this person, don't they know how stupid they sound, noone actually talks like that in real life..."

And that's when you realize --- the HORROR!

That dreadful charicature of speech is how they actually talk.

[sugar and spice]

Here's an article that I thought was interesting, about racial miscasting in Hollywood (the mention of Marisa Tomei reminded me of it):

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/arch...iscasting.html

No doubt many, many of the movies there include horrible accents. And how could we forget Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's?


As for my accent -- it's pretty much generic Midwestern. It's annoying when people claim that Wisconsinites (and Minnesotans, for that matter) all have Fargo accents, because almost none of us do. Only those who live very very far north in Wisconsin and Minnesota (when I say north, I mean pretty much along the Canadian border) and in the U.P. of Michigan speak like that . . . the rest of us speak perfectly normally.

I'm sure all of us think it's stupid when people make broad generalizations regarding accents. Even I can tell that a Texas accent sounds nothing like a Georgia one . . . everybody else should be able to figure that out too.

[AlphaFrog]

I've noticed that most national commericals and generic TV Shows (ones that don't have a spesific location - AKA Simpsons) use the midwestern accent and I've been told that it's because it's the easiest to understand.

I have a question for carnation- what about people who grow up speaking several languages... what happens to their hard palate? I'm just curious...I'm an opera singer and so the hard palate is very importaint to me, and opera is in many different languages, so I have to sing in forgien languages/accents...

[lovelyivy84]

When I was younger there was a commercial for Ham that used a West Indian accent.

Something about sugarcane or whatever.

That commercial damn near drove me to throw my tv out the window. All I know is that the actor better never find himself stranded in the upper BX, or there are a LOT of folk from JA willing to give him a taste of the islands "mon".

I am used to it at this point. Every little teen from the suburbs bought Bob Marley's Legend album and thinks they know all about the "spirit of Jamaica". Love when they ask me if "we" all smoke weed.

I don't have one accent in partiular. In general I speak the King's English. When I am with my friends I speak however I feel comfortable speaking, and that might involve using the word "like"excessively, or it might involve me saying "nah son", or it might involve me saying "that is UNacceptable". Whatever I feel like at the moment.

I don't even TRY to speak patois outside of my home and my parents are from JA. I can understand it, but as a true Yankee you won't find me doing it unless I am with my family. If people want to sound retarded doing bad West Indian accents I really can't stop them. I just don't get their point. You've never even seen JA on a map. Why must you try? If that is one's idea of humor then they have issues

[tinydancer]

There's a teacher at my school like that. She's from Oklahoma but she talks with this fake-ass Miss Cleo accent. No one from her family talks like her. It is soooo annoying.

[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by tinydancer
There's a teacher at my school like that. She's from Oklahoma but she talks with this fake-ass Miss Cleo accent. No one from her family talks like her. It is soooo annoying.

See I couldn't really ever be bothered by Miss Cleo because it was soooo fake. She was a tv psychic. Come on. Even people in the Mid-West who've never seen a picture of a West Indian (other than Bob Marley) knew her accent was fake.

I am just convinced that people can't hear themselves. No one who could hear their own words would do it.

[tinydancer]

I wish this teacher could hear how she sounds. Honestly, I just cringe when she comes in the library to ask something. She must think Miss Cleo is real.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by lovelyivy84
See I couldn't really ever be bothered by Miss Cleo because it was soooo fake. She was a tv psychic. Come on. Even people in the Mid-West who've never seen a picture of a West Indian (other than Bob Marley) knew her accent was fake.

I am just convinced that people can't hear themselves. No one who could hear their own words would do it.

I heard this song by DJ Jumbo called Coco Jumbo. These are the lyrics:

ya ya ye coco jumbo
ya ya ye

ya ya ye coco jumbo
ya ya ye

put me up
put me down
put my feet back on the ground
put up take my heart and makes
me happy

put me up
put me down
put my feet back on the ground
put up steal my heart and makes
me happy

-Rudey
--All Jamaican people talk like this and you know it.

[lovelyivy84]

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Thanks for the heads up Rudey.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
They forgot one....Marisa Tomei in "The Perez Family." I watched that movie to write a paper in school. Don't even get me started on people who are not Latino that use fake Latino accents.

Don't forget Kevin Costner in that Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves movies (lawd help us) and

Madonna in that "baby having movie "The Next Best Thing with Rupert Everett (eek! Madonna doing an English accent is just WRONG).