Yes! His accent was terrible in this film. He did a decent job in Scarface, but here he often sounds like he just came straight out of the south lmao!
shareI think he did this movie right after Scent of a woman, no? So I can see how his southern accent was still around.
shareAgreed, just sounded plain bad, I've had several Puerto Rican friends, never sounded like that. Surprised, since he did the Cuban accent so well in Scarface. He shoulda just played an Italian.
shareHe was speaking African-American slang of that era, which cracked me up because I'm AA and I've heard black folks talk exactly the way he talked in the film. So his style of speaking was very authentic, which is why I liked it. In fact, if you watch the extras, the author of the book on which Carlito's Way is based, said that since the Puerto Rican and African-American communities in New York lived practically side by side and interacted with each other on a daily basis, they would pick up each other's lingo and culture all the time, so it came naturally.
shareSee yeah at the end in his dying words it sounded like a black guy straight up.
shareI never heard of anyone hispanic with the last name "Brigante", is there even such a name?
Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours