Brad Pitt's voice
does any one know if someone dubbed for brad pitt? it didnt seem like his voice and it realy sounded authentic irish!
Ha ha. Authentic? Get a grip, it was about as authentic as that Gucci watch you bought on holiday for $10.
shareTo answer that, no, he didn't sound authentic, unless you mean "new york american I'm most definitely irish because my great great great grandfather was possibly born there and my family have lived in the irish district ever since" then yes it was absolutely perfect, otherwise it was a bad accent. I can do better with a few sentences practise. It was brad pitt doing the voice.
shareyou know, I don't think his accent was that bad. Certainly not one of the worst Irish accents ever.
shareI agree with you. I think Pitt's accent was quite good. There have been so many REALLY BAD Irish accents in movies (think Tom Cruise in Far and Away) and I remember reading an article in People magazine where they showed some of the Hollywood movies with big stars doing Irish accents to folks in an Irish Pub. Then asked them whose accents were most realistic and the concensus was that Pitt's was the best. Albeit he was up against some very bad accents, but one of the pub-sters said Pitt was excellent. I think many are just anti-Brad Pitt.
shareHave you seen "Snatch"? Do you think he improved his accent?
shareI loved Snatch - it is one in my personal library. I think he does a great job in it, but it's not really an Irish accent (he's a gypsy). I work at a video store and many people complained that they couldn't understand him, but I thought that was sort of the point of his character - you weren't really supposed to understand him but only understand what he's feeling. Great movie!
share"Now there was a problem with Pikeys or Gypsies. Can't really understand much of what is being said. It's not Irish. It's not English. It's just, well, it's just Pikey."
--Turkish (Snatch)
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The character in Snatch isn't really a Gypsy, he's an Irish traveller. Gypsys are Roma and they came from India during the middle ages. Travellers are basically Irish people that couldnt get their land back after the Famine and didnt bother emmigrating and started roaming the roads(thus creating a confusion with Gypsys).
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Irish travellers are called many different things such as Pavees, Knackers, Tinkers, and Travellers. Jayus Johnnie the horse is after gettin away.
shareI think because Brad Pitt is so incredibly good looking, that his acting abilitites are overshadowed. He is really a good actor and has worked to avoid typecasting as just a pretty face. I have yet to see him in a movie where I am not impressed by his acting and I am always pleased when he tackles a role that is different.
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I remember reading an article in People magazine where they showed some of the Hollywood movies with big stars doing Irish accents to folks in an Irish Pub. Then asked them whose accents were most realistic and the concensus was that Pitt's was the best.
I remember that. If I remember correctly Richard Gere came in last for his accent in The Jackal.
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I was wondering when someone would bring up The Jackal! That accent was horrific.
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he didn't sound authentic, unless you mean "new york american" Becasue Brad Pitt is from New York?
His accent was fine people will always bitch about something. I remember people say Angela Lansbury "English accent is the worst ever" and not realising that she is from England, she just spent years in America so people said that she sucked.
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Over 11 years on. It's very hard to take off the northern Ireland accent I think he did a good enough job with it.
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I thought he sounded too self conscious of it throughout ....
LOL good post mate, it always cracks me up when yanks claim to be irish. To be fair i couldnt see much wrong with brad pitts accent but then again im english so i dont know. I can tell a northern irish and southern irish accent apart but thats the extent of my knowledge
shareSouth or North, you can't beat the people who TRY to do the Irish Accent that live in the very northwest part of England. I think they call it Georgian? It used to take me two watchings of each movie to get the full meaning because I didn't understand it that well.
Now that I have become a Catherine Cookson fan, I pick it up quite easily in the movies I have by her.
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shareI heard that there was some article about Belfast natives being shown various clips of American actors doing Irish accents, and all of them saying that Brad Pitt's performance in 'The Devil's Own' was the most accurate.
His accent was fine people will always bitch about something. I remember people say Angela Lansbury "English accent is the worst ever" and not realising that she is from England, she just spent years in America so people said that she sucked.
LOL They must have felt like morons afterward. share
Angela Lansbury's "English" accent is just fine (you can even hear it coming through her American accent). It's her Cockney accent that sucks.
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