Virtually nothing about him was "coplike". Not his demeanor, haircut, attitude, job performance, build, etc. Nothing. It's like the character was supposed to be a garbageman, but they changed it to cop at the last second for NO reason. Oh, and his ACCENT? Really?
shareReally? My Dad is a cop and they come in all different shapes and sizes. I thought he was kind of cop like.
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OK, fair enough - there are all different kinds of cops. And sometimes it's shocking to see what passes for a cop these days, usually when the guy's grossly overweight. But a doughy, indifferent (crossword puzzles while he's operating his speed trap), unprofessional (sitting on the hood of his squad car?) guy who sounded right off the boat?
shareYes, all that was definitely wrong. He did not behave like a cop at all, you are right about that.
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I'm watching, mostly just listening to this movie right now. Don't know about the accent. Are cops required to be born and raised here? Probably not. But he's got an average or above average body for the cops I see. Crosswords and sitting on the hood is nothing really. Cops hang out all over the place, usually parked somewhere talking to other cops. I see them using the computer all the time while they're driving too.
shareHe's a big enough guy. I don't see the problem either.
shareWhen it comes to unprofessional, my hometown is horrible! Our locals make deals with the working girls, and sadly have the worse southern accents, they rip off drug dealers. I totally loved this guys accent, it was so charming that I didn't mind the short hair especially because of the curls
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None of these complaints are valid.
Expiration dates are mere suggestions! Like late fees and traffic lights.
He was a borderline slob. He would do well as a security guard, but never a cop.
shareThere was nothing slob-like about him. He was tall, youngish, not overweight. Obviously fast and fit enough to deal with drunk or speeding drivers.
Expiration dates are mere suggestions! Like late fees and traffic lights.
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Yeah, some of the cops in my area are overweight. Some even have a gut or are practically obese. I think only the ones just out of the Academy are fit, because they have to go through rigorous training. My brother-in-law as fit as fvck when he graduated from the Academy in 2006 and now is very overweight. That's 'cause they mostly live sedentary lives, i.e. sitting in the cruiser, milling about.
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Yeah, some of the cops in my area are overweight. Some even have a gut or are practically obese. I think only the ones just out of the Academy are fit, because they have to go through rigorous training. My brother-in-law as fit as fvck when he graduated from the Academy in 2006 and now is very overweight. That's 'cause they mostly live sedentary lives, i.e. sitting in the cruiser, milling about.
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I had no problem with him being a cop. His accent is real though, not a put-on. Most movies use the stereotype of a cop, it's kind of refreshing to see one that breaks the mould.
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shareI could definitely buy Chris O'Dowd as a cop. He's tall, broad-shouldered and relatively fit.
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His accent irritated me, and I'm Irish. I could hear little Americanisms in it, which he probably picked up from hanging around the cast (weak minded) but also having to say lines written by an American (so in "American English" if you will, like that annoying "Rilly?" they're all saying now since Sex and the City).
I suppose if an Irish guy had been in the US long enough to become a cop then he would have picked up a twang, but I still find that annoying. I have lived outside Ireland almost forty years and have fought to retain my accent.
I was also a police officer for thirty years, and I wasn't a robot. I wasn't into crossword puzzles, but I did hide in my patrol car and read a book quite often, plus gave lifts to people I shouldn't have. I think this character was a caricature - for instance, a simple thing like when she drove into the rear of his patrol car would have had him writing for days to explain it, and someone would have reported her driving up and down misbehaving while he sat there and did nothing (oh yes, people can't wait to get on their mobile phones and report you).
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she barely touched the car, it was more of a bump so he wouldn't have to explain any marks. They were out in the middle of nowhere when she was pulling off the car pranks so there was nobody to see it.
Maybe he just didn't 'fight' to keep his accent as strong as you did. He still sounded Irish to me.
Thanks for your perspective!
shareWoah --- you think it's "weak minded" if someone who spends a lot of time around other people's strong accent starts picking up parts of that accent?
I think that's harsh and not true.
I'm not sure if perhaps I myself am "weak minded" -- I really don't know. Perhaps I am. Except for the fact that I've been through some horrendously tough things in life and I appear to have been a very strong minded person indeed. Friends have even called me "strong minded".
But --- hmmm --- I'm British and lived in the United States for twenty years and yes, my accent very much took on Americanisms. I didn't care and I didn't fight it.
Because, I considered that this was my new home, my chosen home, my adopted home, and that I would be there for the rest of my life, fully embracing life there.
Why not integrate fully, even down to one's accent, as long as that is naturally happening rather than forced or faked?
I wouldn't recommend anyone force that if it's artificial. But if it DOES happen naturally over the course of years frankly I think it's silly and in fact even more artificial to "fight to retain" one's original accent.
It happened organically to me. And let me tell you, if, every day of your life, conversations with strangers or the wait person are getting halted and held up because they understandably don't know what I meant by asking for "a glahhhse of wuhhtaaahhhh" instead of a glass of water, you pretty quickly see the practicality of deciding that "glahhses of wuhhtaaahhhh" is going to be a big drag for the next 20 to fifty years of your life there.
It would be as bad as also fighting to retain one's old vocabulary. Can you imagine if I lived there for 20 years insisting on talking to auto mechanics about the "boot and the bonnet" rather than the hood and the trunk?
I had to use some different words and it also integrated me into life there to allow my accent to blend also. I didn't do it deliberately nor do I think it's a sign of "weak mindedness" in some way. I feel it's a sign of full integration into another country.
Something that A LOT of people seem to refuse to do these days. . . . .
This is a really stupid post. Not all cops are big burly men with beer bellies, with a New Yawwwk accent and a donut in their hand.
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