Does anyone know what accent his character of 'Frank' was supposed to have?
It's a mess.
Whoever cast this dude needs shooting. If his accent wasn't bad enough, the fact he chose to mumble all his lines incoherently throughout was extremely annoying.
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The accent was distracting but I didn't get his overall demeanor. He seemed a little...off, whether mentally challenged or extremely socially awkward. I wasn't sure what was going on with him, nor whether it was intentional.
shareI didn't get his overall demeanor. He seemed a little...off, whether mentally challenged or extremely socially awkward. I wasn't sure what was going on with him, nor whether it was intentional.
I must say I agree with you wholeheartedly! I just fell in love with him. He reminds me so much of a young Brad Pitt. I also clearly saw how his and Eleanor's lonely isolation is what attracted them to each other in the first place. Beautifully nuanced performance! He's going to be a huge star.
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I take it you're not a female, or gay.
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That was an ill conceived joke. Sorry. No, but he has that rare beauty that some young men possess between boyhood and adulthood. Look at early Pitt. In "Interview with the Vampire" he wasn't the SBLG type. With not a rippling muscle in sight he was just as skinny, tall, pale, and as androgynous looking as Caleb Landry Jones in this movie. But he was still drop dead gorgeous. I may be an older woman, and I do love my more mature Brad. (I still have dreams about him, but Angie just can't butt out! What's that about?) I just know that in some shots, when he wasn't sick, he was absolutely adorable. That may sound a little creepy, but no matter how old you get you can still admire the beauty of Michaelangelo's "David", and Rodin's "The Kiss," and also admire the beauty of young man.
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Hahaha! Thank you for the validation that I'm not a freak. Yes Neil does have a thing for those pretty young boys. Hey, I'm not complaining either. I may be older, but there's still a teenage girl inside me. She'll never age like my body will. And he is 24. He's not a child anymore. Now that would be creepy!. Yeesh!!
shareI agree with this totally, and I'm slightly taken aback by the number of people ready to discard an actor because his speech is not clear enough. He wasn't even mumbling that much - I'm not a native speaker and I had no problems understanding him.
Then again, maybe his character was simply too finely nuanced to go through, for many viewers. He was a mix of seclusion-bred social awkwardness, juvenile naivety, deep-hearted kindness and teenage raging hormones, which is the stuff that makes a character feel human and real. Of course, this also means that he was a far cry from the archetypes we're used to see in this kind of role, which would partially explain the dislike.
Now I'm curious to see how much of this was natural good acting, and how much it was Neil Jordan squeezing the best acting out of his cast. I hope Caleb is really this good. I hope I'll get to see more of it in the future.
there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder
The kid has a weird accent. He had kinda of a weird accent in X-men First Class as well. Maybe it is just the mumbling. Otherwise he is OK.
And he looks very Irish with his...complexion and hair colour so he fit right in with the rest of the cast...
Extremely annoying affected performance.
Like some kind of perversion of the Heath Ledger school of acting.
Totally agree with Simon. What an incoherent mess. Badly cast.
shareYeah, this was a pretty poor attempt if it was supposed to be English. Some seem to argue that he's from somewhere else and assume that that other place is America and therefore this is an attempt at the 'mid-Atlantic' tones of Bramericans like the Osbourne kids. No - sorry - it's not even that good.
When he first arrived (never having seen the actor before) I assumed he was Eastern European or possibly a teutonic twang. It wasn't even just the appalling (if it was SERIOUSLY anything else but an attempt at that) accent though, it was the weird nasal, mumbly delivery too. I initially assumed that Ella had found some kind of random 'Igor' and that there were 'familiars' for the Vampires in this iteration as there sometimes are in other Vampire-based films. When I realised they were presenting him as a real, 'normal' human I did despair of the film for a few minutes but luckily I enjoyed just about everything and everybody else, so one incredibly weak spot didn't ruin it completely for me.
I never thought I'd say this but "Come back Keanu, all is forgiven." He may have been *beep* at an English accent too (and Winona Rider wasn't exactly flawless either) but even though he couldn't hit it with a scatter-gun, at least you could tell what accent he'd been aiming for.
I thought his accent was annoying too
shareI thought his accent was annoying, I found him annoying as well
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Awful accent and a scruffy git to boot, bad casting.
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