I'd love to see this film but Viggo's terrible attempt at a New York accent ruins it for me.
shareIt sounded convincing to me but I'm no New Yorker. And everyone speaks differently!
shareA lot of New Yorkers speak just like that. My late uncle had a thick accent like that ... like some black people like to exaggerate their black-English some New Yorkers love to ham up their accents. Anyway, I enjoyed the movie and thought his accent was not something that distracted me a bit. My best picture of the year nomination.
share@brux: agreed. Obviously the first 2 posters haven't spent much time in New York. I'm a native New Yorker and spent my colleage years working with Italian-Americans. There's nothing exaggerated or phony about Viggo's accent. It's on the money.
shareI think Viggo is playing an archetypal sort of NY character so they wanted a heavy accent.
shareNew Yorkers from that era had stronger, borough-specific accents. These have toned down over time.
shareI’m not American but I thought his Italian-American accent sounded bang on to me compared to how I’ve heard it in other movies and TV shows
shareI thought the working-class New York Italian dialect from that era was excellent especially Viggo and the wife. Not everyone can pull it off.
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