{"id":546,"date":"2007-08-22T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2007\/08\/22\/worst-fake-accents-in-film\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:37:09","slug":"worst-fake-accents-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2007\/08\/worst-fake-accents-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst fake accents in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For John and Marjorie:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/146968068\/worst_fake_accents_i.html\">bOINGbOING: Worst fake accents in film<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong>David Pescovitz<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Deputydog posted a great selection of &#8220;13 of the worst fake accents in film,&#8221; including YouTube clips where available. Readers have suggested dozens of others in the comments, which is where you should post your &#8220;nominees&#8221; too! From the Deputydog post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>keanu reeves &#8211; dracula<\/strong><br \/>\ni was tempted not to even mention this one due to the fact that he\u2019s not an actor. it\u2019s just a given that he\u2019ll never be able to imitate someone with an english accent because he can\u2019t imitate anything unless it has no emotion, voice or physical presence. and to say yes to the part after finding out the gary oldman is gonna share scenes with you and make you look even worse is just acting suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/images\/poppins-1.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"409\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Poppins-1\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>dick van dyke &#8211; mary poppins<\/strong><br \/>\nthere\u2019s a reason why dick\u2019s performance in mary poppins is always mentioned when the subject of shit movie accents is brought up: because it\u2019s absolutely hilariously bad. if the director had said to him before the film, \u201clisten dick, i want you to do a comedy cockney accent throughout filming. don\u2019t take it seriously.\u201d he still couldn\u2019t have done a worse accent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deputy-dog.com\/?p=90\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For John and Marjorie: bOINGbOING: Worst fake accents in film: David Pescovitz: Deputydog posted a great selection of &#8220;13 of the worst fake accents in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-8O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}