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Accents! Accents! Everywhere!

posted 12 years ago by singjohn
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Robert Duvall does Brit!

Alan Arkin does Austrian!

Vanessa Redgrave does French!

ALL TERRIBLY!

What a shame! I love all these actors. Was there no dialect coach on the set?

[–] stones78 12 years ago

Holmes on cocaine? facepalm. Why tarnish the legend?

[–] LindaY 11 years ago

Um, Holmes did take cocaine...between cases. It's in the canon.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Exactly.

[–] Dial_M 12 years ago

"Robert Duvall does Brit!"

No such thing as a British accent.

Barbados was a British colony, thus part of The British Isles marco26 (Age 55)

[–] singjohn 11 years ago

"No such thing as a British accent."

Certainly not the way Robert Duvall did it in this movie!

[–] gribfritz2 8 years ago

Well he couldn't very well say Robert Duvall does English! It makes it sound like the man normally spoke Portuguese or something.

[–] spookyrat1 11 years ago

Was there no dialect coach on the set?

The film was a generally light-hearted pastiche...Sherlock Holmes meeting Sigmund Freud after all. I don't think it necessarily required dialogue coaches. May be they were there, may be they weren't. E.G. I personally found it quietly amusing hearing Robert Duvall do a thoroughly English accent.

[–] ElizabethJoestar (946) 3 years ago

I agree, the accents are all pretty bad, especially Duvall's.