He's the patriarch of this traditional American family that have been rich and powerful for generations, so what's with the accent? Walken clearly doesn't have an American accent. Anyone with working ears can tell he wasn't born/raised in America.
Major plot hole, but other than that this film was solid.
I thought he played the character very well. He was meant to be over the top with his accent, and trying to sound all political. Its when, at the end, when he's telling Sack (Bradley Cooper) that she stands by her daughter that he lets it go a bit.
shareWhat in the WORLD are you talking about? It wasn't Christopher Walken being "over the top with his accent, and trying to sound all political", it was just Walken talking like Walken. He wasn't trying to do anything. He just clearly has a foreign accent.
shareWhat are YOU talking about? Walken was born and raised in America.
shareYea where is all this foreign accent *beep* coming from. He just has a funny speech pattern, it's not the words that are being said funny. Sometimes he accents syllables with a little more inflection than normal but it's not like the words themselves are being changed. Not the first time I've heard this either, people need some Walken knowledge dropped on them.
shareHe sounds American to me and if the OP thinks an American politician from a rich family should sound more cultured he's obviously never heard of the Kennedys.
I've had a lot of sobering thoughts in my time Del Boy, it's them that started me drinking!
Wow! Everyone knows that Walken is from New York and he sounds like it!!
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
I was born in raised in New York City, and I've never met anyone who sounds even close to Walken.
shareLol!! I was born and raised on the left coast and I thought he sounded like a New Yorker before I even knew he that IS a New Yorker!!
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
Well take it from a native- no one here talks like that. He's definitely not even American raised.
shareHe's definitely not even American raised.
TrapLordRonSwanson (Tue Nov 10 2015 10:19:42)
Well take it from a native- no one here talks like that.
He's definitely not even American raised.
Walken was born in Astoria, Queens, to Rosalie (Russell), a Scottish immigrant, and Paul Walken, a German immigrant who ran Walken's Bakery.share
His mother, Rosalie, was Scottish-American. She lived to be 102 years old (May 16, 1907 - March 26, 2010).
Said in an interview (July 2005) with the German magazine "Der Spiegel" that his father was a German baker from Essen, Germany.
“My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.”
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm