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Finalist: Sean Connery Worst Russian Accent Of All Time Award

posted 10 years ago by mail-2217
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Whoever they hired to play 'Fontaine' is a finalist for the Worst Russian Accent Of All Time Achievement In Cinema Award.

(The prize is a microwaved can of borscht. Sean Connery has been retired from competition after knocking it out of the park in Hunt For Red October.)

This guy kept going in and out of some spanish dialect... to some vague slavic deal... and then back.... and forth.

He reminded me of 'The Worlds Most Interesting Man' in those beer commercials. Totally off-putting.

[–] stillwaterguard 10 years ago

You have to realize that the guy playing "Fontaine" is a Mexican trying to speak English with a Russian accent? Yeah, not the best, but kinda like Joaquim de Almeida who is Portuguese and has played all different kinds of nationalities in his movie, the accent kind of works.

If you think this guy has the worst Russian accent you've ever heard, I take it you haven't seen Rounders with John Malkovich?

[–] mail-2217 10 years ago

Yeah, I vaguely remember that movie. Or rather I recall thinking "this Malkovich is supposed to be some 'genius thespian' WTF is going on with this Boris Badunov impression?" :D

[–] movie_nazi 10 years ago

If you think this guy has the worst Russian accent you've ever heard, I take it you haven't seen Rounders with John Malkovich?

Malkovich's is no where near as bad as this guy's.

My Vote history: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1914996/ratings

[–] DontTrollMeBro 10 years ago

lol, all along I thought he was just playing a Mexican pretending to be Russian. It was that bad. I thought it was deliberate.

[–] Chucktesta2574 10 years ago

He doesn't always speak with a Russian accent, but when he does, it's terrible. Stay thirsty my friends.

[–] Chromwagner 10 years ago

'It is water under the bridge' gave me shivers :)

[–] kenselinerdayalog 9 years ago

I don't think Demian Bichir as Mr. Fontaine, made a bad performance, on the contrary, he created quite an impressive & solid character by fine tuning it. Pity though he had to vanish too soon off the screen (hope we see him any way in the next sequel, cause this movie deserves at list one more).
And his accent was o.k.
There are so many Russian's immigrants accents all around the world, which mix with the local languages, it's really impossible to look for the "good" ones.
It is almost like fingertips...and those of D.B. were more then "good" for me.