St. Vincent : Great movie…except for the accents

The horrible accents (Bill, Naomi) added nothing to the movie. The overall execution of the film would have been perfect had each actor just used their normal voice. The accents were distracting the entire film.and no one else they interact with have accents? Hello!

The good news, the film is still great. Great writing and directing. Hats off. Must see.

Sorry totally disagree. Watts nailed the Russian accent or would you prefer her Australian one. As for Murray I thought that was clise to his normal accent.

You beat me to it. Enjoyed the film a lot, but the accents were a bit over the top, to the point of distraction.

Those who criticize the accents, I think, have never been to Brooklyn, N.Y.

And as for that priests accent. Give me a break

Chris O'Dowd who played the Priest is Irish.He has played an American in several Films such as Bridesmaids.

Wasn't he using his original accent in that film too?

Hilarious. Chris O'Dowd is Irish that's the way he speaks in real life.

I think Naomi Watts' accent was fine. Bill Murray's was inconsistent, though.



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Your username is an irish insult. You should know better.

I know right - he NAILED it! Could be down to the fact he IS an Irishman playing an Irish priest, therefore sounded perfectly Irish in his performance.



I'm sorry, I wasn't aware this is the Internet BOOK Database.

The "priest's" accent was real.






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Criticizing an Irish actor's Irish accent; you, sir are a buffoon.

I didn't notice the accents. I thought Bill Murray was talking the way he always does. I was more into what they were saying and doing rather than how they were saying it anyway. But then I don't have a stick up my butt.

Noticing accents means you have a stick up your butt? If you didn't notice Naomi Watts was speaking in a Russian accent you might want to have your ears checked.

Clearly most of you dont know russian language or the way russians speaks english, and that is completely understandable. Naomi was ok for the non-speaking russian language audience, she is a great actress and her vocal coach did his job really well, but overall her accent was far from the original pronouncing. The best result for viewers, IMHO, is by far FX series "The Americans" - when you use russians to talk on their language, that gives much more authenticity and credibility on the character - at least for some of us, who know how the russians talk on their and on english language. Just my 2 cents.

Naomi accent was fine, I don't give a toss how close it was to a real Russian accent. What was wrong was the quite obvious prosthetic belly she had.

its a great little enjoyable film

When they were at the track and Murray referred to a bovine as a "hause", then in the very next scene, pronounced it as "horse", I started feeling the same way.

I learned English (birth through first grade) in Californiathen moved to Wisconsin/Minnesota until teenage/adulthood and I catch myself flip flopping between the two accents all the time. I later lived in England for 3 years and some words started going that route (Modonna-ish I know, I hate myself).

To me, Murray's character was Brooklyn(his character) and Chicago(his natural)but flip flopping isn't impossible in real lifein my personal experience.

Bovine are cows. Equines are horses.

At the very beginning Bill Murray was speaking with a very strong accent, then in the scene where the movers wreck his fence he just sounded like normal Bill Murray. That's when I knew he was most likely going to be drifting in and out of it for most of the film.

At the very beginning Bill Murray was speaking with a very strong accent, then in the scene where the movers wreck his fence he just sounded like normal Bill Murray.

Yeah. I thought he was doing a Boston Accent until I saw the bus said Sheepshead.


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I had exactly the same reaction! And I grew up with people from Brooklyn. I enjoyed the film, but his accent switches were distracting.

That's the way the characters talk.
Accents were not bad at all IMO

Whenever people complain about accents I wonder why they don't notice that no two people in the real world speak exactly like each other, and some people speak very differently from most other people (including amongst those with whom they "share an accent," and everyone has some accent or other).

Not that films need to be realist, of course, but the complaints are always on realist grounds, and they always seem to get reality wrong.



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People have to complain about something I suppose. The only time I would really even notice or care about an accent being off is if they kept switching from a foreign accent to an American accent or vice versa. I speak with 2 accents naturally from having parents from the North, but growing up in the South. Some words I say with a Northern pronunciation and sometimes I have a Southern drawl. Some of my friends don't sound like they are from the South at all and some have very thick accents.

Who Cares.

My wife has a strange accent, too, in that she's from South Africa (she can equally speak Afrikaans, English and Hindi), but even to other South Africans she always sounded more British than South African for some reasonand when I first met her I assumed she was British, too (although she wouldn't sound British to most Brits), and now that she's lived in New York for the past 20 years, she also slips in and out of a stereotypical New Yorker accent at timesshe'll say things like "wahduh" for "water" for example.

I think my accent is a bit odd/difficult to place as well, maybe partially from growing up half in Cleveland and half in South Florida in an unusual situation where I interacted equally with rednecks, ghetto folks and rich kids from Palm Beach as well as a lot of other middle class transplants like my family. Although for some reason when I was first on the road (I'm a musician) in the 1980s, a number of people in places like Idaho thought that I sounded British (and they didn't think that about anyone else in the band) . . . never could figure that one out, though, haha.

I've also been in New York City for the past 20 years, although I don't know if I've picked up much of that New Yorker accent.



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I like Naomi's accent. It was one of the most amusing aspects of the movie. "How you know, you are not rocket surgeon."

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I agree, wholeheartedly.

I agree. When he's cheering at the track it completely disappears.

But the movie really carries you above and beyond the accents. Great film.

I specifically came to this IMDb page to see if anyone else noticed this. Bill Murray's awful attempt at a Brooklyn accent is making this movie unwatchable. Not even CLOSE to any accent in the northeast.

I would just like to say that not everyone in Brooklyn speaks with the same accent. I know for I lived there once. Sometimes people pick up bits of an accent and thread it between their own way of talking and true heavy accented Brooklyners also pick up bits of other accents if they work and live amongst them.

So, you think Naomi Watts English accent would have been appropriate for a Russian immigrant? And that Bill Murray's Chicago accent would have been appropriate for a New Yorker? Logic doesn't enter into your reasoning then, does it?

At first, I thought Bill was trying a Boston accent.

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