Gladiator II

[Sherlock Holmes]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Damn it goes against everything you have been taught, it must be hard.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Damn it goes against everything you have been taught, it must be hard.

It's crap, bad acting, simple as that.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

It's crap, bad acting, simple as that.

Why? Because a black man is the star. Denzel's record speaks for itself.

 

[Auld Phart]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

not sure if I'll watch it or not, but the instance of something like that I'v e seen was watching Tony Curtis, with his Brooklyn accent portraying a Viking

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

They should have cast Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Why? Because a black man is the star. Denzel's record speaks for itself.

Idiot, I was decrying his accent inabilities not his skin color - asshole, take reading lessons dingbat.

 

[Rambunctious]

Some movies are too perfect to try and make a sequel... and Gladiator is one of them...

 

[Rambunctious]

The relationship and fast bond between the general and the African slave was epic... you can't recreate that kind of thing...

 

[rightwinger]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

Denzel Washington is a great actor

I got news for you. Gladiators in Ancient Rome did not have English accents.

 

[Hellokitty]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

Completely agree. I cringed at Joaquin Phoenix, who I love, voice in Napoleon.

 

[struth]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

I think he is a great actor, and I did enjoy the first film...so I'll be watching it.

Since this is taking place in Anicent Rome, I didn't expect it to be with British accents....nor in Latin.

So I think I'll be ok.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

This may come as a shock...

... but they also didn't speak English, in Ancient Rome.

I am curious what accent you think Denzel Washington should use when playing a native Latin speaker who is speaking English in Ancient Rome, haha

Latin accent?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Denzel Washington is a great actor

I agree, but he's inept at accents something anyone acting as other people, needs to do.

I got news for you. Gladiators in Ancient Rome did not have English accents.

No they did not, but theatre about Rome began in Britain centuries before the United States existed and naturally was performed in English at that time, for example Shakespeare.

The English language existed too at the time Rome occupied Britain.

So Washington speaking English is fine, but the presence of a New York accent makes a mockery of this, a New York accent in a movie about Ancient Rome is as bad as a Western with people speaking Latin.

Denzel Washington cannot do accents it seems and so choosing him was rather stupid, they could have chosen (as I said) any decent Black actor who can do English with a credible accent, an accent that existed at the time being depicted.

American actors are usually crap at accents, British actors are often much better trained in this area.

The classic "BBC accent" is just a tradition used in theatrical depictions of ancient Rome and Greece, it's just the way it is.

So long as the accent is itself ancient I'm good and New York doesn't cut it.

Marlon Brando is a notable exception his accent in this film was impeccable, he must have worked hard to achieve it:

 

[rightwinger]

I agree, but he's inept at accents something anyone acting as other people, needs to do.

No they did not, but theatre about Rome began in Britain centuries before the United States existed and naturally was performed in English at that time, for example Shakespeare.

The English language existed too at the time Rome occupied Britain.

So Washington speaking English is fine, but the presence of a New York accent makes a mockery of this, a New York accent in a movie about Ancient Rome is as bad as a Western with people speaking Latin.

Denzel Washington cannot do accents it seems and so choosing him was rather stupid, they could have chosen (as I said) any decent Black actor who can do English with a credible accent, an accent that existed at the time being depicted.

American actors are usually crap at accents, British actors are often much better trained in this area.

The classic "BBC accent" is just a tradition used in theatrical depictions of ancient Rome and Greece, it's just the way it is.

So long as the accent is itself ancient I'm good and New York doesn't cut it.

Marlon Brando is a notable exception his accent in this film was impeccable, he must have worked hard to achieve it:

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I have never seen a Denzel Washington role I did not enjoy
And no, I don’t expect Romans to speak with English accents to sound “authentic”

Denzel speaking with a fake English accent detracts from the performance

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I think he is a great actor, and I did enjoy the first film...so I'll be watching it.

Since this is taking place in Anicent Rome, I didn't expect it to be with British accents....nor in Latin.

So I think I'll be ok.

The accents being English (and there are many) is historically valid for theatre about ancient Rome presented to an English speaking audience because those accents existed at that time in history.

A New York accent is a very recent thing and did not exist two thousand years ago.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Denzel Washington is a great actor

I got news for you. Gladiators in Ancient Rome did not have English accents.

They had accents from all over the known world.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I have never seen a Denzel Washington role I did not enjoy

Me neither until this one.

And no, I don’t expect Romans to speak with English accents to sound “authentic”

Well selecting New York is about as unauthentic as one can get.

Denzel speaking with a fake English accent detracts from the performance

Why? he's a fake roman wearing a fake costume about a fake story so why not a fake accent? This is what actors do, they fake it, they fake other people the accent is just a part of the persona and English and its many accents all existed two thousand years ago, New York accents did not, I bet you'd love it too if he pulled out a shotgun or chewed gum or wore a Yankees baseball cap.

Would none of that matter either?

How about a new spaghetti western with the guy speaking like a rapper?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

They had accents from all over the known world.

And accents from languages that didn't exist yet?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

Moron, they spoke Latin back then. The movie is in English for entertainment purposes. What accent should he have?