Kruger's accent

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playachica — 11 years ago(May 08, 2014 12:42 PM)

Hahahahahaaa I'm just seeing this! I love you!

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lylegentry — 11 years ago(October 26, 2014 07:44 AM)

I thought it was a New Zealand accent when I first heard it. He sounded like a Kiwi to me!

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julievanrijsewijk — 11 years ago(February 09, 2015 12:50 PM)

That's just a very tasteless joke, right?

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Royalcourtier — 9 years ago(May 11, 2016 10:13 PM)

American's don't speak proper English. And as for impenetrable accents, how is a non-American supposed to understand a New Yorker or a Hillbilly?

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Jimminy_Beeswax — 11 years ago(March 04, 2015 06:46 PM)

Offence taken! Seriously!?
You people sound like that and you want to be offended when others honestly point out how annoying you sound? Seriously?

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Xadermag — 12 years ago(December 26, 2013 11:20 PM)

Well, that explains why I kept catching Dutch sounds in it.
Haven't had much opportunity to hear S. Africans speak.

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mensch-2 — 11 years ago(December 27, 2014 10:26 AM)

It's only ONE of many SA accents, and an almost obsolete one at that. This is not is real accent, he has increased it to sound like Afrikaans-speaking traffic cops from the 1970s (a clich accent). This is only in the spectrum of accents of native Afrikaans-speaking whites (non-white Afrikaans speakers sound different). Seeing as SA has 11 official languages, you can imagine the range of accents.

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xxhaimbondxx — 12 years ago(December 28, 2013 06:04 AM)

It's much better in District 9, at least I could understand him there.

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Mormonz — 12 years ago(January 04, 2014 03:29 AM)

It was totally overdone. His accent in D9 was much more true

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Nostromo71 — 12 years ago(February 06, 2014 02:51 PM)

It was totally overdone. His accent in D9 was much more true
Totally agree. He exagerated his accent way too much, to the point that it actually sounded like he was trying to parody himself.

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jctennant55-892-30458 — 10 years ago(September 10, 2015 05:33 AM)

One can always make their accents to fit the role. His accent was exaggeration and over the top. Could be he was wanting to portray his character as totally scummy.

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just-mitch — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 02:47 AM)

It was an Australian accent for the film.
quite obviously not his real accent as you can hear his real accent in district 9 other films and real life.

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Guardia — 12 years ago(December 28, 2013 06:23 AM)

The accent has nothing to do with the film or even the character. It is a real world accent that millions of people already have.
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mw3051-1 — 12 years ago(January 05, 2014 12:56 PM)

no it is not.
have you never heard the actor speak in anything else ?
even South Africans will tell you this is crap.

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LeeVing88 — 12 years ago(January 08, 2014 11:14 AM)

He's still using a South African accent. Do you think an ACTOR can't disguise their voice without changing dialects?

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frozengreenz — 12 years ago(January 09, 2014 04:19 PM)

that bit at the end before he dies when he says "diplomatic immunity" sounded like pretty standard south african to me

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FrontPocket — 12 years ago(January 18, 2014 11:38 AM)

when he says "diplomatic immunity" sounded like pretty standard south african to me
He said "we die together, boykie", though.