Kruger's accent

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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.

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mycelo-338-14473 — 12 years ago(February 10, 2014 02:46 AM)

Are you sure you're talking about this movie? Because, you see, I think the movie where a south african villain who utters "diplomatic immunity" just after dying is called Lethal Weapon 2!!!
Seriously, what the hell?

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bocomoj — 11 years ago(May 11, 2014 06:09 AM)

frozen was telling a joke. It's sad that needs to be explained. The Int0rwebs is populated with dim bulbs.

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bennyshambles78 — 11 years ago(June 20, 2014 09:13 AM)

Um, District 9? Sharlto Copely is South African/Afrikaaner so he's going to speak in an Afrikaans accent and use Afrikaans slang. Hell, he even sings an Afrikaans lullaby to the little girl with leukemia. He might be exaggerating some qualities of it considering he's playing a villain, but it's pretty much just how he speaks. I didn't think that Elysium was very good, but he was definitely the best part of the entire film accent included.

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Stirchley — 10 years ago(January 04, 2016 02:18 PM)

I wonder why you assume Copley is Afrikaans? Copley sounds like a British surname to me and there's no reason to assume that all white South Africans are Afrikaaners.

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francojules — 12 years ago(January 19, 2014 03:28 PM)

Of course it has to do with the film - it is IN the film.

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Guardia — 12 years ago(January 20, 2014 12:08 AM)

What would change if his accent were different?
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