Broderick's English/American Accent is worse than the music
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harry-potter-3 — 16 years ago(May 06, 2009 05:48 AM)
I thought he was fine.
Cheesy acting but, that's typical from MB - it's HIS thing.
And, i think the acting in general was quite cheesy and a bit hammy. overall.
However, good or bad, this was quite common for this kind of film, in the 80's.
The only thing I would have wished for is, the director to be strict with MB about keeping one accent or the other - preferably the fake English accent.
Instead, he keeps forgetting and slips back into New Yorkian!
Michelle Pfeiffer - beautiful, in this film
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emp1966 — 15 years ago(March 16, 2011 05:52 PM)
The film DOES take place in France, the names Etian and Isabeau are obviously French. Matt was NOT trying to speak with an accent, he just used his own natural speech as did, McKern, Hauer and Pfeiffer. Why does everyone believe that just because a film takes place hundreds of years ago in a foreign country, that actors not from said country are using the appropriate country's accent. In some films yes they do, but not ALL films, and in Ladyhawke they don't.
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kraisins-1 — 15 years ago(January 11, 2011 12:40 PM)
It does make Dick Van Dyke's in Mary Poppins sound good.
But I thought he was effective in the roll. I never quite got why people felt he was miscast. I think the character himself was miscast in a way. Here is a run of the mill cutpurse who suddenly is in the middle of a magical situation. He's a fish out of water and I think MB did it very well. -
Seymour-Pats — 14 years ago(April 13, 2011 10:56 PM)
I thought he was great! He wasn't trying to do an accent. That's the way he actually talks. Watch him in Ferris Bueller - he sounds the same. He has a fairly formal US accent, like a US person who went to prep school, but it's not an uncommon type of accent at all (especially in the northeast).
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SpiltPersonality — 11 years ago(January 17, 2015 04:42 PM)
I don't really understand these kinds of objections. Granted an English accent is the Lingua Franca of period settings, but modern English would be just as out of date as any other modern language. Just take it as it is and run with it.
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guruatomik — 10 years ago(June 11, 2015 09:29 AM)
I think it might just have been the way the character was written/directed. Broderick was JarJar Binksing his way through the first half of the movie and it was unpleasant to watch.
At least there was some character growth around the second act that made him less reprehensible.