For a long time, I thought Harrison Ford’s Russian accent in K-19: The Widowmaker was pretty decent, so nobody’s perfect. Wouldn’t it be better to make cherry-flavored confectionery taste like real cherries? By the same logic, wouldn’t it make more sense to model your Irish accent on an actual Irish person-Brendan Gleeson or Gabriel Byrne, perhaps-rather than, say, Richard Gere as tortured IRA sniper Declan Joseph Mulqueen? If you’re reading this and thinking to yourself, Those three people sound exactly the same, well, that’s okay. They resemble the real thing just enough to be recognizable, but after you eat a couple of real cherries, you start to wonder how on Earth the ersatz version has managed to corner the market. ![]() I believe this puts me in a minority position among my people, who tend to greet the first notes of these leprechaun lilts with, at best, a full-body cringe and, at worst, a spasm of murderous rage.īut for me, bad Irish accents are like cherry-flavored candy. Hand to God, few things bring me as much bemused joy as hearing a recognizable actor-whether they be distinguished Hollywood royalty or a newly hatched WB actor/model-butcher my native brogue. As an Irishman, when I profess a love for terrible Irish accents in film and on TV, I swear I’m being neither snarky nor disingenuous.
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