We shouldn't be too harsh on Elextra, Renard, and Zukovsky's accents all wavering slightly in TWINE, but what are your favourite "bad accents" in the Bond movies.
The worst for me has to be the late Ken Sharrock, a Liverpool actor, who plays the Jailer in Afghanistan in The Living Daylights. He lapses so often into his normal Liverpudlian/Scouse accent, it is funny. "I did not tell you to get up"!!! LOL.
What is your favourite "bad accent" in a Bond film??????
Worst fake accent in a Bond movie
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, Aug 24 2006 02:30 AM
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 02:30 AM
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 04:59 PM
Natalya Fridronova Simonova 
Noe that accent is fake 
Noe that accent is fake
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 07:21 PM
Rick Yune/Zao. Did he even put on an accent?
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 07:32 PM
Rick Yune/Zao. Did he even put on an accent?
I don't think was supposed to have an accent other than trying to sound like a badass villain. The worst accent goes to Brosnan trying to sound russian in TWINE.
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 08:04 PM
The French guy in the Eiffel Tower scene in AVTAK always strikes me as someone who is trying too hard to sound French.
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 08:13 PM
Gert Frobe didn't sound anything like Gert Frobe!
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Posted 24 August 2006 - 10:55 PM
The French guy in the Eiffel Tower scene in AVTAK always strikes me as someone who is trying too hard to sound French.
Yes, good one!! I always laugh when I hear Bond say the words "Monsieur Aubergine"!!! These days it sounds like a name from an Austin Powers movie!
Another bad accent - Dr Arkov (the real one) in TWINE sounds Scottish when he does his Russian accent (the actor is actually English), and also the Severnya technician's accent is poor (another English actor trying to do a Russian accent).
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 08:51 AM
Alan Cumming as Boris, only I say that half-heartedly. His character was "appropriate"... in an odd sort of way (stress the quotes).
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 09:09 AM
Pierce Brosnans pathetic attempt to speak German in TND. Isn't Bond supposed to be fluent in many languages.
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 09:59 AM
was the doctor in Licence to kill you know the one in the charity
is he really as American as he sounds sounds fake to me
"God bless your heart"
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is he really as American as he sounds sounds fake to me
"God bless your heart"
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 11:42 AM
Dude, that was Wayne Newton, Las Vegas lounge icon!
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 04:33 PM
Agreed that Natalya in GOLDENEYE is a pretty bad attempt at Russian/Georgian ("vyyyverry goood Mister Bond")!! Also, Madonna's struggle to decide whether she is English or American is usually quite poor. We should be happy that her cameo role in DIE ANOTHER DAY was brief enough that we didn't have to endure any more of her mid-Atlantic accent.
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 04:48 PM
I would have preferes Madonna not to make a Cameo at all
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 04:57 PM
I agree, Gert didn't sound at all like Gert in Goldfinger.
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 05:24 PM
Sean Connery speaking english
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Posted 25 August 2006 - 05:32 PM
Sean Connery speaking english
ROFLMAO!!!
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Posted 26 August 2006 - 09:46 AM
Xenia and Karas accent ws pretty good
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 11:48 PM
Pierce trying to talk like Sean in goldeneye 
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 12:04 AM
Sean Connery speaking english
Good one!I am Russian, so I make fun of anyone who tries to imitate Russian accent in movies, especially when they can't quite get it, even Barbara Bach as Anya.
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 12:35 AM
The big Russian woman in TLD is quite over-the-top too, with her accent "will light up like Christmas tree!".
She is a British actress, Julie Wallace, and she was in "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" on British TV in the 80's.
She is a British actress, Julie Wallace, and she was in "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" on British TV in the 80's.
Edited by DaveBond21, 29 August 2006 - 12:43 AM.
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Posted 29 August 2006 - 05:14 AM
Sean Connery speaking english
I am Russian, so I make fun of anyone who tries to imitate Russian accent in movies, especially when they can't quite get it, even Barbara Bach as Anya.
How about Sean Connery trying to attempt English with a Dutch accent to Peter Franks in DAF? Is there anything about it that makes it any more distinctive than your average Continental Europe accent, even if it is spoken in English?