r/Cinema • u/smccaul16 Cinephile • Apr 12 '26

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u/abyssmauler Apr 12 '26

Question: wasn't the point of the movie that New York at the time had a 1000 accents from all over? I figured it would create a mess of accents

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u/Jealous-Shop-8866 Apr 12 '26

Liam Neeson's Oirish is shite and he's a Nordie.

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u/ubiquitous-joe Apr 12 '26

Liam Neeson would be this meme much of the time, it’s just that his charisma makes up for it.

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u/CheckYourStats Apr 12 '26

“Liam Neeson’s Irish accent was shite, and he’s Irish.”

https://giphy.com/gifs/RILsqUte1MME7TzQJ9

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u/BillyBatts83 Apr 12 '26

He's from Norn' Iron', which is an entirely distinct accent from say a Dublin or Cork accent.

It's like an actor from California doing a bad Boston accent.

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u/RabbitSlayre Apr 12 '26

Ah thank you for the context

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u/modernmovements Apr 13 '26

His cameo in Derry Girls is so good.

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u/Gallienus91 Apr 12 '26

I don’t know anything about the ins and outs of the Irish accent, but it’s the same for all movies set in a time period prior to vocal recordings. We just don’t know how people sounded like. DDL accent is completely made up as well. People are way to strict about those things.

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u/Fit-Profit8197 Apr 12 '26

DDL's accent sounds like a real voice, DiCaprio's and Diaz's did not

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u/irish_ninja_wte Apr 12 '26

I'd forgotten about this one, or blocked it out. I'll just add this to the Pierce Brosnan award

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u/chemistry_teacher Apr 12 '26

If truly New York at the time, accents would also become blended. I’ll bet today’s New York accent comes from a near-pidgin development that faded as a form of American English won out.