Dicaprio's acting - please help
My girlfriend seems to think DiCaprio is a bad actor in everything he does and will ruin Tarantino's new movie...
Can someone please set her straight?
His portrayl of Danny was great. He seems to be improving with age.
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His accent was horrible.
Get busy livin..... or die tryin - Morgan Freeman, "The Shawshank Redemption"
Maybe you wanted him to sound Australian. The accent was spot on -- and I (NYC boy, allegedly with no discernible accent of my own) have spent a lot of time in South Africa and with South (and other) Africans. Good flick too, while I'm chiming in.
shareI'm South African and I can tell you his accent was nothing special.It wasn't overtly bad but it was like a "tourist" accent.Like someone who has lived there for a while and picked up some aspects of the accent.His overall performance was good too nothing mind blowingly great.But that latter statement is just opinion :)
shareAccent was spot-on.
Same disparaging remark was made by critics when Johnny Depp had an accent in Finding Neverland. Critics chewed his "English" accent up ... it was Scottish and he was spot on, as well. A lot of people don't know what they're listening to or for when actors play roles with foreign accents, evidently.
Accent was not spot on, and you are wrong. You heard it yourself from a South African above in the thread. I have also known South Africans.
The most amusing is people trying to give the history of what Rhodesians are and are actually convincing themselves that Leo (according to the story) left modern-day Zimbabwe at an early age and deliberately acted with that modified accent of an early Rhodesian mixed with a modern day South African lol. It's amazing what people will come up with.
And to the NYC kid, I grew up in NYC. Actual NYC, not Long Island. You must be tone deaf to have made the comments that you did.