'You're gonna follow me in the city of Boston. Welcome to hell."
By adamg - 10/15/09 - 10:34 am
Trailer for Mel Gibson's "Edge of Darkness," which features follows a man as he drives home to Roslindale in a typical afternoon commute through the O'Neill Tunnel (via Sam Baltrusis):
Comments
Oof, the accent!
By MC Slim JB - 10/15/09 - 12:18 pm
That sometimes-on, sometimes-off, never-quite-right Boston accent of Mel's is going to get a lot of local ridicule. Why do they bother? Who would care if everyone in the cast spoke in a flat Midwestern American accent? It's really hard to do a working-class Boston accent right, and almost no actor who wasn't raised here ever does a good job of it.
the accent
By The Lion (not verified) - 10/15/09 - 12:41 pm
That's the thing that people don't seem to get; the Boston accent is usually a blue collar working class thing.
People like Laurence Fishburn in Mystic River and Vera Farmiga in The Departed wouldn't talk like construction workers from Charlestown.
Accents are, uh, grave.
By jchristian - 10/15/09 - 12:56 pm
Why are actors/speech coaches/directors/whoever unable to get it right, and why don't they have an impaahhtial observer tell them when it would just be better to do without any attempt at it?
What is the major malfunction?!
We should also point out
By jchristian - 10/15/09 - 12:59 pm
that it's not just Mel. Numerous people in that trailer sound bizarre.
(Didn't see MC Slim's comment before I posted, but obviously others will agree!)
Agree
By karenz - 10/16/09 - 5:19 am
It was very distracting!
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January 29
By Matt (not verified) - 10/15/09 - 1:01 pm
This flick must be a real stinker if they are releasing it in January/early February, which is typically the graveyard for new movies.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy....
One, this looks
By anon (not verified) - 10/15/09 - 1:01 pm
One, this looks horrible.
Two, sounds even worse. Since when is the Boston accent a mutilated version of Jersey talk?
Do I have to do everything around here?
By Will LaTulippe - 10/15/09 - 1:06 pm
Why am I not surprised that he drove to Roslindale and not to Brookline?
We leave them for you, Will.
By Jiffywoob - 10/15/09 - 4:28 pm
nt
Click on "Roslindale" in the original post
By adamg - 10/15/09 - 11:56 pm
You may recall how he had to change the way some scene was filmed a bit because a Jewish resident of the street refused to let him use her house for night lighting.
too bad he's an anti-semite
By rageagainst - 10/15/09 - 1:11 pm
and i won't be seeing your movie. you're not welcome her mel
Yeah Mel, we only welcome
By dotave1630 - 10/15/09 - 1:21 pm
Yeah Mel, we only welcome the leftist liberals here. When is Michael Moore coming??
Thankfully Mel's got his own production company so he's not as deeply effected (black-listed) by the loons of Hollywood. Keep 'em coming Mel
I didn't know only "leftist
By anon (not verified) - 10/15/09 - 11:49 pm
I didn't know only "leftist liberals" do not like anti-Semites. But I'll take your word for it.
Would appreciate an introduction to a rightist liberal, or a leftist conservative, though.
Ray Winstone is in this
By Anonymous - 10/15/09 - 10:56 pm
Ray Winstone is in this. He's really good. You probably remember him from The Departed. Mel? He's ok. He knows how to turn on the action, blood and passion.