Accents in American Movies

Bom dia, mjd. Como estas?

How's it going Clark. Hope the summer is treating you well.

"gandalf doesn't use an american accent. it sounds english to me. the same for saruman."

Most of them in that movie use British accents don't they?

Aragorn is the only one in the movies who does not have a British acent.

Samwise has an Irish accent, Frodo has a quasi-Enlish accent, Merry and Pippin have Scottish accents, and the rest have English accents.

Karl Urban, who playes Eomor, is a New Zealander, but has an English accent. And Elrond, played by Hugo Weaving, is Australian, and he has an English accent.

I am doing well, mjd. And you?

What kind of accent has Stu from Phone Booth?

American.

I thought it was one of the NY accents (Bronx?).
But maybe, that's because I'm not used to the rate of speech. Possibly if he slowed down it would be just a general American to me.

I did not see the movie, but I saw parts of him speaking, and he was using what appeared to be the standard American accent.

Re: the Nanny -- her accent is overexagerrated Jewish yenta from Queens (NY), with the obligatory Yiddish words and phrases thrown in. Mr. Sheffield's sounds RP to me.

Re: the request from the pronunciation teacher from India -- what American movies are you referring to?

Fisher,

Stu from "Phone Booth" has an American accent from NYC (he says he's from the Bronx in the movie). What is interesting is that Colin Farell is Irish, so he's imitating the accent....pretty well I might add.

Does Jack Nicholson has an accent ? if yes, from which part of the US ?

Jack Nicholson is from my home state of New Jersey. He kind of has his own unique voice though.

mjd
He has a nice voice. Great actor !

Jack Nicholson may have come from New Jersey, but after several decades living in Beverly Hills, his accent and speech pattern is more of a laid-back Angeleno.

You're probably right, Julian.