From "The Road to Wellville":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VqdZfUp3hE

If I were you I'd ignore the crappy video quality and the poor timing of the subtitles. Just listen to Broderick's voice as he goes from a terrible uppercrust accent to his regular voice.

It's the Dick Van Dyke Effect.

Cameron Diaz essentially gives up her strangled attempt at a Southern accent about 15 minutes into The Box (and good riddance).

I think it's all explained in the summary for the video. Also what do you mean about his accent being slightly fake? That accent sounds like something you'd hear in a Middle School Drama Club production not a feature film.

No I can definately hear a change...listen to the 2nd line again: it starts off with the same accent but then around the time he says "toast" he starts to sound like himself again.

Also in this scene he doesn't have the accent at all which leads me to believe he only used that accent for one line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jnIJAJujo

Jude Law does an excellent American accent in The Talented Mr. Ripley, but there`s a scene where his character shouts "Leave it!" and loses the accent. Is it hard for actors to hold on to accents while shouting?

I think Christian Bale is pretty good with American accents. He has a big shouting scene in American Psycho and never loses it, though there is a moment where there seems to be a hint of struggle to maintain it. Though he does lose some points for having a bad growling Batman voice. I almost think they should of dubbed in Kevin Conroy lol

Not really. I mean it states that it's going to be the "worst of Matthew Broderick" but all I say is a really low-quality 12 second clip which needs subtitles to point out when he fucks up. It just makes whoever posted it come off as extremely anal-retentive, and weird.




To be absolutely honest? I've never seen the Road to Wellville, so maybe he's just firing up the goofiest upper-class accent possible(which in another post you say he might not have been doing) so all I have is the aformentioned "really low-quality 12 second clip which needs subtitles to point out when he fucks up."

Now that you mention it, the pythons DID have a lot of problems talking with American accents in Meaning of Life. The boardroom scene was almost painful to a point. It may be for comedic effect but i never have heard any of them be able to speak like an American. Terry Gilliam should of voice coached them.

Here's the whole scene, painful accents and all, for your viewing pleasure:



What's amazing about the scene is that Terry Jones, the Python who can usually adapt the best to accents, still sounds really British with his two lines (and I doubt that was intentional), whereas Eric Idle, who has probably the thickest accent out of all the Pythons (seriously, I've never heard him without it; it's like his own personal albatross), has the least difficulties in sounding like an American... although, it's still pretty bad when everyone else in the scene sounds like they're talking out of their noses.