Clip from "The Local Stigmatic"

[neotokyomedia]

mm his pom accent isnt that good

[EchetusXe]

I love that scene

[GosfordAbercrombie]

ahahaahahaha the accent is like slightly autistic!!!!

[myryckyz]

Pacino grew up in the Bronx near spanish comunity that's why he speaks some spanish. Brian De Palma wanted him for his rol in Scarface because he knew that, and because Pacino is Pacino y'know.

[JustNaz333]

Wow, I never thought I'd hear Al Pacino speak British. And he was actually good!

I have to listen to the clip again, 'cus it's funny AND so out of Al Pacino's normal character choice.

[MrAleppo123]

lol he has a surprising cockney going on there

as for people who say it is not good. i don't get that/ ask a real cockney, i lived in london and that is

a triumph

[MisterGage77]

with a british accent Pacino reminds me of Paul McCartney,lol

[DSaint3018]

I like this film and I love Pacino in general, but for me (probably just my own personal frame of reference problem) I can't get into him doing the Cockney English accent. With him I just always think of American (specifically Italian-American ,, or Hispanic). But his range is outstanding.

[simonzon]

Fair enough, but he does it to better effect in Scarecrow, which is well worth watching as a gauge of Al Pacino's versatility. there is a part towards the end where his character veers into different accents and personalities, including cockney. i don't know if you've seen that one?

[BunchofMovieVideos]

It's not a great English accent - but he almost got it. I'd say it's like 95% there, but he's too American to pull it off.

Really want to watch this film!

[col06]

our accent is so varied thought probably very difficult to pull off

[themillenia]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when he was doing Richard III. I didn't think he could pull it off. I mean, his accent isn't dead on good. But for Al, I think its a big step because in his younger days, I never would have imagined him playing a role with that type of accent. I didn't think he could pull it off. Maybe the cuban, but not the British

[SgtTravisBickle]

I saw this movie at one of Al's private screenings for Charlie Laughton's class.

[Dauerficka]

where to get the whole movie ???

[TimsVideos17]

That accent is brutal.

[Alquit4]

I'm from South London so take it from me. Great actor normally but his accent is laughable here. He would have done well in Spinal Tap as he sounds like Nigel Tufnel here and what's with all the facial actions? Over acting or what?

Someone else said Harry H. Corbett was his vocal coach!!

Ha ha ha! Spot on!

[sly717]

i agree mate (lol...mate) american actors always fuck up the english accent and the british ones always play it great take kate winslet, anthony hopkins, christian bale, jude law, liam neeson, clive owen, for example the only actress who played that accent really well was renee as bridget jones...pacino, de niro, nicholson, hoffman all of them are great but they can't play foreign characters always gringos

[Bodisamba]

his spanish in "scarface" was not good, just acceptable (I´m from Spain) but it sounds more like if he was the son of spanish parents. Anyway, why is this important, it´s great anyway and fun and a great actor.

[idiotsnake]

it was a cuban accent and there is a difference

[countbloodula]

feb72009

[cakeit2]

Take it from a cockney who wants this to be good. It's not! In fact it's precisely what every cockney jokes about when people attempt to do their accents.

[Y2JROCKFAN]

Western English accent i believe.

I can tell that it is a good English accent.

[HiredGunz]

no and no

[Y2JROCKFAN]

um no to u.

south-west of London.

[Alfolioli]

For a start Al is attempting an estuary (South Eastern) accent and secondly no, it is not a good English accent.

[Y2JROCKFAN]

It is a good accent, but he kept messing it up

First

"And the barmen"

Second time he said

"And the barman"

His attempts at re saying it messed up, some of them were good though.

[MrAleppo123]

it's not an estuary at all it's a cockney come shephard's bush accent

i lived in london and it is spot on

[cakeit2]

I love Al Pacino and he is my favourite actor of all time. But I'm a cockney and this accent is terrible. To be fair it's very hard to do because it's a very inconsistent accent, and not many actors get it right.

[cakeit2]

I love Al Pacino and he is my favourite actor of all time. But I'm a cockney and this accent is terrible. To be fair it's very hard to do because it's a very inconsistent accent, and not many actors get it right.

[padraic2001eire]

To call this a terrible London accent I feel is a little harsh; I mean, it's no Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. I think Pacino's nicotine-coated voice is so ingrained on the public consciousness from films like The Godfather Part III, Scent of a Woman and Heat that to hear him pronounce his words in a different accent just seems unnatural. Not a great accent perhaps, but a fair one (and no, I'm not American).

[glitterbangles]

Love Al Pacino- but as a Londoner it really is a horrendous accent. Still, he gave it a go lol

[CatherineAdams9221]

Paul Guilfoyle:-D really good haircut:-DD, he looks amazing, i adore him!:-)

[Tremontilover]

Look at 0.41! He's John Milton there! XD

[ppat206]

John Milton doesn't exist. It's only Al. And always Al. L.O.L

[Tremontilover]

I know he doesn't now, but he did exist!! And it was just a fun way to underline how devilish he seemed. :)

[ppat206]

Milton is just fiction. But you're right.He seem devilish. And reminds me when he laughs in Devil's Advocate too. I understand what you wanted to say. But I wanted to discuss.

Bye

[BigChiefMullet]

Sounded like a decent attempt at a Cockney accent just its Al Pacino so it doesnt quite seem right.

Interesting though.

[hollymarg]

Words which don't sound British/Cockney:

Stupid

Side

Barman (second time he says it)

I am sure that a native like dazw01842 is right, bad accent but great actor. Oh Yeah, Paul Guilfoyle...always great.

[huthut91]

accent SOUNDED great....the way his face moved as the words came out was not believable though. Maybe thats just because its difficult to accept a cockney accent from Pacino?

[dazw01842]

I'm a londoner, his accent was terrible. The man is still brilliant though and I'd love to see this.

[ppat206]

I think he have problems with accents. Also he have problems speak another language. For example, he sound terrible speaking spanish in Devil's advocate but everyone think he was great because they don't speak spanish neigther..so it's all right.

Anyway I'm not londoner and I like very much listen him speaking in that tone, whatever that is.

He is great.

[h0b0ch1c]

I agree about Devil's, his spanish in Carlito's Way wasn't that great either. It's strange cause his spanish in Scarface is perfect. Then again, maybe the character of Carlito wasn't supposed to speak it fluidly cause he was born and raised in NY. Awesome actor either way. I've waited over ten years to see the local stigmatic and chinese coffee. Can't wait to see them.

[Alfolioli]

He didn't speak Spanish in Devil's Advocate... I think you mean Scarface in which he played a Cuban.

[toroga1]

He spoke spanish (or whatever language it was) in Devil's Advocate when he was on the subway talking to those gangsters who were going to rob him.

[DanielTheWalrus]

Once again, people with no knowledge picking up on american actors doing british accent...his accent was greast. Period.

[HiredGunz]

what are you on about you div...english ppl know how a cockney accent sounds you plum

[DanielTheWalrus]

Man, i can even understand what are you talkin' about, that's how much you know about "british language"...You can't even speak properly.

[HiredGunz]

because you're thick

[DanielTheWalrus]

Who you're calling thick, you fucking mick?

[ginganz13]

Brilliant actor - terrible accent

[MILLIEC16]

Paul Guilfoyle looks very good in dis video.

[CR65]

I'm looking forward to purchasing this independent and highly private film that Al Pacino made and financed. It will be released as part of a box set that will also include "Looking For Richard" and "Chinese Coffee", an Off-Broadway play that Pacino produced and starred in alongside Jerry Orbach.

[stoatworld]

Sounds like they employed Harry H. Corbett as a vocal coach on this (Aw my gaawd, you diwty old man.) The accent is up there with Bill Hick's Beatles accent.

[jijileila]

Ahmm... so it is a good accent or not? One Brasilian at the top is claiming that it's great but i dont think to believe a brasilian ;)