o'russell's ABSCAM movie AMERICAN HUSTLE

the accent "reveal" was soooo so crazy. i haven't read any reviews of this besides what people are saying on this thread but i can't be the only one that thought wait, she was doing a british accent this whole time?

i mean amy adams is the best thing about this movie by far but it's simply incredible to me that in that no one stepped in and said, uh she sounds exactly the same before and after she "stops" doing her "accent" guys

this has probably been said a lot, okay fine

still

There are parts where the accent goes in and out, mostly when she doesn't actually need to fool anyone (i.e., in scenes with Bale), but to me, it did sound distinct from her normal speaking voice.

i just didnt get the point of her continuing it once she had a personal relationship w/ bradley cooper -- like, he busted them for being con artists, did the fbi not figure out her real identity at that point??

no they had to move on to the next scene pretty quickly at that point iirc

xpost Really, you didn't notice she was doing an accent most of the time? To go with her fake identity as, you know, British? Which was part of the plot?

didn't use it in Bale scenes (after confessing), did use it on everyone else. i didnt pay much attention to its quality, busy being annoyed by so much else.

It was plain as day that her character was unsuccessfully affecting an accent. Which most of the other characters were too dim to realize.

didn't seem so much an english accent as a julie christie impersonation, seemed the one front where adams was being as goofy/'fun' as her costars, elsewhere her serious actress mode in contrast to goofball hams around her reminded me of demi moore in striptease. i guess she didn't get her girls as far out.

like, he busted them for being con artists, did the fbi not figure out her real identity at that point?

^fuckin this

Coop too busy figuring out ways to outfox Louis CK to check her background

people want to believe, guys

i think i am guilty of the middlebrow response to this movie outlined by ryan above

why was alessandro nivola doing walken, though? what happened, i am confused.

why not tho!

i don't know why it bothered me so much tbh. it was distracting!

amy adams is a gem. i saw this and her in short succession and she is a delight in both.

my sister has made a science oven joke to me once daily since i saw this movie

i am still kind of broken up about jeremy renner's character, also.

science oven very high quality gag

i found it very moving when renner was trying to figure out if Arabs are black so as to get the sheikh on board with revitalizing Camden.

so earnest!

the clips make this film look sort of charming and likeable. Maybe I'll see it after all.

I can't really not see a movie in which characters apparently fall in love over duke ellington

Really, you didn't notice she was doing an accent most of the time? To go with her fake identity as, you know, British? Which was part of the plot?

i noticed an occasional light dusting of britishness that alighted on what she said, as if she had emigrated as a teenager, but it was barely noticeable and mainly came across to me as one of those "mid-atlantic" accents that american movie stars affected until the 1960s, certainly nothing worthy of provoking the WTF?? moment that the movie apparently thinks it has set up

i've suddenly realized that i might be less sensitive to british accents since i've lived here for 8 years... :o

Its kinda that her accent is rubbish, but tbh i assumed it would fool yanks alright so it worked in the movie.

I never thought her accent reveal was supposed to be some big moment, because we, the viewer, knew she had been affecting an accent if we had been paying the minimum bit of attention. Like when she switches her accent to British in the flashback (she starts the movie acting "British") and says she created a British character because patsies were more likely to believe some pseudo-royal had access to money. Because LOL pre-internet, etc. She's not scamming Bale, who obviously knew the British accent was affected because it was part of their scam; she does not have the accent when they meet Ellington-cute. I'm kind of baffled by some of you folks, because the movie makes this all explicit. Like, it comes right out and literally says it, in voiceover, iirc. Of all the things people could complain about ... this is like complaining that Bale's hair looked fake. Well, yeah.

like, he busted them for being con artists, did the fbi not figure out her real identity at that point?

I really don't want to be Captain Defendthisfilm, but of all the things it got wrong or not all right, this kind of "sloppiness" is not something I got from it. Like, as soon as she reveals her American-ness to Coop, she says how she forged her past identity, down to passport and bio and everything. It clearly wasn't that hard to fool Cooper, because nowhere is it even implied he's a good FBI agent. That's the point. He's an aspirational live at home loser who has been going semi-rogue in an effort to get ahead. Louis CK is the professional one who keeps telling him to slow down. When they encounter DeNiro, an actual smart/dangerous person, even Bale says they're all out of their league, because he is smart. The con artists prey on the weak and stupid. Cooper's character is both.

Bit of a snooze, this. It reminded me slightly of The Master with the long improv-y scenes where its just the actors bouncing off one another, and in no great hurry to move the story along. That and the fact that Amy Adams was the best thing about it.

Thanks for that Josh. I agree none of that was hidden from the audience... was having trouble with a lot of the criticisms in here.

Though I do agree the bathroom stall scream was silly.

Has no one else screamed while perched on the loo?

It's my modus operandi

It's my modus pooperandi.

seriously, i was the only one who had forgotten she was supposed to have a british accent?? ah i guess maybe i'm just that far gone

i figured she was screaming in the toilet because coke

i figured it was one a those serrated turds

i thought maybe coop had curled all his pubes the wrong way up and it was giving her a wrongun

She really likes how "Don't Leave Me This Way" explodes into its chorus.

She's mad the song is climaxing while she's on the toilet.

This could be the "What did Bill Murray whisper in her ear?" scene of the year.

She's mad the song she is climaxing while she's on the toilet.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:58 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fixed

she was climaxing on the toilet

fu

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Delayed reaction.

we go from cooper being almost the main character to being a glowering silent loser in the background in a split second.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, January 5, 2014 8:52 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is super otm

i could not figure what this movie's opinion was of his character... when he gets his big comeuppance i was like... oh... he was the... bad guy??

Of course he is! Look at his hair.

i have curly hair alfred

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