S&D: Benicio Del Toro's accents in films

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I've been wanting to this thread for a while, please indulge me.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

gmmethkyzyofknkoksucka

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

you forgot the "wotdafuckeh"

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what accents?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In the "Usual Suspects", he cracks me up.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm...confused.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The Benicio-Yiddish in Snatch is classic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, benicio is known for "winging" accents in the films he stars in, sometimes to the point of incomprehenisble mushmouth. this thread is my request for which ones are to seek more information or which ones not to.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

also, go back to scotland and bye.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'll flip him! i'll flip him, schlemiel!!"

i have this feeling that i need to see snatch, just to get a load of all those bad accents

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

do not tempt fate, young man.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

also i will be in berkeley this afternoon. probably downtown.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

fate is Scottish?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There are no bad accents in _Snatch_!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

also i will be in berkeley this afternoon. probably downtown.

what times??? contact me at once!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

at ONCE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe we can do a late lunch and I will bore you with work woes until you want to strangle me

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

As your attorney I'd advise you to...

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, what if he already wants to strangle you?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

let's face it, who doesn't?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Check your mail, I should be there around 3pm. Just need to run some errands in a bit before BARTing over to the BEAST.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

what nationality is b.d.t. anyway?

it's funny how an "ethnic" in hollywood that play various "ethnic" roles. esp. if you're from eastern europe. german? fine. serbian? ok. polish? why not.

that's a little less true now than it used to be, though.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

CAN play

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i went to college with him, he was a year or two older (i think). he's straight up american nationality-wise. ethnically, i'm not sure.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

he pulls off various latin american ethnicities with aplomb, then.

he rules.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked it when Marlon Brando played that Japanese guy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what about mickey rooney?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Sellers German is my favourite.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

no, peter sellers indian

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"birdie num-nums?"

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Born in Puerto Rico in 1967, a young Del Toro moved with his father to a farm in Pennsylvania after his mother died."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

okay i googled, he's PR-born but moved to PA when he was 13. he's 5 years older than me but he was 3 years ahead in school.

yes Benicio Del Toro. Accents. Yes.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna vote for Charlton Heston as a Mexican.
There were a lot of Anglos playing Native Americans back in the day. Salt in the wounds.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

all major native american parts would have been given to non-native americans until very very recently.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

birdie num nums!

(g! - I have blessed your inbox, if you are still at work)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

cf. cheyenne autumn (sal mineo!)

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought all Native American parts were played by Graham Greene.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

Richard Widmark .... Capt. Thomas Archer
Carroll Baker .... Deborah Wright
Karl Malden .... Capt. Wessels
Sal Mineo .... Red Shirt
Dolores del Rio .... Spanish Woman
Ricardo Montalban .... Little Wolf
Gilbert Roland .... Dull Knife
Arthur Kennedy .... Doc Holliday
Patrick Wayne .... 2nd Lt. Scott
Elizabeth Allen .... Miss Plantagenet
John Carradine .... Jeff Blair
Victor Jory .... Tall Tree
Mike Mazurki .... Sr. First Sergeant
George O'Brien .... Maj. Braden
Sean McClory .... Dr. O'Carberry
(more)

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricardo Montalban is some odd kind of genius.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, he was good in the Naked Gun as "mr. papsmear".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard that Brad "Stinky Arm" Pitt does an Irish Traveller accent in it. Forgive me for thinking that sounds a little out of his depth.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, he really ATTACKS that part.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ricardo Montalban -- Ode to an Iberian Pimp

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

b de t goes into my friend's record store fairly often. he really likes neil young and smoking weed and is always ready to bro down about classic rock records.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason the only store I can imagine Benecio del Toro in is "Rocks in Your Head" (haha "some reason" = i saw him one time on Prince Street).

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

bingo!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that's where I bought the Young Marble Giants import CD -- four months before it was eventually released domestically! I bet they knew it, too. They sure got me on that one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it was released domestically?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, jay, my friend and i were laughing about it the last time i stopped in. man, what a sucker!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I ready to bro down? What is "broing down"?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

you might "bro down" without even knowing it!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

don't expect to bro down on the first date

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

America is weirder than I thought it would be (wanted it to be?).

Bro you all very much.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, adam... imagine if i came over after work with a six-pack and we sat around drinking and discussing in minute detail the nuances of tsai ming liang's films, with lots of high-fives and back-slapping. we would totally be broing down.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

if we were discussing hou hsiao-hsien would we be hou'ing down?

― GALES OF LAUGHTER, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, yes...I think I did that once. Maybe I will bro with gygax later?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

bro down, my apologies.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is great

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

and then it ends

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Or just his look:

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-02/52163946.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 February 2010 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

he does seem like a bro. wolfbro?

― by another name (amateurist), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

eight years pass...

benicio: i'm gonna say this line like i'm a scary monster ok

director: maybe just try it normal?

benicio: pic.twitter.com/xTlHrzL3QK
— 🌋🏃‍♂️ (@bobby) January 6, 2019

― j., Friday, 25 January 2019 00:57 (seven years ago)

I watched License To Kill for the first time recently and my jaw dropped when Baby Benicio showed up on screen. And even then he was doing loopy line reads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rUWO1ZUQA

― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 25 January 2019 01:42 (seven years ago)

lol

― j., Friday, 25 January 2019 02:03 (seven years ago)

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