HUGO WEAVING
HUGO WEAVING
Yet another Australian actor that can fool everyone into thinking he’s American.
(Hugo Weaving)
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Huh. I always thought he was British.
He was born in Nigeria, of all places!
He doesn’t LOOK American – like Pootah said, British.
He was actually born in Nigeria 4 April 1960, lived in England and moved in Australia in 1976. WOW
No, he is Half-Elven.
he’s obviously a computer program.
Quite talented even in a dress!
Yep, but then again, he’s a program. waddya expect, Elrond?
Yet another caption that fails to produce even the slightest of laughs.
exactly
If I read your comment with a Commandor Norrington-voice, I’d laugh! xD That’s how toneless it is! Let’s see you make a caption that will make the entire planet die from laughing their arses off!
Why? The only way to get a caption front paged here is to mentioned sparkly vampires, that skinny girls are evil or the latest teenage sensation has no talent. None of them are really funny, but they constantly get fronted.
So why post and complain? You could save yourself the dissapointment by not visiting the website anymore.
Did you miss the irony?
Yes, yes I did. Explain it to me. If you can.
I don’t see either sparkly vampires, skinny, evil girls, or a latest-teenage-sensation-who-has-no-talent on this caption!
However, I do agree with you that most captions on this lol-page have lost their glow from all the mentioned cliches. Roflrazzi.com should really front something new!
I know. These motivation-style posts have never been funny and they’re getting less funny by the second. Stop the inanity!!
a quite sexy one too for that matter.
ok. only in the v-for-vendetta-mask.
but still.
He’s a real good actor and all, but I can name british actors that are as good as him fooling people into thinking they’re American. This caption is not funny and it doesn’t prove anything we don’t already know.
mmmm c*ck in a frock on a rock.
It’s not that hard to imitate an accent. I imagine all actors add accents to their repertoire as they go along.
yeah look at sean connery… lol, sorry. he obviously has some trouble with accents is all i’m saying.
Actually he doesn’t have any problems with accents. He just doesn’t do accents point blank. (Except I believe that he “attempted” an Irish accent for the copper in “The Untouchables”, and in one of his early films (for the life of me I can’t remember the name of the dammned film ), he had another “Irish” accent, but in all his other films he had his usual Scottish accent which ws a bit odd especially in Red October where he played a Russian Sub Captain (from Edinburgh which is a small village just outside Leningrad)
Marko Ramius is Lithuanian, not Russian. That accounts nicely for him having a different accent to the Russians who made up the majority of the Red October’s crew (well at least IMO).
I believe you’re thinking of Darby O Gill and the little people. I’d erase it from my memory too if I could
Well yes. But never the less he was in the Red Fleet, therefore he is a Russian Submarine Captain, but the problem is I know several Lithuanians (one of whom worked in a Russian Nuclear Power Station), and yes they may have different accents to Russians (and I also know several Russians), but there is no way that they sound something like an Edinburgh Milkman (and former nude model
OH!! And thanks to Cleefa. I thought it began with D, but kept thinking of Donovan’s Reef for some strange reason.
I wasn’t suggesting that Lithuanians have Embra accents, but since Russians don’t by and large have American accents IME…
Tom cruises accent in that german movie was great
The aliens taught him.
ANYVUN CAN DO A MOCK GERMAN ACCENT!! YOU JUST HAV TO REMEMBER TO SHOUT AND MISPRONOUNCE ZE LETTER V AND SOME VURDS. ZIS PRODUCES THE REQUIRED ACCENT AND ALSO ADD IN SOME PROPER GERMAN WORDS. DAS IST GUD. NEIN!!
It helps to occasionally re-arrange a sentence fron the usual English word order, say “It was hot here too” becoming “It was here hot too”.
Also at ze end of ze sentence all the verbs must go.
Not hard for Aussies to imitate the various American accents, but practically impossible for an American to imitate an Oztrayan one, it seems!
Renee Zelwegger and Gwyneth Paltrow have done faultless British accents. Toni Collette (Australian) has done both Amerian and British accents superbly. Johnny Depp does a pretty fair British accent but I can’t think of a single Brit or American who can do Strine. Apart from the Python team in the University of Woolloomooloo sketch…
That true, Zeli. I’ve been here for 5 years and still can’t do a decent Aussie accent.
Blimey mate!! That’s pretty crock. I can do a ripper Ozzy accent. I’ll jump in my ute and throw another shrimp on the barbie and open a tinny
(Just another reason why no one can really understand what the hell I’m saying!! Like I’ve said I’m part English, Part Australian, Part Canadian and Part South African. My parents were in the Airforce so I went all over the shop, and thus don’t really have a specific accent and could conceivably do an Australian or a South African Accent, I can’t quite get to grips though with the Canadian accent eh?)
Actually it’s easy for Australians to copy accent because we have much more rekaxed tongues. We can move our tongues around to imatate different accents. If you’re ever watching tv and see someone pretending to be Australian and then compare that to a real australian accent. But then you compare someone like Hugh Jackman pretending to be American then comparing it to a real american accent, you’ll see we can imitate accents better. Not offence
“All over the shop” ^_^ I love our slang!
We probably find accents easy to imitate due to the massive amounts of American and British television we are exposed to in Australia.
Anyone who wants to make it in Film and TV in the States who isn’t from there has to.
Allegedly, Americans can’t understand anything that isn’t their own accent. (It’s the only country where I have seen non-American accented English speakers, subtitled.)
Oh man this was the best moment of both sequels… which is admittedly like beating two quadruple amputees at swingball but it was awesome none-the-less!!!
What’s so hard? Wow a white from a foreign country looking like a white from another foreign country. MIND BLOWING!!![/sarcasm over]
go aussies u suck yanks
Maybe if the ‘aussies’ ever had any real impact on the world other than having awesome accents, it could be the other way round! There could be American actors that make Australians think they’re Australian. That wouldn’t have any impact on the world EITHER, but hey.
Yes. Americans have had a huge impact on the world.
Every time a morbidly obese American takes a step, there is an earthquake in Japan.
XD
Hey, they’re just trying to balance out the supermodels.
It’s not that hard to sound American. Just pretend you have an IQ that’s 50 less than it is, and that you’re beating your sister while sleeping with her after getting her pissed on Wild Turkey and bingo – there you are.
WOW. That was true AND clever! Amazing!
Oh wait…
It is not that hard to look British either, just never go to a dentist, avoid sunshine at all times to get that pasty doughy look to your skin, have the world’s worse cusine and nuke your beer to the temp of warm pee and bingo your a Brit!!
Do let me know if I missed anything kind sir…..
(grin) So we get bad teeth, bad weather, bad food and bad beer, and you get racism, stupidity, cowardice and George Bush.
Yup. Still glad I’m a Brit.
No racism in Britain – I think the Northern Irish would beg to differ.
No cowardice – yes Neville Chamberlain really stood up to the Germans!
George Bush – we don’t have him anymore. And yes Gordon Brown is sooooo much better
I’m pretty sure Northern Ireland is more about religious differences and political differences than racism. Now, if you’d gone on to the BNP, you’d have had a point, but sadly, you missed
And way to go – picking someone from the 1930’s to symbolise British Cowardice. You couldn’t find anyone from the 1830’s to make your point clearer?
But hey – you’re obviously right about Bush being a better leader than Brown. Why didn’t I see it before? (And that’s another thing – at least we know the difference between sarcasm and irony).
This is the stupidest conversation ever. Like you can judge an entire country because of their least popular leader. Anyone who studied history knows that both Americans AND Britains have shown courage. They both have their bad and good sides, and nit picking at what the media says about the opposing country is just silly. There are different values and different vices, and you just have to accept that.
I’m not judging an entire country based on their least popular leader. I’m judging it based on the behaviour of a (somewhat vast) majority of their citizens. And not their past citizens (from the 30s, 20s, 10s etc) but their present ones.
Plus I am pretty sure I didn’t say the UK was perfect – I might be happy to be a Brit, but that’s only in comparison to being a Yank
(Plus since almost ALL of the sites seem to be turning in to mad propaganda sites, isn’t a bit of sillyness or even stupidity a welcome change from “Firemen yay!” and “If you don’t get down on your god-damned knees and worship the military you might as well let the terrorists win because you already are one”?)
I could see being a Brit, but not an insufferable pommie twit like yourself.
Funniest thing? I’m Canadian and really bored.
Oh, well that’s even worse.. Probably a French Canadian at that.
Hey, way to steal a respected (on Failblog) person’s avatar and scare me for a second! Good job, you racist twit. Makes me sad to be American. If it weren’t for the legal system (I’m a lawyer) I would leave.
Really? I stole it? Well if you go search LOLNews you will see that I have been using it for quite awhile now. As for being a racist, that I am not. I speak from experience when it comes to French Canadians.
There are TONS of people in America. Just because there are a couple thousand (maybe) who fit your description, and are painfully loud and annoying about it, doesn’t mean it’s a vast majority. Learn math. You’d have voted Bush in for a second term too if your alternative was Kerry.
And who are you to be able to some up an entire country? You’re entitled to your opinion, yes, but I most certainly hope you’re not going into politics. Although you’d fit right in, I’m sure.
And no, sir, a blatant superiority complex and a chip on your shoulder is NOT a welcome change from ‘Yay firemen!’
oh for the love of god get your head out of your ass.
And, on a related note, it’s “sum up”, not “some up” and given the apparent obesity crisis in the USA, I’d avoid using the word “TONS” to describe the population, cause it just makes me giggle
And no – I would not have voted for Bush, even if my only other choice was Kerry. In the same way I have no plans to vote Tory even if my only other choice is to vote Labour. I know it might not seem like it, but I have standards.
*Applauds entire conversation.*
You guys just made this caption funny!
OH MY GOSH! You corrected my spelling? That’s the most freaking amazing way to win an arguement! And ‘get your head out of your ass…’ honestly, I’m amazed.
And weight insults…
You know what? You’re right. I’m sorry I begrudged you your opinions. I’m stopping the hate, if I can, because it’s an internet conversation, and we’re both just being silly. Just so you know, it is for the love of God I’m… how you phrased it… taking my head out my ass. Seriously, what does my opinion matter to you, or yours to me? It’s not like you can change someone’s mind over the internet. And as if politics were something so simple! And you may be right about the tons. Glad to make you giggle.
I sincerely hope there are no spelling mistakes in this, but I’m not going to look over it, and I’ve been a horrid speller my entire life.
Its political and religious based prejudices that Northern Ireland faces not racism. If your gonna state that a country has racist issues atleast do a little research first!
brits have camilla parker bowles. nuff said. that lady is a man. just lightly rub a pencil over her face in any photo.. bingo.. five-o-clock shadow, and suddenly.. all becomes clear.
and anyone that thinks the brits aren’t racist (and weren’t?) forgot about the national front.
I say old chap! Indeed you have! One must also invade and subdue 3/4 of the world so that the sun never sets on one’s empire. Then enslave and abuse the heathen natives in the name of “civilising” all whilst sacking and plundering the surrounds all for the profits of His/Her Majesty’s Crown Corporation. Colonies DO exist solely for the benefit of the mother country you know. Once all the resources have been depleted and the natives exhausted you suddenly develop a “conscience” and “liberate” the country by pulling out – leaving the natives impoverished with the used up dregs of a land.
Thus the reason why anywhere in the world when anyone speaks English it is almost always British English (or a variant thereof) and not American English.
And what? Me (being born less than 40 years ago) is supposed to take responsibility for the whole of British History? I can see how that might seem logical. The fact it tall took place a hundred years or so before I was born is no reason not to blame me for it.
So yes – I apologise for invading most of the known world. It was all down to me, and looking back, I have to admit it was foolish. i don’t know what I was thinking. You have shown me the light and I will now go and apologise to every person in the world that was wronged by my actions during the last century or two. It might take me a while, but I can’t deny it will be worth it to make up for all the wrong and the many ills I, personally have poured on the world.
See you in a few years, when I get back from my travels….
Once again, I say: silliest converation ever.
Yeah you’re right Paper. Sorry to go off like that everyone but the incessant America bashing finally got to me. I mean – like every other country in the world is perfect and we are the only ones that do anything wrong. Now I know how the Germans must have felt after WW2.
Not subdue, dear heart, civilise. Deshed heathens were just sitting around gathering flies ’till the Brits arrived, what what? And we invented America; one shudders to imagine what the place would be like if the French or the Spanish had held on to it. And America, not Britain, keeps up the good work of ensuring that English, or some variant thereof, is the world’s language of choice. Passing on the baton and all that.. Course now we’re old and infirm and smell a bit orf, and in a home for the slightly silly, but it don’t matter, we have our memories..
u did forget something….. they don’t bathe either!! smelly and whingy!
uhh.. sorry? since when has his accent, even when trying to fake it, sounded authentically American?? he’s always sounded like he had a british/south african/australian accent buried somewhere under the falsehood.
I’m amused by this, because it’s true.
ummm……..hi, about recent comments about religious differences in Northeren Ireland, I’m from there, have been all my life lol, even tho im 14. Ya know wat we’re learinin bout in history class?? The Troubles, The IRA, The UDA. the Omagh bombing etcetcetc. It’s weird to be teachin that to a bunch of 14 yr olds, ain’t it?
wonderful acting in the matrix.
He was born in South Africa and didn’t move to Australia until he was 17…
I love how people seem to think actors “try to sound American”, because OMG ONLY AMERICAN ACTORS ARE GOOD!!!!1one!!
How did you come to that conclusion? I haven’t seen anyone on this thread even come close to that. I think Americans generally prefer British actors, anyway. Like the cast of…. MONTY PYTHON!!!
well, he isn’t Australian so this isn’t that good. he moved there when he was 16. he grew up in England at boarding school, i went to the same one.