Which Family has best regional accent?

[Extortion]

My vote goes to Chicago.

[Peppermint]

It’s obviously New York, it’s always New York.

Whenever anyone is imitating a mobster, or an Italian in general. It’s always done in the style of New Yorker, always using phrases like “Fuhgedaboutit” which is literally posted on a sign as you’re leaving Brooklyn.

Even in movies, when they’re supposed to be portraying the Chicago Oufit and the Midwest Families, like the movie Casino. They all sounded like New Yorkers, probably because the actor are. But you’d think if that wasn’t such a stereotypes, they’d have the actors use more appropriate accents for the role. Talking about damaging immersion.

Anyway, definitely New York.

[Flushing]

Funny how the Sopranos utilized NYC accents but when your in Jersey the accent is noticably different. Just saying.

I always hated that about Tony Soprano. People in North Jersey don't talk like Long Island guys.

[Grouchy Sinatra]

It’s obviously New York, it’s always New York.

Whenever anyone is imitating a mobster, or an Italian in general. It’s always done in the style of New Yorker, always using phrases like “Fuhgedaboutit” which is literally posted on a sign as you’re leaving Brooklyn.

Even in movies, when they’re supposed to be portraying the Chicago Oufit and the Midwest Families, like the movie Casino. They all sounded like New Yorkers, probably because the actor are. But you’d think if that wasn’t such a stereotypes, they’d have the actors use more appropriate accents for the role. Talking about damaging immersion.

Anyway, definitely New York.

Actually Pesci had a very good Chicago accent in Casino. He did his homework on Spilotro. There's a video of Spilotro walking out of a courthouse with Oscar Goodman and the usual goons that Pesci obviously watched. Spilotro was even telling bystanders to be careful as they got too close to traffic. I remember when I first saw Casino at the theater Pesci's midwestern accent jumped out at everyone right away. There were even some chuckles at first.

[Mustangsally]

It’s obviously New York, it’s always New York.

Whenever anyone is imitating a mobster, or an Italian in general. It’s always done in the style of New Yorker, always using phrases like “Fuhgedaboutit” which is literally posted on a sign as you’re leaving Brooklyn.

Even in movies, when they’re supposed to be portraying the Chicago Oufit and the Midwest Families, like the movie Casino. They all sounded like New Yorkers, probably because the actor are. But you’d think if that wasn’t such a stereotypes, they’d have the actors use more appropriate accents for the role. Talking about damaging immersion.

Anyway, definitely New York.

Pesci's Chicago accent was perfect in casino.

[Peppermint]

It’s obviously New York, it’s always New York.

Whenever anyone is imitating a mobster, or an Italian in general. It’s always done in the style of New Yorker, always using phrases like “Fuhgedaboutit” which is literally posted on a sign as you’re leaving Brooklyn.

Even in movies, when they’re supposed to be portraying the Chicago Oufit and the Midwest Families, like the movie Casino. They all sounded like New Yorkers, probably because the actor are. But you’d think if that wasn’t such a stereotypes, they’d have the actors use more appropriate accents for the role. Talking about damaging immersion.

Anyway, definitely New York.

Actually Pesci had a very good Chicago accent in Casino. He did his homework on Spilotro. There's a video of Spilotro walking out of a courthouse with Oscar Goodman and the usual goons that Pesci obviously watched. Spilotro was even telling bystanders to be careful as they got too close to traffic. I remember when I first saw Casino at the theater Pesci's midwestern accent jumped out at everyone right away. There were even some chuckles at first.

I literally haven’t noticed such a thing at all, and I’ve seen that movie a ton of times. Now I have to watch this movie again, and really listen for it. Because Pesci sounded to me as he always did lol

[Bruno187]

It’s obviously New York, it’s always New York.

Whenever anyone is imitating a mobster, or an Italian in general. It’s always done in the style of New Yorker, always using phrases like “Fuhgedaboutit” which is literally posted on a sign as you’re leaving Brooklyn.

Even in movies, when they’re supposed to be portraying the Chicago Oufit and the Midwest Families, like the movie Casino. They all sounded like New Yorkers, probably because the actor are. But you’d think if that wasn’t such a stereotypes, they’d have the actors use more appropriate accents for the role. Talking about damaging immersion.

Anyway, definitely New York.

Actually Pesci had a very good Chicago accent in Casino. He did his homework on Spilotro. There's a video of Spilotro walking out of a courthouse with Oscar Goodman and the usual goons that Pesci obviously watched. Spilotro was even telling bystanders to be careful as they got too close to traffic. I remember when I first saw Casino at the theater Pesci's midwestern accent jumped out at everyone right away. There were even some chuckles at first.

You're absolutely dead balls right GS. I listen to guys like Frank Culotta doing his interviews on Youtube and the documentaries about Spilotro and can't help but think of Pesci and how well he did his homework for that role.
It's a funny thing about accents that when you're stuck in the middle of them, you don't hear them or notice them, but after being "away" from them for a while, they sound absolutely foreign and immediately striking when you're placed back in them.
For Christ sake I would go home to Northern Westchester where everybody speaks like they're from a J Crew catalog and think I was in a foreign country, get used to it after a week, then go back to the Bronx to see my old man and say, "Wow, this guy sounds like he's out of a movie....do I sound like that too?"

[Grouchy Sinatra]

Culotta has a magnificent Chicago accent. Sounds like Mike Ditka.