Originally Posted By: dontomasso
Pacino has a Bronx accent, mama sounds more like Brooklyn. Robert Duvall is not a native New Yorker, so he probably used a voice coach to develop a sort of New York accent. Brando improvised his, no doubt, some Italian and some New York.

I don't know that Michael's accent changed so much as his voice. Someone can enlighten me here, but I think he was very sick and got that gravelly voice at some point in his life. With the voice change, his diction is more clipped, so it sounds like a different accent, but I don't think it is.


I agree. It's not his accent that changed. Rather, it's his voice. He's gotten older during the tenure of he Trilogy so his voice will change.


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