she kept swapping from european english to american english and one point even spoke with a twinge of an irish accent. This completely ruined the film for me. I am hypersensitive to accents because I study them but I guarantee you if you watch this film and listen to her accent she keeps swapping from a french accent to american.
she seriously needs to see a dialect coach.
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shareI attempt to enjoy the entire film process and not just dote on one aspect or actor. Yes, I did notice a slight change in her accent but not to the extent that you claim. And even with that - she still turned in a great performance.
It's one thing to be someone who, like yourself "studies" accents with great passion, and another to put that into the process of acting in a film. There are many other element to consider-for example, directors often don't want a dialect coach on set, or there may have been a sudden accent/character change that the actor had to make after studying a different accent, or even something as simple as 're-writes' are a night mare for the foreign-speaking actor. Also, it takes an extraordinarily keen post production "ear" to maintain continuity through the editing/ADR process. If you see this actress in MUNICH, you will see her own accent, which then, was even coached for clarity, I believe. There is quite a difference.
Unless you worked on this film, it might seem prudent to reserve such harsh judgement.
The character wasn't supposed to be native English speaker anyway. People sometimes don't speak all languages perfectly, even if they're scientists. She was supposed to be Italian. Her English was pretty good, though.
shareI noticed her accent shifting as well. The Assassin also had a shifting accent.
I loved the book "Angels & Demons" and while I knew the movie would have to make certain changes I was, for the most part, disappointed with the movie. One of my issues with the movie was the portrayal of the Vittoria, which was much different than in the novel. While the actress clearly had trouble maintaining an accent, I blame the character's problems on the writer. Even in the hands of director Ron Howard the film was only so-so where it could have been brilliant. It just goes to show there is only so much you can do with a week script.
"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go." - Indiana Jones
I wrote it off to the fact she spent time with Langdon. It happens to me that I pick up the vernacular and pronunciation and cadence of the area or people I am with, if even for a few hrs!
share(I know this is old, but I have to comment anyway) That's even wORSE! Just saw the movie again and remembered why, years ago, I cringed the first time around. Her Italian is BY FAR the WORST I have EVER heard in Cinematic History, and that is genuinely impressive!!! She has the WORST Italian accent, the WORST French accent and well, her English is PASSABLE for a non-native speaker although it's absurdly all over the place (highly unlikely in real life). I should add... I am not usually hung up on accents in films. Also, that there are only THREE authentic Italian accents in the whole film, woefully underused, and all from Italian actors (2 bit parts). No wonder this movie bombed... And why would Ewan McGregor have an Irish accent when he was taken in as a child and grew up in Italy (and trained and educated in Italy) and again, have a pathetic Italian accent? Usually accents don't matter this much, but when the setting of a movie is critical to the storyline, and so are the languages spoken in it, how does this crap make it to production? It'd be fine if it was an indie trying to say something... but with the budget they had it's truly, truly sad and all that detracts from the movie in an incisive and unforgivable way. Really ... what a terrible shame.