Accents


I'm sorry but I just couldn't buy Duvall and Caine as Nazis. To be honest, I couldn't understand half of what they said during the movie. I'm not sure if it was their accents or a sound editing issue. Subtitles would've helped. I've got tinnitus but not THAT bad.

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The one I couldn't stand was the accent of Anthony Quayle.

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caine wasnt supposed to have a german accent. steiners mother was british and he studied in england and spoke fluent english. as for robert duvall it needed a lot of work. thats what happens when you cast an american in a german role. i thought donald sutherlands accent was the worst. he sounded like he was doing an irish spring commercial. or lucky charms.

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my defence is i'm not english speaking, much of the voices seem added later on, if i didn't recognise the english speaking actors i would have thought it was dubbed, i really get what you mean, i looked away from the movie a while and only heard the sound, and couldn't make up what duvall's role was saying, i guess i had been reading subtitles up to that point, i don't mind actors using their real accents when actually suppose to play another, i think it gets more distracting when they're about to put on an accent, especially since you know how these actors really sound, what's even worse is when they can't settle with english and have to use original language so you have to be glued on subtitles and not enjoy the delivering of the lines, i think most european channels are dubbing into their own language, i'm happy my country don't do that, that's absolutely dreadful and should only be used for children's movies, i like that english speaking news channels usually do dubbing into english though, much of this move incredibly slow for a war / action movie, the first scene with action in is when the irishman gets thrown out of the pub through a window, by the way, what a creepy scene prior to that leading to its result, i didn't mind him getting thrown out, what an unpleasant guy overall in the movie. pretty solid on girl germs, there doesn't appear a female until 40 minutes into the movie, and it's the actress who played corry's robot in the twilight zone episode "the lonely", i stopped watching after she, spoiler, got killed off.



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