From a movie in which a Danish atress, plays the Danish Queen Anne. A real difference from the absurdness of Meryl's version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdcE6C4DPhM&feature=related
Forward to the scene which is 25 minutes into the movie.
Listen to Connie Nielsen speak English. Not much of an accent. (She speaks 8 languages fluently) So it's ok for Streep to have any she wants.
Gott ist tot.
Nietzsche
So any Dane from any era speaks with exact same English accent?
What we have here is failure to communicate!share
The real absurdness is the almost pathological obsession some people have over Streep's accent in the movie.
"I told you it was off." The Jackal
She sounds just like the real woman, Isak Dinnesen however you spell it.
shareMeryl Streep didn't do "a Danish accent", she did Karen Blixen. She had recordings of Blixen speaking, and as always prepared for her role impeccably.
shareSome people have tin ears and the Streep accent will sound fine. Good for them. For the rest of us, an expectation that a professional actor in the modern era will prepare sufficiently so as not to arouse this sort of criticism of a movie, and yes, a failure to get it right will detract from the entire venture, is a base level expectation.
For a multi award winning actor earning millions per movie, that level of accolade has a corresponding level of expectation from paying audiences.
People don't pay good money to see a film hoping that an actor gets it wrong. Jeez.
I think what many don't realize is that, during the time period in which this story takes place, Danes, like much of the world, learned "British English". This greatly affects an accent. Another example of this is the classic "Apu" Indian accent, which is the accent of an Indian who has learned British English....today, it is not as pervasive as it once was because many Indians have learned "American English".
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