In my opinion the movie is great, except for the fact that when it shows Germany, people there are speaking to each other in English, but with rather strong German accent.
It's just ludicrous. I think it's better to just let them speak normal English.
well at least there wasn't a scene "ve haff vays to make you talk"
shareIn my opinion the movie is great, except for the fact that when it shows Germany, people there are speaking to each other in English, but with rather strong German accent.
It's just ludicrous. I think it's better to just let them speak normal English.
This was a huge conundrum we had when making the film. Because Howard is not German - he lived in the US until he was 7 - and so would sound different then all those around him, he would be speaking German with something of an American accent. Part of his 'outsider' status.
So... how to tell that story? How to make Howard not just sound like everyone else in Germany? Ultimately, we went with everyone else having German accents, and not Howard. Arguably it was an imperfect solution, but we could never come up with a better one.
We could have had no one with any accent, but then Howard would have blended right in, that felt wrong.
We could have had everyone speak German, and have Nick do a less than perfect German accent, but that would have been so subtle that almost no non German speaking American would have gotten it. And more important, Nick doesn't speak German, so it would have meant forcing a great actor to speak phonetically for a big chunk of the film.
So we ended up here.
Keith