I really think this movie would have been a lot better had they used French with subtitles for the parts that take place in France.
It really bothers me that a film trying to be realistic pulls this *beep* Especially annoying is the half-assed way the English dialogue makes such includes "madam" every other word as if this can trick the viewer that the characters are speaking French.
Really? Is there a notable movie that has done that? I mean, if you think they should do it then grab a camera and hop to it.
I love foreign films and don't mind the subtitles (Das Boot is one of my favorites, which is also a WWII movie), but they do distract you from the film.
I can't think of one single notable non-foreign film movie that had 90% of its film in subtitles. That's just ridiculous. No one would go then!
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I understand what you mean, but it really wouldn't make much sense, artistically or monetarily, to create an English-speaking film and then have French-speaking actors play the parts. That would also make the film a foreign film and no longer an English-speaking film, (which is what the public would have paid for, an English-speaking film) because the majority of the dialogue is in French. But I too scratch my head when English-speaking actors are placed in a foreign country, and then we are expected to believe that they are speaking that country's language, but really they are speaking English, yet signs, posters, menus, etc., are in that country's language. Either go all in or not at all, I say!
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Subtitles only distract me for the first minute, then I stop noticing them. It's unfortunate that lots of people won't watch subtitled movies, but then French speakers also buy movie tickets, so it's not like they would only lose sales. And who cares if more French would cause some people to think of it as a foreign film? That's not a dirty word.
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