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Fake Accents

posted 17 years ago by Ohiowatha
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Why do filmmakers insist on having actors employ fake accents in movies where Americans play people of other cultures? First off, not many actors can do an accent well, so having the entire cast try it is a sure failure. This movie is a perfect example. Not only were most of the accents very bad, they mostly tried to emulate the Russian dialect. If you are Polish or know many Polish people, this is a glaring mistake, though perhaps not immediately obvious if you don't. It just makes the whole piece seem ingenuine and cheap. Why not just have everyone use their own voice--aren't the sets, costumes, and subject matter enough to convince people of the context? Making bad actors emply bad accents really degraded the quality of this film for me. The whole thing felt like a farce.

Was this an effective tactic to you, or did you find it erroneous to the plot?

Do fake accents ever enhance a film for you?

[–] Zoneage 16 years ago

Quit your bitching. Would you rather have an American actor with a Southern accent?? " Howdy ya'll let's stop these Germans you here?"

Come one now, the accents in the movie were good enough for me, at least it lets me know the movie has something to do with another country.

[–] GhostRiver 16 years ago

No, I'd rather have an American actor employ whatever accent with which he is born. You wouldn't have to employ southern stereotypical modes of speech, you simpleton.

And, Zoneage, you really need an accent to understand that a movie "has to do with another country?" Isn't the context, setting, subject matter enough? I guess if you're this stupid, it must not be, "ya hear?"

[–] scottytohottyy 16 years ago

its not really fake because their were all kinds of jews mexican ones polish ones with all diffrent backrounds they dont all sound the same. Each person is diffrent my *beep* grandma is from germany grew up knowin not any sort of english and she talks like any other american in english.

[–] BravoM16 16 years ago

Right, there were Mexican Jews living in Warsaw, Poland. Good God you're freaking retarded!

[–] rogermccarthy 13 years ago

I just watched Swing Kids last night where supposed citizens of Nazi Hamburg all talk with unmodified American and English accents and found that far more irritating.

[–] anatja 11 years ago

Errrm, not every actor in this is an American, we have Sadie Frost,Luke Mably, Cary Elwes, Andy Nyman, Anton Lesser and Stephen Moyer (Brits) Donald Sutherland(Canadian) Radha Mitchell (Aussie) Mili Avital (Israeli) A Slovak, a Dane, an Austrian, goodness knows what else.

Why talk of Americans at all?

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[–] overninethousand 11 years ago

The whole film is fake.

Just compare this cheap revenge fantasy with real testimonies: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto_testimonies/f ighters.asp