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I was wondering if anyone knew wheter Kevin Bacon really spoke tose lines or was dubbed over... because if it realkly was him I thought he sounded rather good
(maybe the native germans are rolling their eyes right now... but I don't recall really heaingr any kind of an accent)
In an interview Bacon explained that he had the studio send a German language coach to his home and the funny anecdote aspect of the story was that he realized that they sent him a dog trainer when he noticed how his dogs were acting around her. She ended up working with the dogs, he joked, but he said she was also good with him; she translated the lines for him, gave him the pronunciations, and he then went around listening to it in his iPod, basically non-stop for multiple weeks. However, the director threw a curve ball at him at the last minute by saying that he now wanted Bacon to speak some of the lines he had been learning in German, in Russian.
shareHuh, thats interesting. Thanks. Did he speak those lines in russian though?
I mean I think I recognize the difference between German and Russian, but I think I didn't hear any russian in that scene (it has been years since I saw that movie and scene so my memory may fail me)
He still spoke German in the movie. It's just that he was supposed to have more lines in German and some of them were changed to Russian during production.
So when he's in Nazi Germany, interacting with a young Magneto, he's absolutely speaking German. However, there's also a scene where he's talking to a Russian general in the "present" and there he's speaking Russian. Those lines, apparently, were originally written in German, requiring Bacon to spend weeks learning how to say them in that language and then, all of the sudden, he had to learn to say them in Russian instead. That's all I meant.
Yeah, he talks absolutely horrid German to my ears. And I'm not German.
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