Tragic accent, suitable for Trainspotting II, made Vikings sound like a joke. New british' cinema greatest fail.
shareI hate how Hollywood takes any time period and any culture and gives them a british accent to make them seem ancient.
share"I hate how Hollywood takes any time period and any culture and gives them a british accent to make them seem ancient."
This isn't a Hollywood movie. This is a British movie.
Listen, you have access to the internet that gives you the ability to get accurate information. The internet isn't only for entertainment and gossiping on web forums. You can actually use it to educate yourself every once and a while.
I was just saying in general, I haven't seen this movie thanks.
shareYou know that there are three countries in Britain right?
What you're hearing as "funny" are English accents.
Trainspotting is a Scottish film and has Scottish accents.
Also this is a British film, not a Hollywood film. If it seems quite Hollywood, that's the price we have to pay to pander to the general ignorance of a particular nation.
The anti-American sentiment in this British nation will one day be it's downfall. Talk about general ignorance, your comment proves how ignorant you are. Here is a British film with the chance to do what they please. Surely the most basic of necessities is to get actors capable of at least a passable scandinavian or "viking" lilt to their speech. The American T.V. show "Vikings" managed this quite well, so why could this not be done on the big screen. One of the very first spoken lines in this film is broad Cockney!! For me, the film dies right there. As for these "Vikings" effing and jeffing every few words....well, how ridiculous is that! Possibly the worst British film I've encountered to date. I hope the casting director is working in McDonalds now.
When the language in a film is not the one that would have been used historically, how is a lilt helpful in any way, isn't it somehow worse, a poor stereotype?
Through this logic every Roman-based TV show (in which almost everyone has an English accent) should have been made with actors trying to pull off some cod-Italian lilt? We know they're Romans.
The language of the Vikings remains unchanged for a thousand years in Denmark/Norway/Sweden? [pick one to identify that they're Vikings]. We know they're Vikings.
Why is it wrong to use accents that people have a frame of reference for in order to provide colour to characters?
Star Trek is set in the future, language will have changed, should a future lilt have been created to identify that we're watching people from the future?
I'm not anti-American, I'm anti-ignorance. There is no British nation BTW.
"The anti-American sentiment in this British nation will one day be it's downfall."
How comical. No chance.
As for the accents, the Scandinavian accent today is not the accent the Vikings had. There is no problem with the accents used in the film.
Vikings is a joint Canadian/Irish production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_(TV_series)#Production
shareAs a Scandinavian I am "insulted" to have British actors speak some ridiculous English with a fake Scandinavian accent whether it is fake Danish, Norwegian or Swedish. How is it more believable to do like in those war movies where Germans speak English with a fake accent to each other. It is ridiculous beyond pale. If they can't speak proper Danish, then don't try any accent at all.
shareIf I were a Scandinavian I too would be insulted. Quite obviously the film makers want their film to be viewed by the largest audience possible and so I can (from a financial point of view) understand their need to use English language. I do NOT understand why they chose these particular actors who make no attempt at all to hide their various, very distinct regional British accents - and the use of profanity is particularly needless much of the time. At least the actors in Vikings (t.v. series) had believable accents.
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Get over yourself troll and stop acting so superior to everybody. Watch it otherwise the Troll Hunter will get you :D
shareYou know what I found worse? "The Last King" with Kristofer Hivju, the Thormund guy from Game of Thrones. Based on a true story, there are both danes and norwegians in it, but at the time, they all spoke norse, respectively western and eastern norse, which had only dialectal differences. In this new movie, the danes speaks purely modern danish, it feels so out of place for the time. Easier for the main body of moviegoers to comprehend, I guess, but period dramas usually attracts a certain type of people.
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There aren't actually four countries in Britain as Scotland recently voted against independence and Wales has never been truly independent as a fully recognized country. http://www.picturebritain.com/2015/02/england-scotland-and-wales-countries.html or https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-4753-post-156330.html#pid156330
When a Scots person or Welsh person cannot vote for their own Party/Prime Minister to lead their own country rather than someone referred to as the English Prime Minister (not as the UK or Prime Minister of Great Britain) then you are not a true country. And yes, you are quite right, Wales was independent for 5 seconds in the dark ages, but I should have checked that detail more fully even if it has little bearing on current events.
When you play rugby for Wales or Scotland, but then are allowed to play in the same team together and be called Great Britain then you do not have three countries but just one country with the other two making England look good when they win at sports etc...
Has Scotland or Wales won any gold medals at the Olympics?
And when Andy Murray won the Wimbledon grand slam in 2013, it wasn't about a Scotsman winning the title, but about the first "British" bloke to win since Fred Perry in 1936. But when an Englishman ever wins Wimbledon, they'll forget that Andy was ever a "British" winner and claim the first Englishman who comes along, every time.
I would love to see Scotland and Wales as totally independent nations so that the English could not inflate their standing in the world on the back of these two groups of people. Imagine the Olympics if England did not have Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in their team? Or the end of the British Lions, as they would have to play the might of the NZ All Blacks or the South Africans always using their own players alone.
As to accents mate, the English accent can change from one county to the next, let alone from say London to Glasgow or Essex to Swansea. Most Americans would find it hard to believe that someone from Newcastle, only a few hours from London comes from the same nation as a Cockney Londoner. And most wouldn't care either. They'd just say, "well at least it doesn't have subtitles!!!" But then again some of them might need subtitles to understand some of the dialogue in this film.
This movie is something to watch when you've had several tequilas and you're still aren't quite unconscious yet. It was a lazy way to make a cheap action film and will be remembered accordingly!!!
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what are you on about?
Wales did indeed have independence for 40 years during a revolt. Also before the creation of England with one king as one nation Wales was run by various lords and barons so was independent then as well. Even way before that when the Romans invaded they didn't occupy all of wales.
As for your idea that voting for a prime minister makes you a country? Um we can't vote for a prime minister anywhere in the UK. He is voted in as an ordinary mp in his constituency like the other 650 mps........ it's his Party that make him leader and thus prime minister.
Wales, scotlamd and England have their own identity, history. So despite what your 'feelings' are on the matter they are countries in their own right.
Please stop typing, possibly give breathing a miss too.......
There are 4 countries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ireland you plonker.......
and yes Wales was completely independant during several periods in its history........
Good to see you add some wit to the subject even if you have trouble spelling in English. I have lots of friends from Scotland and Wales who don't agree with you and who would rather be totally independent one day. Brexit may even make that come more quickly. Thank you for your marvellous response as it was about what I expected...
shareNothing wrong with the accents at all. You seriously need to check that attitude! The film makers obviously wanted people to be able to understand at least most of what was being said.
shareAmericans are not well schooled on the various accents from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Most of my countrymen tend to lump them all together and can't hear the unique beauty. Still, it is embarrassing when someone hears an accent, refers it to a Scottish film and tries to compare it as such.
Maybe this is why so many comments on Imdb accuse Americans (USA) of being stupid.
Lol. Tragically moronish, aren't you, my american friend. The "tragic accent" is the Yorkshire Dialect and some Welsh. Read more - you'll learn more.
shareWhat a Neanderthal. That the best you can do? Grade school swearing....very intelligent. Shame you haven't the intelligence to post something more constructive but I'm certain the board admins will be contacting you very soon.
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