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International marketing is misleading


The poster and trailer in this article (http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2015/06/trailer-for-admiral-starring-charles-dance-and-rutger-hauer.html) are suggesting Charles Dance is the lead in this film. He's actually only in a couple of scenes, as most of the film revolves around De Ruyter who is portrayed by Frank Lammers. Dance isn't even in the Dutch poster, but has been clumsily chopped into the international one (in front of Lammers even, which is a bit insulting to be honest). It's like making Andy Serkis the lead star of Age of Ultron.

Also, you might want to know that, unless they're dubbing the film, most of it is in Dutch. No problem if you don't mind reading subtitles, but the trailer pretty much edits together most of the actual English dialogue in the film. There's a couple of scenes in English, one or two in French, and the rest of it is in Dutch.

The film itself is okay; not great but an impressive historical epic considering its low budget (which, at 8 million euros, is very high in the Netherands, but it's a small country after all). Just don't walk in expecting some British epic starring Charles Dance. He's in it, but only in a supporting role. Same goes for Rutger Hauer.

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lol that's shady...
charles dance looks so copy paste in that poster.
this will probably hurt the movie critically.

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Yes, I thought it odd that Dance should be so prominent in the publicity, but I enjoyed the movie overall. I am a history fan, and always like to see movies that explore the parts of history that I am less familiar with.

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Seems like the main actor isn't Hollywood enough, fat, curly, small and ugly. I kinda understand why Charles is the actor in the international trailer. The same way I understand they probably exaggerated the numbers of boat in the naval war.

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Hahaha, I watched this movies last weekend with my American fiancé (I am Dutch myself). And after seeing the first scene she said... I kind of expected a slim, dashing, young hero, which is the standard in American hero movies. But she liked that they tried to depict him more realistically. I like that too.

The battles in that time easily reached number of between 50 to 100 ships on each side. So the number of ships is not THAT exaggerated. There definitely are exaggerations, but the number of ships not that much.

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