RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents”
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#2One of the under the radar movies I watched lately was Death of Stalin, and true beauty of this dark comedy was the simple fact that none of the actors tried to speak English in a Russian accent and on top of it, there is a mix of British and American accent depending on the actor. This made the movie truly enjoyable and free from pretense.
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#3One of the under the radar movies I watched lately was Death of Stalin, and true beauty of this dark comedy was the simple fact that none of the actors tried to speak English in a Russian accent and on top of it, there is a mix of British and American accent depending on the actor. This made the movie truly enjoyable and free from pretense.
I enjoyed this movie too, but bear in mind many people hated it, because of how it portrayed what it portrayed: not the accents mind you, the lack of moral judgement about the (semi true) scenes.
Lots of literature talks about the range of accents in the russian empire and CCCP. So, at one level having a mix of accents for the different characters exposed a real underlying complexity of what it is, to be a modern (19th century) Russian/Georgian/Ukranian/...
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#4One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch.
It's no better with Brits. I never could watch House after loving Blackadder, and The Walking Dead is so weird after being a huge fan of This Life. (i.e. the lead character in both are English)
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#5One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch. It's no better with Brits. I ne…
I am happy about this happening because the Australian and British accents are unintelligible sometimes.
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#6One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch. It's no better with Brits. I ne…
I am happy about this happening because the Australian and British accents are unintelligible sometimes.
I feel the same about American accents. Sometimes they talk so fast, fail to annunciate and it sounds like they have something in their mouths.
I'm a Brit living in Australia.
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#7One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch. It's no better with Brits. I ne…
I am happy about this happening because the Australian and British accents are unintelligible sometimes.
American accents are often so unintelligible as to need subtitles - I can't watch many Hollywood films without them, especially if the dialogue is quiet or secondary to something happening on-screen.
The issue here of course being that "big film" is made in Hollywood and country-specific film industries are often much smaller and tend to stay far away from big-budget genres, rather than that we should try and find a globally understandable accent. Hollywood having taken over the globe is not really a good thing for anything except economies of scale.
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#8One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch. It's no better with Brits. I ne…
I am happy about this happening because the Australian and British accents are unintelligible sometimes.
They are unintelligible to you due to the fact you never hear them. And once they become intelligible you'll have a larger amount of material to consume and you'll be even happier.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am happy about this happening because the Australian and British accents are unintelligible sometimes.
I feel the same about American accents. Sometimes they talk so fast, fail to annunciate and it sounds like they have something in their mouths. I'm a Brit living in Australia.
> fail to annunciate
I think you mean "enunciate".
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#10"Hunt for Red October" does this. Everyone uses their own voice on the Russian sub.