Notice his shopping list on the wall.
Posted on 02/28/2015 11:52:40 AM PST by PJ-Comix
One thing that bugs me about certain films is when a foreign character is played by an obviously "too American" actor. It doesn't mean the film is ruined but often great movies are jarring when that obviously "too American" actor has a scene. One such movie that was otherwise great was "The Blue Max." It had great aerial combat scenes but it bothered me that the lead character, Lt. Bruno Stachel was being portrayed by the way too American George Peppard.
Then there was "Amadeus" in which Mozart was portrayed as if he were a crazy American frat boy by Tom Hulce.
Tom Cruise as Count Stauffenberg? I don't buy that either.
Of, course there is the greatest miscasting example of all time when Genghis Khan was played by the All American Duke Wayne.
“Latin Romans in togas were not British.”
That always drove my mother nuts on Masterpiece Theatre. Romans, French, whoever they were all played with British Accents. I couldn’t really agree with her thought. I guess I’m a rube, but at least with the brit accents they sounded “foreign”.
The TV show, the Americans does that. When the Russians in the embassy (or whatever it is, it might not be the embassy) are talking they speak in Russian and have subtitles. I respect that, but it’s kind of annoying at the same time.
Definitely the best post of the thread.
Ridley Scott always hires many of his fellow countrymen for parts in his films, even if the roles are American. Sometimes it works, but in “Blackhawk Down” was pretty egregious.
I don’t mind subtitles. Das Boat was great and I just watched a French film with sub titles.
Schwarzes!
Good list but never watched it.
>>Bugs me when the director of a movie made for an English speaking American audience thinks it would be more authentic to have the foreigners in the film speaking their own language and expects me to be able to read the subtitles<<
But at least there are paragraphs in those subtitles... ;)
Good scene with Lennie James explaining what made him crazy. (He couldn’t kill his zombiefied wife and she ended up killing their son)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RyJ9T_LicU
Hast du gesehen in deine leiben? Dey Darker den us...WOOF!
Robert Redford (with no English accent) as upper class Brit Denys Finch Hatton in “Out of Africa.”
I heard the Brits were rather annoyed at all the American actors in THE GREAT ESCAPE. The entire Luftstalag 3 was British. That decision was Hollywood using known actors for, at that time, mostly an American audience.
The first movie I ever saw with (Kiwi) Russell Crowe and (Brit) Guy Pearce was LA Confidential, and afterwards, I was very surprised to find out they weren’t Americans. Not only were their accents authentic, their body language was, too, IMHO.
Great movie, btw!!
"Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."
And the great Jeannette Goldstein played an Irish immigrant in Titanic. So very talented!!!
Winona Ryder attempting anything British.
I don't universally mind American actors playing roles based on foreigners. British and Australian actors make a fine living playing Americans. But of course, they're highly trained in their craft, including the mastery of every dialect of the English spoken word, and generally speaking pull it off with most of the American audience unaware that the character playing Al Capone with a flawless Brooklyn, NY accent was born and raised in Liverpool (Stephen Graham in Boardwalk Empire).
The problem is when Hollywood decides to cast one of their can't chew gum and walk at the same time "stars". Some can pull it off, for example Edward Norton did a fine job playing an Austrian Jewish magician in The Illusionist. But most American major actors get by more on their looks than any talent or training.
That gets my vote...
I liked the film and I like Issacs as an actor, but the accent oddness was noticeable.
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