wait a minute... this is a film set in Germany with supposedly German persons everywhere so why the f**k is everyone speaking English?!
Aleric
· 1 year ago
Because it is made for an American audiance and most don't like to read subtitles. I personally think it is more authentic to have them speaking the native language, but popular rules out.
Robin Ruinsky
· 1 year ago
It's not a foreign language film. The actors wouldn't be speaking German. But I'm assuming what you're really asking is why the actors used a British dialect. A British dialect is sometimes used as a "neutral" dialect. May sound odd but it's treated that way sometimes. Obviously a choice was made not to use a German dialect.
Nevernude
· 1 year ago
:@ Robin Ruinsky
no no im not questioning the "british" accent (did anybody detect a british accent?) ", there is no freaking such thing! Im British and the accents here are broken down into regions, generally, there are a wide array of accents in Britain therefore i can quite understand this generalisation of the accents here. )
anyway, my point is i really wish native dialects would be used in movies which center on foreign lands. example; the Benicio Del Toro movie, Che, where the native language is spoken. For me, it adds to the authenticy. I don't mind reading subtitles and i dont think any filmgoer should either.
Robert Fure
· 1 year ago
Well, I don't mind listening to movies in English, even when we're talking to Italians and Germans, etc. No big deal. When Mel Gibson filmed 2 different films in their native and real languages, everyone made fun of him.
Filming in a foreign language limits casting - Viggo doesn't speak German and probably couldn't learn enough German in time to make the film and act at the same level he does in English.
Robin Ruinsky
· 1 year ago
It sounded like they were using what I would call a British stage dialect. I know that British dialects are very varied. I've seen this done before.
Mariana
· 1 year ago
I agree with what someone said before - perhaps the movie is in English so more "known" faces could be casted; I agree that when the movie is in the native tongue it gets much better, but sometimes it's hard to do it (well, sometimes it backfires, like "Memoirs of a Geisha"; the dialogues sucked because they had to adapt it for all the Asian actresses who couldn't speak it very well). Since I'm not American, I wouldn't know if this choice was made regarding the preference of the US audiences for dubbed/English-spoken movies (I hate it when they're dubbed, though).
I'm probably the only one who's more excited about "Good" because it features Jason Isaacs than Viggo Mortensen. Jason doesn't get enough attention from the media, in my opinion.
jack2jack
· 1 year ago
I can't wait for this movie to come out. Viggo chooses his movie roles very carefully. He's never made a movie that I did nt enjoy from beginning to end. Unlike some actors that are in it for the $$$$. Viggo's choices (in my opinion) reflects how he wants to grow as an actor. Unlike some actors who play the same character in every movie.
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this is a film set in Germany with supposedly German persons everywhere so why the f**k is everyone speaking English?!
But I'm assuming what you're really asking is why the actors used a British dialect.
A British dialect is sometimes used as a "neutral" dialect.
May sound odd but it's treated that way sometimes.
Obviously a choice was made not to use a German dialect.
no no im not questioning the "british" accent (did anybody detect a british accent?) ", there is no freaking such thing! Im British and the accents here are broken down into regions, generally, there are a wide array of accents in Britain therefore i can quite understand this generalisation of the accents here. )
anyway, my point is i really wish native dialects would be used in movies which center on foreign lands. example; the Benicio Del Toro movie, Che, where the native language is spoken. For me, it adds to the authenticy. I don't mind reading subtitles and i dont think any filmgoer should either.
Filming in a foreign language limits casting - Viggo doesn't speak German and probably couldn't learn enough German in time to make the film and act at the same level he does in English.
I've seen this done before.
I'm probably the only one who's more excited about "Good" because it features Jason Isaacs than Viggo Mortensen. Jason doesn't get enough attention from the media, in my opinion.