„Die Odyssee“: Jeder, der amerikanische Akzente verwendet, hat definitiv die Wahl
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-odyssey-nolan-american-accents-trailer-1236586611/
„Die Odyssee“: Jeder, der amerikanische Akzente verwendet, hat definitiv die Wahl
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-odyssey-nolan-american-accents-trailer-1236586611/
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How dare the actors not know how to speak with ancient Greek accents
Because the British accent was always rooted in logic.
The nitpicking with some of the details is kind of insane.
Choosing British accents just because a film took place at some point before the 20th century is probably the lamest fucking thing in film history.
And Nolan is British with a British accent btw
It would be pretty funny if they all had a boston accent.
Just get Bryan Adams to do a banging theme song and nobody will care about the American accent.
Upper class English accents would be far more historically accurate,
Not every film needs to try to be realistic. I liked in Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ, he just let people talk how they talk.
True they should all use Received Pronunciation as that’s the form of English that we all know was spoken in the ancient world
I kind of don’t care but I must admit when I saw Tom H. say „dad“ instead of „father“ it was a bit jarring.
this is always funny to me. Like people saying Denzel sounded like a New Yorker in Gladiator 2. And that’s more immersion-breaking than doing a phony British accent, I guess.
Choosing to nitpick the accents used in a film adaption of a 3,000 year old story feels incredibly asinine.
No less ridiculous than the standard upper class English accent all historic dramas are seemingly supposed to have
The concept of it being „just foreign enough“ is an extremely America-brained take.
Why is this a surprise? Have people never watched movies like this before?
My favourite was Irish accents in Alexander
Are they speaking in Greek?
I am pro ignoring accents in translated works thanks to Death of Stalin.
Nobody knows how these people sounded when they spoke. American accent is honestly as accurate as a modern Greek one.
Chernobyl is one of the best shows I’ve seen in a while. Just an amazing show. Absolutely none of the main cast attempted an accent. Hell the main guy just rocked his thick British accent. It was initially weird, but the show was so good, I stopped thinking about it.
Using posh British accents for historical epics and fantasy is a trope almost as old as Hollywood itself…it’s kind of silly but no one ever questions or challenges it. Although it is definitely jarring to hear everyone sound so modern and American in the new trailer, I do believe we’ll all get used to it once the movie starts and the tone is established
If they were using british accents instead, would this article have been written?
They should have Scottish accents instead just like in 300
It really irks me when Tom Holland says « My Dad. »
I understand the weirdness, but, similarly to the criticism of any period piece, would it be any more realistic if they spoke English with other accents? Like the immersion element is something we are kind of doing to ourselves by insisting old timey people talk certain ways.
are they supposed to have British accents?
Do you want them to just be all speaking Greek or have thick Greek accents?
It’s an American movie. they’re speaking American
It’s really funny how we never balk at people using ahistorical British accents in historical dramas taking place in ancient Greece or Rome or even fantasy movies taking place in Middle Earth.
We’ve just quietly accepted that people in the cinematic past are all Brits for some reason, but an American accent breaks the immersion.
Unless you want them speaking in Ancient Greek I don’t see why you would complain about this
Christopher Nolan’s choice: Hire only British/European actors who can pull off British accents convincingly, or hire the biggest box office stars in the world, since everyone can do an American accents convincingly, but few Americans do a convincing British accent. Can’t say I blame him for choosing butts in seats over historical accuracy.
It was never going to have the accents from ancient Greece so what difference can it possibly make? As long as it’s consistent, they can all sound like South Park Canadians for all I care.
Good? The unwritten rule that ancient people should be speaking English with British accents has always been an arbitrary and dumb thing.
Faked accents are usually bad.
Look at Chernobyl. Everyone was playing Russian, but using British accents. Would Matt Damon trying (and likely failing) to sound like he has an ancient Greek accent make the movie better?
You know we should have the Boston accent as a DVD feature, god I miss those
It is a choice, yeah. And like the set photos everyone freaked about with the costumes, I fail to realize why that should make me doubt that Nolan’s Odyssey will be anything less than he usually gives us. So much discussion about how awful this movie is going to be, I’m still betting it’ll be worth watching.
Complaining about accents in a period piece where they wouldn’t speak English anyway is peak media illiteracy.
Not too many people are fluent in ancient Greek
Bernthal and Travis Scott donning a British accent would be too difficult for them. I’d get a refund for such folly.
As opposed to the cliche British accent we’d all expect?
Unless they’re speaking in Homeric Greek and the various dialects, using an American English accent is just as arbitrary and disingenuous as any other European accent.
My boy Odysseus here is wicked smaht
I’d rather their natural accents then the standard “kinda British but it’s for old languages” accent.
Baz Luhrmann made the same choice for Romeo and Juliet. It was excellent.
Idk about everyone else but if I watch a movie that is technically supposed to be in another language I just assume that they are speaking that language but we just hear English for us to understand. It’s very meta and makes literally no difference but I like thinking about it like that
American film with America actors where worldwide audiences is not gonna to care they didn’t cast Greek actors and speak in greek to be “properly” authentic. And if had too wide a variety if accents would just draw more attention to it so might as well be consistent.
I would absolutelty prefer Greek looking/sounding characters but at the same time, it’s not any worse than everyone having British accents and that’s been standard for a long time.
What accent would you go with though?
Because the British accent sounds much better than the American? Hardly controversial
Also, could we compare with Troy, which was essentially the Illiad (you know, Book 1… The Odyssey would be book 2). It had Brian Cox as Agamemnon and Sean Bean as Odysseus. Love these actors, and it was well made, but British accents are totally wrong.
“My Dad is coming home” uttered in an American accent in The Odyssey is fucking wild.
Am I supposed to be upset they are speaking in English at all?
It’s a choice, as in a choice had to be made and to just follow old movies that for some reason uses posh English accents makes as little sense as any accent, so going against the grain and doing American accents for Hollywood doesn’t sound weird to me.
Id prefer ancient Greek accents …. Thanks Nolan