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option A) 1. Have people speak perfect English, thus letting the actors shine, and not have the viewers have to read subtitles. 2. Have really good British/Am
by ilogik 7y ago
option A)
1. Have people speak perfect English, thus letting the actors shine, and not have the viewers have to read subtitles.
2. Have really good British/American actors do a fake (and probably bad) Russian accent, just for funsies
3. Hire actual Ukrainian/Russian actors, and use subtitles all the way.
Option 2 just seems stupid to me, the characters didn't speak in a foreign accent, they spoke in their own. Between Option 1 and 3, I prefer 1.
- nindalf 7y agoOption 3 can work really well. Narcos had folks speaking in Spanish with most of the world reading subtitles. As someone not from South America, it felt more authentic than if Escobar was speaking English throughout. Of course, I'm glossing over the fact that the actor playing Escobar didn't sound like he was from Colombia at all, but that's not apparent to most of us non-Spanish speakers.
- NikolaeVarius 7y agoAren't you just drawing another arbitrary line? It doesn't sound authentic in English, but its fine that they didn't speak in his native accent even though it wouldn't be authentic?
- dragonwriter 7y agoArguably, the artistic choice was a strong for one Narcos because the foreignness of the majority of the setting to the viewpoint characters was central to the theme; that's arguably the opposite of what Chernobyl was aiming for.
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- dangerbird2 7y agoIt's like how as ridiculous as it was to have Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October playing a Russian naval officer who talks like Sean Connery, it's much less ridiculous than Sean Connery playing a Russian officer who talks like Sean Connery faking a Russian accent.
- mimixco 7y agoNo one so far has mentioned that actual Russians who learned English would be learning British English and not American so that 'accent' for them seems totally on point. Making people read subtitles would only serve to eliminate 75% of the audience.