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Related: I really enjoyed the movie Inglourious Basterds. It was especially original and interesting, as it relied heavily on languages and accents for the plot
by isolli 6y ago
Related: I really enjoyed the movie Inglourious Basterds. It was especially original and interesting, as it relied heavily on languages and accents for the plot.
However, what killed my suspension of disbelief (as a native French speaker) was the fact that the French actress spoke with an unmistakable early 21st century accent, definitely out of place in a second world war movie.
This was a big letdown, considering how much attention had been given to accents in the rest of the movie.
- hpkuarg 6y agoWhat a great movie! Still my favorite Tarantino film to date. I suppose the whole accents thing was directed for the primarily Anglophone viewer (since some of it depends on reading the subtitles, if you do not understand the language), so perhaps we can forgive Mélanie Laurent for not bothering with a 1940s accent.
- koyote 6y agoIt's been a while since I've last watched it and I might be completely wrong here as I am no expert in accents, but I believe that none of the languages spoken had an accent that sounded like someone from the 1940s. Both the English and German were much closer to a 21st century accent than a 1940s one, and so was the French one as you mentioned.