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>It’s accepted that the US movies and television industry can’t get contemporary Germany right The US movies and television industry can rarely get any languag

by gield 2y ago

>It’s accepted that the US movies and television industry can’t get contemporary Germany right The US movies and television industry can rarely get any language right. This reminds me of the Dutch-speaking scene in Oppenheimer which no Dutch speaker can understand [1]. It's like a sped-up pronunciation of a nonsense Dutch sentence by an English-speaker trying to speak a horrible German accent. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFORgWaYrBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFORgWaYrBU

davedx 2y ago
Ha yeah I remember that part. I speak Dutch and it basically sounded like German to me? Really strange.
roywashere 2y ago
Also, in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", a 2019 movie with a 160M budget, they go to "The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic, and it looks like Prague but with tulips, with a Polish actor supposedly talking Dutch. And then Spider-Man gets arrested and thrown in a "Dutch" jail which does not look at all like a Dutch jail, but is obviously some middle-european building, which makes sense as "Amsterdam" was shot in Prague too
- dagw 2y ago
  "The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic To be fair, they do this with a lot of location in the US as well. "New York" is often Atlanta or Toronto in many American movies.
scoot 2y ago
The video you linked to says that in the movie it's explained that Oppenheimer spoke German, and learned Dutch in a short amount of time. If so, him speaking Dutch with a German accent seems appropriate, if slightly exaggerated. However a novice in a foreign language will speak more slowly than natives, not more quickly, even if reading a prepared speech (as was likely the case in that setting, and especially given the advanced language used that no beginner would have mastered), so not sure what the thinking was there.
turquoisevar 2y ago
Haha this had me chuckle as a native Dutch speaker. I will admit that they nailed the German-Dutch accent. However, the weird choice to use “translatie” which, while technically is a Dutch word, wasn’t common even back in the period this is supposed to take place and feels more like a lazy translation of… well the English word “translation”, combined with, what I can only describe as “just blurt it out as fast as you can” direction, makes this very comical.

by gield 2y ago

davedx 2y ago

Ha yeah I remember that part. I speak Dutch and it basically sounded like German to me? Really strange.

roywashere 2y ago

Also, in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", a 2019 movie with a 160M budget, they go to "The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic, and it looks like Prague but with tulips, with a Polish actor supposedly talking Dutch. And then Spider-Man gets arrested and thrown in a "Dutch" jail which does not look at all like a Dutch jail, but is obviously some middle-european building, which makes sense as "Amsterdam" was shot in Prague too

dagw 2y ago
"The Netherlands" which was shot in Chech Republic To be fair, they do this with a lot of location in the US as well. "New York" is often Atlanta or Toronto in many American movies.

scoot 2y ago

The video you linked to says that in the movie it's explained that Oppenheimer spoke German, and learned Dutch in a short amount of time. If so, him speaking Dutch with a German accent seems appropriate, if slightly exaggerated. However a novice in a foreign language will speak more slowly than natives, not more quickly, even if reading a prepared speech (as was likely the case in that setting, and especially given the advanced language used that no beginner would have mastered), so not sure what the thinking was there.

turquoisevar 2y ago

Haha this had me chuckle as a native Dutch speaker. I will admit that they nailed the German-Dutch accent. However, the weird choice to use “translatie” which, while technically is a Dutch word, wasn’t common even back in the period this is supposed to take place and feels more like a lazy translation of… well the English word “translation”, combined with, what I can only describe as “just blurt it out as fast as you can” direction, makes this very comical.