TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I have this problem with a scifi stuff I am pitching... So this is a secret international science project... and everybody speaks Spanish? 

[The Brain]

Do they speak Spanish Spanish or Latin American Spanish?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Spanish or Latinx?

[Barrister]

I have this problem with a scifi stuff I am pitching... So this is a secret international science project... and everybody speaks Spanish? 

The Death of Stalin was all in English, with nobody even trying to fake a Russian accent.

Just go with it.  Your viewers will understand.  Don't even give your characters Spanish names - make them yanks, Brits, Russians, whatever.

[Sheilbh]

The Death of Stalin was all in English, with nobody even trying to fake a Russian accent.

But I kind of love the diversity of English accents which kind of does suggest different bits of the USSR/Russia is vast etc. But obviously mainly because it gives us the delight of Yorkshire Zhukov.

So make some of them Andalusian and some Argentine etc and all speaking in their own accents

[Syt]

I have this problem with a scifi stuff I am pitching... So this is a secret international science project... and everybody speaks Spanish? 

Rosamunde Pilcher TV movies set in Cornwall are entirely filmed in German. Don't sweat it.

[Berkut]

Yeah, I don't get that. I've always assumed any language is assumed to be just the language of the telling, not the language of the characters.

I mean, I wasn't wondering why all these guys working at Chernobyl spoke English, for example.

[Sheilbh]

I mean, I wasn't wondering why all these guys working at Chernobyl spoke English, for example.

But - again as with Death of Stalin I really liked the regional accents.

Edit: Although my default position is that any time you're using a different language to the language of the actual characters it should be handled in the same was Hunt for Red Octber - and I don't understand why that isn't industry standard

[Berkut]

I mean, I wasn't wondering why all these guys working at Chernobyl spoke English, for example.

But - again as with Death of Stalin I really liked the regional accents.

Well, good movie making is playing with the constraints given, right?

Agreed...

[Syt]

But obviously mainly because it gives us the delight of Yorkshire Zhukov.

But Jason Isaacs is from Liverpool

[Sheilbh]

But obviously mainly because it gives us the delight of Yorkshire Zhukov.

But Jason Isaacs is from Liverpool

And he moved to London and went to a very posh school so his "natural" accent is just posh British.

Mark Kermode, the film critic, is a school friend of Jason Isaacs and has an anecdote of his South African accent in Skyfire. That first of all, apparently, he just loves doing accents so unless the director tells him "no", he will. But Kermode asked him why he had such a broad South African accent in the film when no-one else appeared to have anything to do with South Africa. Isaacs says that - well the inspiration for the character in his mind was Elon Musk and he knew Musk was South African, but it was only 7 or 8 weeks into filming that someone showed him a clip of Musk speaking and he realised he doesn't have a wild South African accent

[Syt]

 

[Barrister]

I mean, I wasn't wondering why all these guys working at Chernobyl spoke English, for example.

But - again as with Death of Stalin I really liked the regional accents.

Edit: Although my default position is that any time you're using a different language to the language of the actual characters it should be handled in the same was Hunt for Red Octber - and I don't understand why that isn't industry standard

Been a long time but I thought Red October's use of Russian subjected the audience to Connery's really bad fake Russian accent.  I don't otherwise recall how they "handled" the language question.

Although Harrison Ford's Russian accent in K-19 was even worse!

[Sheilbh]

Been a long time but I thought Red October's use of Russian subjected the audience to Connery's really bad fake Russian accent.  I don't otherwise recall how they "handled" the language question.

Although Harrison Ford's Russian accent in K-19 was even worse!

They start in Russian and then casually segue into English - so we were exposed to Connery's really bad fake Russian. Tragically Russians were exposed to Connery's, what I can only imagine was even worse, actual Russian

[HVC]

i admire Connery's steadfast refusal to do accents. makes his movies more memorable