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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

honestly, i didnt like phoenix in naploeon. i seem to be in a minority with that opinion though.

why does a frenchman have an american accent?

especially when everyone else had british accents. the inconsistency bugged me throughout the film

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

why does a frenchman have an american accent?

Because a bad impersonation would be worse?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

i would prefer better casting. there are 32 million frenchmen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, House of Gucci would like to have a word. Couldn't even finish that movie because of the ridiculous accents.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For me the awful accents is what made the movie fun to watch

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Napoleon's first language was Italian, and he spoke French with a Corsican accent. France conquered the Corsican Republic in 1768, Napoleon was born in 1769 to a line of minor Italian nobles (not that Italy was an actual thing yet)

TL;Dr he shouldn't have a French accent because he didn't have one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Was the Corsican accent closer to an American accept though? Otherwise the point still stands

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Then the chuckleheads would complain that they got some Italian guy to play him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That bothered me severely in the first Wonder Woman movie. Wonder Woman and her actor friend can speak like every language, which is demonstrated on screen, but the Germans speak English. There was not so much German talk in the movie that it could not have been in German.