[ SECRET POST #5508 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5508 ⌋

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[Shadows House]


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[Wheel of Time]


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[Majora's Mask]


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[Chernobylite]











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Comments

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

I really love accents to start with. I hate when English-speaking media do this "standard" thing. I have a soft spot for Scottish ones even when I don't understand them that well.
(on the other hand I wish western media stopped doing faux-accents for people who are supposed to be speaking in their own language in character. But judging backlash over HBO's Chernobyl I am not going to see it anytime soon)

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

>>I wish western media stopped doing faux-accents for people who are supposed to be speaking in their own language in character.
FUCKING THIS. I'm ESL and I find this actually offensive most of the time. Make the character either speak in "standard" English or their native language with subtitles. Sometimes those faux-accents are very difficult to understand and add nothing to the atmospere of the setting. If the character is speaking English it's OK, because the character will have an accent when going for a foreign language (or if it's an old English accent), but if the setting is outside English countries and the people are speaking their own languages just DON'T DO FAUX ACCENTS. It's distracting and don't add anything at all!!!
If you want faux accents, you should get actors from those foreign languages AT LEAST. But I'd hate it too if the setting were their country of origin and they'd be speaking their native language among themselves.

IDK about the backlash on HBO Chernobyl so can't comment on it.

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

YES EXACTLY.
Of course foreign person speaking English will most likely speak with an accent.
But if you are doing "universal translator" thing in a movie why would you want this frankly offensive accent.

Oh, it was a whole thing. People were complaining "why Russians (funnily enough, Chernobyl is in Ukraine but I digress) speak with British accent". Oh, I don't know, maybe because they don't speak English at ALL

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

During the accident Chernobyl and Ukraine were still part of URSS, so maybe they think about that? People in Chernobyl spoke both languages back then and still now. IDEK still incorrect, but in this case it make a little bit of historical sense. But I'm being generous here.

I would've hated if they film it with a faux accent and I think people from Chernobyl would've hated it even more. People sometimes are dense and don't have much imagination so they can't picture an English speaking person as a foreign speaking their own language. Too much effort! They need to be constantly reminded that the setting is not American/British centric. IMHO this discourse is a big indication that those people don't usually watch media not centered around American/British history and characters.

Re: Favorite accents

[(Anonymous)]

They were using Russians as a shorthand for Soviets/Russian-speaking people, I am sure. It's understandable, but borderline offensive.

Yeah, that's a good point. Media is really USA/English-centric and it impacts views greatly.