Hollywood accent coach critiques 32 actors' accents

[KarlS]

@zathras

This different way of thinking about foreign accents has an interesting effect on movies: when an American movie is set entirely in a foreign country, all the actors will speak English to each other in a foreign accent. I hear that and I keep thinking: “why do they keep struggling with a foreign language when they are among themselves?” and sometimes “wow, that four-year-old has already studied a foreign language!”. A German or Austrian movie would just use regular, fluent German as a substitute for a language we wouldn’t understand.

Oh yes, English with an accent indicating the language it represents is such a bizarre Hollywood convention.