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Thursday, 28 February 2002

Spy Game

Yesterday we saw Spy Game in a sneak preview. For a major Hollywood movie it was actually really good. Very well acted and never boring although it runs about 2 hours. The story is told extremely well. I can definitely recommend it.

What I wanted to talk about in this post is something different though. Part of the movie plays in Germany and it’s so funny to hear those “Germans” speak German. I can’t believe it is so hard to find a couple of German actors in Hollywood for a short speaking role. Only one or two of the actors who played Germans actually were Germans. The others spoke German but it was very clear that that was not their native tongue. I bet it’s like that with all non-English languages in Hollywood movies. Only I don’t notice it then because I don’t know that language. I wonder if it sounds like proper German to Americans…

And another thing I notice was that when Brad Pitt and Robert Radford talk German (which they do a couple of times) it’s not very convincing either. They don’t have an American accent. They have some sort of accent but it doesn’t sound like Americans talking German. It’s kinda hard to explain but it just didn’t sound right. Or maybe it was because of the strange sentences they said ;)

This doesn’t make the movie worse or anything. It’s just something I noticed…

[Archive Link]  Posted by Edda at 23:06 CET

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