Support NeoGAF

[UnNamed]

Is this a joke? What's the point to use a fake Italian accent during all the movie? Comments everywhere (in US) praise Lady Gaga for her accent, but it sound russian/Slavic to italians. Now I know how russians feel when they are portraited in a foreign movie.

Is this the equivalent of pineapple on the pizza?

 

[Azurro]

Oh man, that is a terrible Italian accent.

 

[Patrick S.]

Isn't she of Italian descent?

 

[Avid Reading Horse]

And speaking proper Italian is so simple:

 

[INC]

This has an OJ vibe (that last series they did)

Like its trying to be a meme of hallmark film, but serious

Odd tone

 

[GymWolf]

This is somehow worse than when she had that meat costume...

 

[SJRB]

Incredible cast but holy hell it looks like shit.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I dunno, come to Italy and have a conversation with Italians who can speak English but can't be bothered to make an effort and attempt an actual English accent. It's not that far off. Leto is the only one who really sounds like a parody in this trailer.

 

[godhandiscen]

Gaga speaking her lines with that fake accent is awful.

Is Ridley Scott trying to prove something by casting her for that role?

 

[sunnysideup]

why does americans always portray italians meatabaull eating dagos?

this is the gucci family?

 

[Lupingosei]

why does americans always portray italians meatabaull eating dagos?

Because neither the Italians nor the Irish for example care that much. With anybody else, there would be somebody on Twitter to be offended.

There are very few professionally offended Italians.

 

[Fbh]

Yeah sounds terrible.
But then again I've always disliked the whole accent thing. Either get actors that can speak the actual language, or just shoot it in english but have the actors speak normally.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I thought it sounded Russian too.

 

[poppabk]

Netflix and other streaming services have spoiled me - I much prefer movies where everyone speaks the appropriate language to their situation and background.
I rewatched Taken the other night, and the scene where Liam Neeson is pretending to be a French cop while speaking English is funnier than Maggie Grace's 'running'.

 

[Javthusiast]

I gave up expecting hollywood to nail these accents. Russian accents have been butchered for eternity.

Yeah sounds terrible.
But then again I've always disliked the whole accent thing. Either get actors that can speak the actual language, or just shoot it in english but have the actors speak normally.

Which is why I have so much respect for Chernobyl. The showrunner basically said, instead of them trying to do shitty russian accents they will speak british english etc. and we will just let the viewers assume they speak russian.

 

[dr_octagon]

 

[Marvel]

At least she looked hot.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

Nothing wrong with pineapple pizza

 

[ManaByte]

Comments everywhere (in US) praise Lady Gaga for her accent

She could decapitate a baby live on YouTube and her fans would be praising it.

 

[ÆMNE22A!C]

She could decapitate a baby live on YouTube and her fans would be praising it.

Keeping tabs are we?

 

[GeorgPrime]

Thats one of those movies that are so bad that they needed a great cast for it?

 

[ManaByte]

Thats one of those movies that are so bad that they needed a great cast for it?

I mean you kind of know what happens.

 

[Soodanim]

I dunno, come to Italy and have a conversation with Italians who can speak English but can't be bothered to make an effort and attempt an actual English accent. It's not that far off. Leto is the only one who really sounds like a parody in this trailer.

I'll take your word for it. But when I spent a weekend in Milan no one sounded Russian. She definitely sounds like a Hollywood Russian to me.

The "Firecracker" line was far and away the worst. They might as well have given Ron Jeremy that Mario costume and stuck him in the movie.

 

[showernota]

Gucci vill haff to keel moose and squirrel.

 

[Jeff Spicoli]

Great trailer.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Isn't she of Italian descent?

Yes, and all the people of Russian descent playing bad guys in American movies also have terrible Russian accent.
If they were Americanised during their childhood they have no connection to the country of their parents.

 

[NewtScamander]

You tell me....

 

[Jasper_Rose_808]

I dunno, come to Italy and have a conversation with Italians who can speak English but can't be bothered to make an effort and attempt an actual English accent. It's not that far off. Leto is the only one who really sounds like a parody in this trailer.

As an Italian I can explain this by saying that in Italy the situation with general English knowledge is a disaster: if the majority of young Italians can't speak a word of English (maybe outside of simple sentences like "May I go to the toilet please?"), you can imagine what is the situation with the rest of the population.
In a situation like this someone that can speak English, even with a terrible accent, is C1 by the standard of the country; and I know, it's embarrassing.

 

[It's all in the wrist]

I'd rather see Gaga with a bad accent than someone else. She's an interesting choice for the role.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Shouldn't italians play italians now?!

 

[KielCasto]

Impressive talent behind this movie. Accent sounded Russian to me but maybe because I'm used to hearing Hollywood russian.

 

[ManaByte]

Shouldn't italians play italians now?!

 

[Mato]

I think the last time I saw Gaga in something and liked it was in The Fame Monster. So yeah, it's been a while. I'm still not convinced she can act.

 

[Revolutionary]

I don't think I can stomach another movie with terrible accents so soon after Black Widow

 

[Fuz]

Still waiting for us italians to start crying "racism" about those things.

 

[Fuz]

You tell me....

She's talking like an italian who's speaking a terrible english.
She's not talking like an italian.

She also don't know how to use a teaspoon in a coffee cup.

 

[BarringGaffner]

This is like on the Soprano's when they all go to Italy and realize American Italians are a joke to Italians.

 

[Great Hair]

Nothing wrong with pineapple pizza

If your girl is interested in this, this is your chance to start over. Who the fuck wants to watch that shit?

 

[Irobot82]

Yeah but Jerod Leto, wholly fuck!

 

[Relativ9]

Hollywood actors doing Continental European accents are almost always terrible, it's easy to notice when it's such a famous and well defined accent like the Italian one, but for example Hollywood has been doing Norwegian (lots of Marvel) accents more and more recently and holy fuck are they terrible, you all just don't realize it cause there are so few of us and you never hear us speak.

 

[Tschumi]

-

This gif a stand in for any one from The Hunt For Red October

 

[Futaleufu]

This is like on the Soprano's when they all go to Italy and realize American Italians are a joke to Italians.

That was their tragedy: too italian for americans, and too american for the italians, they couldn't fit anywhere.
"And you thought germans had no class"

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

I could never get past the first 10 mins of Chernobyl with the British accents. Give me a bad accent anyday

 

[dr_octagon]

-

This gif a stand in for any one from The Hunt For Red October

 

[Pagusas]

I could never get past the first 10 mins of Chernobyl with the British accents. Give me a bad accent anyday

Agreed, lol at the easier poster praising it.

 

[Gp1]

Shouldn't italians play italians now?!

Lady Gaga has the twitter pass to dress himself with meat. So fake italian is peanuts.

At least the 80's did justice with russians.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

As an Italian I can explain this by saying that in Italy the situation with general English knowledge is a disaster: if the majority of young Italians can't speak a word of English (maybe outside of simple sentences like "May I go to the toilet please?"), you can imagine what is the situation with the rest of the population.
In a situation like this someone that can speak English, even with a terrible accent, is C1 by the standard of the country; and I know, it's embarrassing.

This is not true anymore - smartphones and the pervasiveness of English in science and social studies mean that many Italians born since the mid 90s-early 2Ks can understand and use English a lot better than previous generations. It's true, though, than many of them can't be bothered to attempt to sound English, and many can't conjugate verbs correctly if their lives depended on it. Still, the average level is way beyond what it was 20 years ago, mainly when it comes to understanding written English.

Still waiting for us italians to start crying "racism" about those things.

We're still too racist ourselves to notice
But seriously, we're so used to being stereotyped that nobody's going to understand why that may be considered a problem in another country.

 

[Fuz]

We're still too racist ourselves to notice
But seriously, we're so used to being stereotyped that nobody's going to understand why that may be considered a problem in another country.

Maybe because we're not little bitches who cry at the slightest hit and we can take jokes like adults.

 

[Clear]

Modern trailers are such formulaic trash.

 

[DKehoe]

This is like on the Soprano's when they all go to Italy and realize American Italians are a joke to Italians.