• Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    1168·
    11 months ago

    Not high art, but refreshing to see actual acting in a comic book movie.

    Especially after they made an entire island of warrior women do Israeli accents just to paper over the fact that their lead actress can’t fake a different one.

        • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          112·
          11 months ago

          Specifically, Pacino’s “Cuban” accent was so bad that actual Cuban cast members were trained to mimic it just to help it be less glaring. Additionally, Pitt’s “pikey” was so nonsensical, the other actors couldn’t even begin to approximate it and the disconnect is visible onscreen in their reaction time to his lines.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
            71·
            11 months ago

            and the disconnect is visible onscreen in their reaction time to his lines.

            I thought that was intentional, like part of his character, that he speaks nonsensically.

            • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              22·
              11 months ago

              Nope. Pitt “panicked” and leaned into nonsensical rather than accuracy (likely due to his shite accent in The Devil’s Own).

              • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
                51·
                11 months ago

                But it was part of the character. The other characters react to him with dialogue. He just couldn’t do *Cockney, so they improvised.

        • shinratdr
          51·
          11 months ago

          He’s saying that his bar for high art is higher than “other comic book movies” but still pretty low.

          To use the metaphor from the meme, he’s swam in a lake, but still not the ocean.

    • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.eeEnglish
      64·
      11 months ago

      Do we know what Scythian accents sound like? Because the Amazons were based on Scythians, so that would be the most accurate accent.