Clearly the answer is I shouldn't refer to movies I haven't seen nor want to see.
Legolas Send a noteboard - 14/09/2011 10:10:37 PM

You seem to list films here that worked despite of characters being played by actors with different origins than the character. How does Inglourious Basterds fit in then? Tarantino tried really hard to cast people from the respective countries or at least capable of speaking the language. The whole point of several episodes within the film was to make fun of the fact that characters in spy movies used to get away with only rudimentary knowledge of the language they are trying to infiltrate.
Somehow I was thinking they all spoke English, though now that you mention it I feel like I should indeed have remembered from the discussions that they didn't. Oh well.
There are plenty of movies I could name instead, obviously, but somehow a movie like, say, Memoirs of a Geisha doesn't really make quite the same impression.

The Three Musketeers (2011)
13/09/2011 09:34:25 AM
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Oh dear. I may not survive this. *NM*
13/09/2011 01:34:33 PM
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I plan to...
13/09/2011 09:51:33 PM
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are there French actors who would lower themselves to an America Film?
14/09/2011 02:49:53 PM
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Lower?
14/09/2011 11:52:46 PM
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The "lower" was mostly a joke
15/09/2011 01:45:59 AM
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Re: The "lower" was mostly a joke
15/09/2011 04:28:36 AM
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I explained to you why a majority of America would not be comfortable.
15/09/2011 01:27:19 PM
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Re: I explained to you why a majority of America would not be comfortable.
16/09/2011 10:48:36 PM
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That seems a bit harsh.
14/09/2011 07:35:56 PM
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I am confused...
14/09/2011 09:46:45 PM
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At a guess ...
14/09/2011 10:05:00 PM
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No. I try to pretend Valkyrie doesn't exist.
14/09/2011 10:12:25 PM
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Can I ask why? You've got me curious.
14/09/2011 10:33:57 PM
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Are you really trying to make me argue both sides of the argument in one thread?
14/09/2011 11:04:50 PM
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Clearly the answer is I shouldn't refer to movies I haven't seen nor want to see.
14/09/2011 10:10:37 PM
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I had no idea Scarlett and Ashley were played by brits *NM*
14/09/2011 11:01:06 PM
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And not just any Brits... Leslie Howard died on some sort of mission for his government in the war.
14/09/2011 11:08:26 PM
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Ok, if Orlando Bloom is a cackling over-acting villian, I may have to see this.
13/09/2011 10:03:06 PM
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Haven't seen it yet, but...
14/09/2011 02:17:02 AM
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I think with that attitude it is entirely possible to have fun with this film. *NM*
14/09/2011 11:48:50 AM
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Definitely waiting for this to hit the cheap theater. Then it can just be a guilty pleasure. *NM*
15/09/2011 01:24:23 PM
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