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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue.  That never EVER happens in real life.  It’s baffling to me why directors always do this.  I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes.  It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.[/quote]

Maybe someone posted this already and I missed it but: This is indeed irksome, but it's also dying out in today's shows and films. My DD loved the series "1899" in which characters spoke in multiple languages throughout. Viewers had options to stream a subtitled version or (I think) a dubbed version. But the whole "everyone speaks in accented English" thing was not present. DD, who watches a ton of excellent shows and is really into details of production, says this is increasingly common, too. So your pet peeve is, let's hope, going to die out pretty quickly -- probably thanks largely to international shows on streaming, and production of shows aimed at international audiences who won't tolerate the "accented English" thing. [/quote]

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