I wish the movie was 'closed captioned'.
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mrochiii — 14 years ago(April 23, 2011 04:31 AM)
Yeah its mind boggling, really is. (I'm talking about in context to this movie)
Not hard to get, if it is, then go outside and talk to more people that are not your own nationality.
Heres a story happened a year ago, I had a mate up from the country come down to mine.(were from aus for some context i guess)
I live in a city, he doesn't.
We went out to get Chinese (there is no Asian restaurants up were hes from), he could not for the life of him understand anything the waiter was saying. Yeah it was broken English but I heard it like the Queen was speaking to me, so I ordered for him.
What im getting at is yeah just get out more srsly -
chas77 — 14 years ago(April 25, 2011 12:25 PM)
if it is, then go outside and talk to more people that are not your own nationality.
This comment shows an insane level of arrogance. I am from Los Angeles - do you have any clue how many DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES ARE REPRESENTED HERE? I can assure you that it's a hell of a lot more than your suburbanite white-washed village. I meet and talk with people all the time. Most people from Los Angeles (since you've obviously never been here, maybe you can do some wikipedia sleuthing, Sherlock) were not born here. Nearly everyone is from another city, state, country. One of my workmates is from Edinburgh. Even she had trouble with some of the dialogue in "Harry Brown."
So please stop making insulting generalities. There are thousands of people who come to imdb.com. Are you saying that only Americans have trouble understanding accents? Are you representing the entire world? -
mrochiii — 14 years ago(April 27, 2011 12:44 AM)
Are you saying that only Americans have trouble understanding accents?
No?
Are you representing the entire world?
No?
You are assuming that,
"So please stop making insulting generalities" - you
"I can assure you that it's a hell of a lot more than your suburbanite white-washed village." - you being a hypocrite
I live in Melbourne
pop: 4,077,036.
In 2006 35.8% of Melbourne's population was born overseas.
a fun website!
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/AboutMelbourne/History/Pages/multiculturalhistory.aspx
My room mates English he understood. Maybe you two are just dummies. (Well I guess so since you just blatantly contradicted yourself.) -
chas77 — 14 years ago(April 27, 2011 12:25 PM)
I was making up a generality (white-washed suburbanite village) to show you how it feels. You made the statement that Americans should step outside more to understand different accents if they didn't (heaven forbid!) understand all the accents in "Harry Brown." You made this statement. Are you backing away from it now?
So you and your roommate understand the accents. Good for you, mates! It sounds to me like you are still stating that if you don't understand all the accents in this film there must be something wrong with you. -
mrochiii — 14 years ago(April 27, 2011 07:20 PM)
wowe
When did I ever say Americans? Please answer me.
Why do you think you have been targeted?
Are you that self-involved that you assume I'm paying out American's.
"It sounds to me like you are still stating that if you don't understand all the accents in this film there must be something wrong with you. "
Yes, and no.
But I was thinking and now realize its probably because I listen to a lot of rap music, and thats why I can understand it fairly well. -
chas77 — 14 years ago(April 28, 2011 09:44 AM)
My apologies I was writing so quickly I did not realize that I was originally responding to "Captain Haddick" not you "Mrochiii." He made the stupid posts about "culturally ignorant" not you so please disregard what I wrote in reference to you, mrochiii.
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KlutzyGirl — 14 years ago(August 29, 2011 05:20 AM)
OP, my DVD player, which is a cheap basic model, has a subtitles button. Try it next time. I used it for the parts of this film where the druggies and gang bangers were talking and it helped tremendously.
IMO they were supposed to be hard to decipher because they were either loaded and slurring, or talking in their coded language so they could purposely not be understood by the general public. Cockney rhyme slang is a good example of this; until recently, most people not from the neighborhood had no idea what they were saying. -
chas77 — 14 years ago(August 29, 2011 09:36 AM)
Now listen here, Klutzygirl and EvangMangaccording to "Capn Haddick" you shouldn't NEED THE SUBTITLES as he puts it:
The thing is, I would understand if English wasn't your first language, that would be more understandable
Since Cap'n Haddick is the end all and be all of English-speaking cinema I suggest you NOT use the subtitles and just find a way to understand the accents however that works out for you. Is English not your first language? If it is, then you should not need to use subtitles, accents or not, region, dialects or not you should be able to understand it.
Bloody Americans. They just don't get it. -
filmmagnet — 14 years ago(August 28, 2011 03:21 AM)
I read that Ken Loach's film "My name is Joe" had subtitles in its US release because of the thick scottish accents that Americans would have supposedly found untelligible- I haven't seen that movie though. But I'm pretty sure I've never had any trouble understanding English language in any movie regardless of the accent.
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the_dirty_bandage — 14 years ago(April 23, 2011 12:45 PM)
Something I've noticed based around shows/movies I've watched (I haven't seen this one yet, unfortunately): apparently people from Northern England are hard to understand even for people from England. On
Misfits
, Lauren Socha's character is pretty hard to understand throughout the first episode, especially when she's panicking.
Something else: on
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
, there was an X-Factor contestant who went on to have a music career on the show, and Noel Fielding said "I can tell you're from the North because you're acting out what you say. You remind me of the people who come to London and have to act out everything because we can't understand what the hell they're saying."
On a more personal note: I've played British television and movies for my sisters, and two of the three couldn't really follow some of it. Sometimes accents, no matter what kind, are indecipherable. There are people in America who can't understand the American South.
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