Arnie's accent was so bad in this…
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sonbuhitsunei — 15 years ago(August 12, 2010 02:40 AM)
Oh get a clue he's FROM AUSTRIAof course he has a damned accent. Good lord.
My Grandmother was a very intelligent woman, and a school teacher (she taught German, French, Spanish, and English, no less), who came here on a boat and made her life from nothing back in 1952. She did extremely well for herself in life, and was ALWAYS sharp as a razor- she was born in Estonia, near Russia, though was forced to flee the russians as a child and lived as a child in Nazi Germany, and thus spoke German during much of her childhood.
And after more than 5 decades in this country? And teaching 4 different languages (and she was proficient in them, and her pronunciation was top notch), when speaking normally, she still had a detectable accent.
The fact of the matter is, unless you are making a conscious effort NOT to show an accent, 99/100 people who were born in another country and spoke another language throughout their childhood, WILL always have something of an accent.
If you think it's so easy, I would LOVE to see you go to Europe, learn German, and even after 30 or 40 years I bet you any money you'd still have an accent that the locals would pick up on quite quickly. Very few people are so fluent in 2 languages that they have no discernable accent when speaking either, to the people who natively spoke that language- unless they were raised and taught 2 languages simultaneously throughout their childhood and into adulthood.
Or go to Japan- live there for 40 years, though you spent your first 20 in America. Guess what? When you're 60, you're stil going to sound like an American speaking Japanese to people who grew up there.
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milkminder2003 — 13 years ago(March 17, 2013 09:56 AM)
i dont understand how it can improve through the 80s and become acceptably good in some movies (considering how thick his accent was) to the dreadful accent he has today.
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preachcaleb — 11 years ago(October 08, 2014 11:05 AM)
Automated dialogue replacement.
It's when the actors go into the studio to re-record their lines that were either too mumbled or not clear or some background noise interfered with the audio.
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preachcaleb — 11 years ago(October 08, 2014 11:21 AM)
What I meant is it depends on the quality of the ADR and how meticulous the sound technicians and directors are.
Just like with any other movie effects, some are good and some aren't.
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jdhowes1138 — 11 years ago(February 27, 2015 10:55 PM)
In an article on Arnie in Australian Empire magazine (February 2013) there's an interview with screenwriter Steven E. de Souza (Commando) who tells how he and Arnie would go through his dialogue and replace anything that would be difficult for him to say properly, (I was worried about giving him a tongue-twister. So he'd say, "I vonder vere Villy vent on Vednesday," and I'd change it to "Frank was furious on Friday." Later nobody did this exercise with him. Suddenly there were reviews that said, "His English was getting better and now it's worse!") So it wasn't so much his accent getting worse as the dialogue not accomodating him in later movies.
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