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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 09:59 am
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Now we will rant...
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 08:56 pm.
It's a major disappointing moment for me to be enjoying a movie or TV show, really getting into, only to run smack dab into something so glaringly wrong that's it's impossible to ignore, and thus have the rest of the experience soured every time that thing comes into view. I'm refering to the current series The River, and the brain-burningly dreadful accent of the Latino boatman. It makes me cringe and headdesk at the same time. Every time he opens his mouth I think, "Is it really so hard to find an actor who can actually speak Spanish in Los Angeles, for gods' sakes?" Yes, he's clearly Latin, but a Spanish-speaker he ain't, not by a mile. Funny thing, though: his daughter's Spanish is just fine, which goes to show you how thorough their casting department is. Her grammar is a bit suspect, but that might just be the script. (If the subtitles are anything to go by, it's pretty badly handled. At least half of the sentences she utters are subtitled wrong, some of them very wrong. ARGH.) But the guy - oh man, it gets under my skin every time he says something. And it's too bad, because the actor's quite good; I've seen him elsewhere. But like Al Pacino, he just shouldn't try to speak Spanish. It just embarrasses everybody.
ARGH.
That is all I have to say. - Ten Bears
It's a major disappointing moment for me to be enjoying a movie or TV show, really getting into, only to run smack dab into something so glaringly wrong that's it's impossible to ignore, and thus have the rest of the experience soured every time that thing comes into view. I'm refering to the current series The River, and the brain-burningly dreadful accent of the Latino boatman. It makes me cringe and headdesk at the same time. Every time he opens his mouth I think, "Is it really so hard to find an actor who can actually speak Spanish in Los Angeles, for gods' sakes?" Yes, he's clearly Latin, but a Spanish-speaker he ain't, not by a mile. Funny thing, though: his daughter's Spanish is just fine, which goes to show you how thorough their casting department is. Her grammar is a bit suspect, but that might just be the script. (If the subtitles are anything to go by, it's pretty badly handled. At least half of the sentences she utters are subtitled wrong, some of them very wrong. ARGH.) But the guy - oh man, it gets under my skin every time he says something. And it's too bad, because the actor's quite good; I've seen him elsewhere. But like Al Pacino, he just shouldn't try to speak Spanish. It just embarrasses everybody.
ARGH.
That is all I have to say. - Ten Bears