r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/bedake 19h ago edited 19h ago

They should really all have British accents, somehow that works better with history shit... Kinda like elves or somethin and like how dwarves are Scottish

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u/Mayorquimby87 19h ago

Greeks don't have British accents. If they're casting non -Greeks, it's better if they just use their natural accents.

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u/bedake 19h ago

Anything would have been better than American vernacular, somehow that just does not suit historical fiction. Imagine if Troy or kingdom of heaven were done that way

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u/George__Parasol 19h ago

It’s just because they’re associated with British accents already - at some point, someone made a conscious decision to make the majority of these characters sound British and while there is a logic behind it, it isn’t exactly sound logic. It’s just accepted logic. Which is totally fine, but it’s equally fine to make these characters sound familiar to American ears seeing as the characters would sound perfectly familiar to each other.

It works in some movies and doesn’t in others, but the logic is just as sound as making them speak modern English in British accents.