Gladiator II

[AzogtheDefiler]

This may come as a shock...

... but they also didn't speak English, in Ancient Rome.

I am curious what accent you think Denzel Washington should use when playing a native Latin speaker who is speaking English in Ancient Rome, haha

Latin accent?

Latinx

You’re a defect

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

Your username is Sherlock Holmes.

I expect you to post using the lexicon of British English from now on.

Don't let me catch you slippin'

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Latinx

You’re a defect

What are you crying about now?

Latinx?

What?

You get in your mangina feels like this every few months. Get over it already.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Two expert voice impersonators, a snippet

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Denzel Washington needs lessons from these two, a masterclass:

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

What are you crying about now?

Latinx?

What?

You get in your mangina feels like this every few months. Get over it already.

It was a joke. Defect.

Get a sense of humor.

 

[blackhawk]

Some actors are better at doing accents than others in some movies that matters more than others. I feel safe in saying most people who go to see gladiator are going for the fight scenes not the accents.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Some actors are better at doing accents than others in some movies that matters more than others. I feel safe in saying most people who go to see gladiator are going for the fight scenes not the accents.

Perhaps, I don't know, the fight scenes are part of it but if that's all it really is, then that's more reason to give it a miss.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

My position on this can be reduced to a very simple point: I do not want to see or hear anything that alludes to modern civilization, a movie about ancient Rome should NOT expose the viewer to things that pertain to the modern world, on that basis Washington's New York accent is a fail and the director has made a huge error of judgement here.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

My position on this can be reduced to a very simple point: I do not want to see or hear anything that alludes to modern civilization, a movie about ancient Rome should NOT expose the viewer to things that pertain to the modern world, on that basis Washington's New York accent is a fail and the director has made a huge error of judgement here.

The English language was not even invented yet, when that movie took place.

 

[struth]

The accents being English (and there are many) is historically valid for theatre about ancient Rome presented to an English speaking audience because those accents existed at that time in history.

A New York accent is a very recent thing and did not exist two thousand years ago.

They spoke Latin in Rome. Not English

Shakespeare might of screwed your thoughts up when he wrote Caesar

 

[blackhawk]

Perhaps, I don't know, the fight scenes are part of it but if that's all it really is, then that's more reason to give it a miss.

The way I look at is this a Hollywood production not historical documentary in the previews they have a scene of someone riding a rhino in one of the gladiator battles. I am not a rhino expert, but it seems highly unlikely to me you could tame a rhino and ride it like horse.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Me neither until this one.

Well selecting New York is about as unauthentic as one can get.

Why? he's a fake roman wearing a fake costume about a fake story so why not a fake accent? This is what actors do, they fake it, they fake other people the accent is just a part of the persona and English and its many accents all existed two thousand years ago, New York accents did not, I bet you'd love it too if he pulled out a shotgun or chewed gum or wore a Yankees baseball cap.

Would none of that matter either?

How about a new spaghetti western with the guy speaking like a rapper?

Well a couple of decades ago we had Sean Connery as a Bedouin Sheik with a Scots brogue and a Soviet submarine commander with a Scots brogue as well. ( Wind and the Lion and Hunt for Red October).

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Idiot, I was decrying his accent inabilities not his skin color - asshole, take reading lessons dingbat.

You trashy ass racist are all the same, when called out on your racism you want to claim you were talking about something else. What other fking movie have you started a thread on?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

They spoke Latin in Rome. Not English

Yes.

Shakespeare might of screwed your thoughts up when he wrote Caesar

Shakespeare spoke English and Latin.

The New York accent didn't exist two thousand years ago because the United States didn't exist two thousands years ago. English did exist two thousand years ago and there were diverse accents there two thousand years ago but a New York accent wasn't one of them.

As I said, any movie set in antiquity should not contain things that pertain to modern civilization, it's a fail in my opinion if a movie like this were to have baseball caps, bubble gum, cigarettes, guns and yes New York or any other modern accent.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You trashy ass racist are all the same, when called out on your racism you want to claim you were talking about something else. What other fking movie have you started a thread on?

Learn what racism is before you try to start a conversation with me about racism you dingbat.

 

[JLW]

I’d like to know why there are no or few Italians in a movie set in Rome? The outrage!!!

Of course if they were to give the Romans an accent it should be Italian as Vulgar Latin supposedly sounded like Italian.

 

[elektra]

I was quite looking forward to this but on discovering that Denzel Washington's accent in the movie is his native New York accent, I decided I'm never going to watch this film. I expect more from a fil maker like Ridley Scott and this is just too much, a joke, he's failed as a director.

Actors who can't do accents shouldn't be used in such movies, it's also mainly an American weakness, many current British actors do excellent US accents but few US movie actors can do that, they're just sloppy.

I know, they should of done the movie in the Latin Language as well, with the correct historical dialect

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Learn what racism is before you try to start a conversation with me about racism you dingbat.

Idiot, I am a black man in my 60s pretty damn sure I know what it is.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Once again I haven't used terms like "correct" or "authentic" here, all I've said is that a movie set two thousand years ago should not contain things from the modern world and that includes a New York accent just as much as modern clothes or weapons and so on.

If a New York accent is fine then why not a 9mm semi auto too? Of course not, so why use a New York accent? what reason is there other than Ridley wanted Denzel and Denzel has no accent skills?

Anyway here's another accent lesson for Denzel: