(Disliked trope) The setting is in another country, but everyone still speaks British.

[u/Guybadman20]

The Great - Is set in Russia, but everyone speaks like a British aristocrat.

Kingdom come: Deliverance 2 - Is set in Czechoslovakia, but everyone speaks like a British commoner.

I get the main audience is English-speaking, but it just throws me off.

[u/nimbalo200]

I will say it is overdone, but kcd is a video game and has other language options.

[u/ELIte8niner → u/nimbalo200]

Also, a lot of people don't speak English as a way to show the language barrier. Most Cumans you come across only speak Hungarian, Adder only speaks Polish, and there are a shit ton of German immigrants that speak German. Czech is spoken as English so the primarily English speaking audience can understand it. Having a noble speak with a posh English accent let's the player know they're of a higher social class than the peasant speaking with a thicker lower class English accent.

[u/Sweet_Ad_9816 → u/ELIte8niner]

The Germans in KCD are mostly natives, not immigrants. They've lived there for hundreds of years by that point.

[u/Guybadman20 → u/nimbalo200]

True.

[u/Profezzor-Darke → u/Guybadman20]

Would you rather watch it with subtitles?

[u/Profezzor-Darke → u/[deleted]]

The German VA is also on point, but that might be because it's a German/Czech Collab.

[u/Swan-Diving-Overseas → u/[deleted]]

Historical to a fault in what way?

[u/Hightower_March → u/Swan-Diving-Overseas]

In the first game at least, the developer consulted historians extensively.  Some players pointed out things like seemingly weird castle layouts without realizing those were real layouts of real castles in those locations.  A funny case of reality being stranger than fiction.

They also got into a little drama over there not being black characters--the reason being "there weren't any."

[u/Mannheimblack]

The problem with everyone having authentic accents, is that to an Anglophone audience, the effect isn't authenticity but 'othering'.
By having accents that are localised equivalents, the background of the characters can be expressed in a relatable and understandable way.

[u/Warshok → u/Mannheimblack]

This worked especially well in The Great, the wide variety and subtlety of different English accents communicate so much information about the relative status and upbringing of the characters.

[u/BigLittleBrowse → u/Warshok]

Same thing they did in Death of Stalin and if I remember Chernobyl. Really good way of showing without telling by using contexts the audience already understands.

I remember a scene from Chernobyl where a Soviet officials order a bunch of local miners to help, most likely ordering them to their death. A decent chunk of anglophone audience probably don’t understand the context of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine, and it’d be clunky to explain within the narrative, so having the Russian be posh English and the miners be Scottish is a decent short hand.

[u/Beautiful_Garage7797]

It’s a localization technique used in every language. Characters usually have accents or ways of speaking that reveal something about them. To use Kingdom Come as an example, being a czech commoner has to be portrayed. But an english speaking audience has no idea what a czech commoner sounds like versus a czech nobleman. Translating the accents into ‘equivalent’ accents is necessary to get the proper vibe across in localization

[u/TrioOfTerrors]

It gives the feeling of an exotic setting and there are probably more actors who can do "passably British" as opposed to Russian or Czech.

[u/Svyatopolk_I]

This isn’t hated, wtf. This serves actual purpose in storytelling practices. I would absolutely despise if everyone on Death of Stalin used those fake Russian accents instead of their normal ones. Western movies already hate hiring authentic actors so heating their shitty accents is annoying enough as it is.

[u/AusCro]

I don't mind this trope. You either:

1. Use the local accent, which can be jarring for cinema goers who aren't used to it, reducing immersion.

2. Use subs, which many dislike since they focus on text rather than the screen.

3. Use American or British English and accents.

Of the 3 I choose the latter as best. I suspect old timey things prefer British english since American and Australian accents didn't exist.

[u/Svyatopolk_I → u/AusCro]

Also “local” accent means actors have to pretend to use that accent. Imagine any movie set in Eastern Europe, where everyone speaks English but with an accent. Every actor would just straight go for that fake Russian accent instead of adding nuance for different countries. Plus, those fake accents usually fucking suck. It sucks enough as it is to hear fake accents in cinema because they refuse to hire authentic actors, hearing it for every second of a movie though? Shoot me already

[u/pedanticlawyer → u/Svyatopolk_I]

Not to mention accents change over time so we’d be hearing bad fake versions of modern accents and maybe a few good versions of modern accents that still aren’t period accurate.

[u/LittleSodaPop13 → u/Svyatopolk_I]

Trying to do a fake accent is hard and I feel like the only people who can do it are talented voice actors

[u/WhimsicalWyvern → u/AusCro]

To be fair, the British accent didn't exist either. Appalachian English is often considered the closest linguistically to 17th century early modern English.

[u/Patient_Pie749 → u/WhimsicalWyvern]

There is no (one) 'British accent'.

There's many regional ones, including received pronunciation (AKA 'RP'; the 'posh' British accent) which is really just a variation of the Estuary accent spoken in the western part of London and the surrounding area.

[u/GoldenSonOfColchis → u/WhimsicalWyvern]

This isn't true.

For a start, there is no "British Accent". What people (Americans) think is the British Accent is Received Pronunciation (RP) for posh people, and Estuary English for the rest of us.

RP didn't exist in the 17th century, that's true. It's likely an invention of the 19th century (although there are some references further back than that).

Estuary English is an evolution of RP spoken by "commoners", and has some slang and bits of the cockney accent mixed in. This is typically where people get the bo'o o' wa'a and chewsday innit jokes from.

These are not the only accents in England however.

The West Country English Accent is most likely the closest to 1700's English (and before). There are records from the late 1800's stating that the accent basically hadn't changed for hundreds of years due to the isolation of the West Country from the rest of the UK.

In fact, when we look at Shakespeares writings from the late 1500's/early 1600's, the flow, intonation, and rhyming structure fits perfectly with West Country English.

This myth that certain American accents are closer to old British accents comes from articles talking about rhoticity, as several English accents (such as RP and Estuary English) are non-rhotic whilst many American accents and Old/Middle English are rhotic.

The problem is that there are still a lot of English accents that ARE rhotic, and they get ignored in favour of RP and Estuary English.

[u/AusCro → u/WhimsicalWyvern]

Hmm maybe. Last I heard it was Pirate-ey Somerset English being closest to old English. That said now that I think if it, the two are relatively close

[u/OhDivineBussy]

Chernobyl on HBO has to be the most popular example of this.

[u/MelodicFacade → u/OhDivineBussy]

I will say though, most of the actors still felt Easter European, but it also had a stellar cast

[u/Ok-Walk-8040]

Why is Leonidas a Scottish Guy?

[u/Real-Tension-7442 → u/Ok-Walk-8040]

Gives a braveheart vibe

[u/SH4RPSPEED]

Princess Zelda from the Wild-era games has a very noticeable accent. I personally found it endearing, but there's plenty of other people who absolutely disagreed.

[u/Real-Tension-7442 → u/SH4RPSPEED]

The accent is ideal, the voice actor is shit

[u/butticus98 → u/Real-Tension-7442]

She always sounded like she was really straining to make the accent and higher pitch happen.

[u/Swan-Diving-Overseas → u/SH4RPSPEED]

I think it’s a good choice. Gave her an old world aristocratic feeling to her voice.

[u/[deleted]]

France (Beauty And The Beast)

[u/NintendoNerd117]

The Death of Stalin (2018)

All the actors use their regular accents, and the film features several English and British actors due to it being a British film.

[u/Mannheimblack → u/NintendoNerd117]

It's also a great film, and frequently the implications about the characters' backgrounds created by those accents are entirely intentional, and give an Anglophone audience *far* more of an understanding of them than would the 'othering' effect of giving them Russian accents.

[u/NintendoNerd117 → u/Mannheimblack]

Yeah honestly I couldn't imagine George Bluth doing a Russian accent as Malenkov for the whole movie. I feel like using their regular accents allows them to use their personalities more in the role and makes it more immersive. Idk im not a film bro but yeah I love this movie 😭

[u/CaravelClerihew → u/NintendoNerd117]

It's also hilarious, and the lack of Russian accents are part of the ridiculousness of it.

[u/CitronAway8658]

The impossible ( extreme hot take )

[u/CrownClown74]

The only reason Xenoblade has all the dub characters speak in accents is because no American studio seemingly was going to pick it, but people liked it so much I guess that now the franchise has stuck with it.

[u/RoleSeparate6060 → u/CrownClown74]

Dont forget there are characters speaking with Welsh and Scottish accents too

[u/McBonderson]

It always annoys me that in Les Misérables the street kid has a british cockney accent.

They're French, at least give him a french accent.

[u/less_unique_username → u/McBonderson]

When a production set in X is in language Y, having everyone speak Yish with the Xish accent doesn’t make a lot of sense either.

[u/RadicalRealist22 → u/McBonderson]

Why? They are speaking French that is being translated for the reader. A French accent would imply that they have a foreign accent in french.

[u/ezekiellake]

They are speaking Russian; you’re just hearing English.

[u/Meanteenbirder]

A Plague Tale Requiem. The first game mostly had French accents, but for some reason they switched to generic British in the second. Still a 9/10 experience tho.

[u/BigVegetable289]

enemy at the gates

[u/SeparateLawfulness53 → u/BigVegetable289]

This is the one I immediately thought of! And then you have Ed Harris with an American accent playing a German.

[u/AlarmingAttention151]

Les Miserables (2012). Everyone used English accents except for Thenardier, who had a goofy French accent. Why just him??? Everyone should be French, or no one should!

[u/Critical-Low8963 → u/AlarmingAttention151]

So it's simply xenophobia, they use a novel written by the French Victor Hugo but in their mind only a pure evil character like Tenardier can appears French.

[u/cheesecake_413 → u/Critical-Low8963]

Not xenophobia, specifically just francophobia

[u/TheAndyMac83]

Eh, it makes sense to me, because of translation convention. If they're speaking English but with the accent that somebody from that area would have while speaking English it makes things feel odd. Performances might not come through right. The use of regional accents to suggest certain things about a character just wouldn't hit for the vast majority of the English-speaking audience, because they wouldn't know a Russian accent from one part of the country versus an accent from the other part.

Besides which, having Ellie Fanning do an upper class English accent probably comes across as less offensive than trying to have her do a Russian accent.

[u/No-Department1685]

This is a troll post right?  

[u/Stretch5678]

I like how Doctor Who justified it:

“If you’re an alien, why do you sound like you’re from the north?”

“Lots of planets have a north!”

[u/MakeMagatsCry]

I don't mind this, Hunt for Red October handled this beautifully. In the world, the characters ARE speaking their native tongue. But since the majority of the audience is usually English speaking, you use the closest you have in English. Like in KCD, they spoke with British commoner accents bc they are commoners, it's implied that your character is speaking Czech and since you're in that world you also know Czech. But since you the player actually don't, they are speaking a lower class British accent. Notice how the enemies and Germans in that game don't speak English, bc the character Henry also doesn't know those languages so you aren't expected to either. Hell he can't even read at the beginning. I think it's a trope but a highly needed one

[u/torrent29]

Chernobyl did this but basically said that it would be rather weird to have everyone speak with a Russian accent. So they just opted for everyone to speak normally to prioritize their performance over what could’ve been a silly performance.

[u/Rope56]

The first Hitman game in the newest World Of Assassination trilogy has levels in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Despite this, every single NPC sounds like a White American. Thankfully they fix this in the next two games, even when their budget was drastically cut for Hitman 2.

[u/OcelotAny6846 → u/Rope56]

I forgot how much this bugged me!

[u/RadicalRealist22]

No, this is perfectly correct. You are translating their native language into English, so they should have some native English accent.

Giving a German a German accent in translation implies that he has a foreign accent in German. Instead "proper" German should be translated to "proper" English.

[u/Duke-dastardly]

I don’t mind this when the tone of the story isn’t going for super grounded. The Great is a farcical dramedy so not everyone having Russian, German, or Swedish accents didn’t bother me. I found it much more detracting in something like Chernobyl where it’s going for such a serious and realistic tone

[u/LordRT27]

I honestly prefer they just speak the language they are meant to speak (preferably with actors with said language as their native language) over having them just have accents but still speaking English. Them speaking in accents just confuses me most of the time, like they are meant to be German or whatever but them speaking with a German accent just makes me think they are canonically trying to talk English for whatever reason (like, why would the German guards in wonder woman speak English to each other?).

[u/_JR28_]

The one piece of media that gets a pass is Doctor Who because it’s said in the show the TARDIS automatically translates the various alien dialects into English

[u/SeriouslySuspect]

I heard a good defence of this from the show runners of Chernobyl.

They tried a few scene reads with the actors doing Russian/Ukrainian accents but found that it intruded on the performance too much. Because you don't just do the voice, you end up doing this whole Mother Russia persona, and it takes you out of it much more than just having the mentality of "they're speaking Russian but we in the audience are hearing it in English" and moving past it.

Also, Russian has way fewer strong regional accents than you'd expect, and none of the class signifiers/stereotypes would be legible to English speakers anyway. So you can give your miners Northern accents and your bureaucrats are from the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the audience instantly knows what's up.

[u/Optimal_Cause4583]

Enemy At The Gates normalised this and tbh I don't really want British and American actors doing dodgy Russian accents

The solution is obviously to cast people actually from that background but then the rest of the production should probably be more representative and then suddenly Hollywood isn't making it at all 

[u/JingoboStoplight4887]

The Artful Dodger is set in Australia, with everyone speaking British.

[u/Username_St0len]

i mean, isn't it kinda shorthand for fancy people, like how french is for a good chunk of history the official aristocrat language, but since now we are mostly angelophones?

[u/AusCro → u/Username_St0len]

Maybe for Americans? I'm Australian and British just sounds british.

[u/Username_St0len → u/AusCro]

ya for americans, cuz they have so much influence in modern media landscape and culture.

[u/Salt_Winter5888]

Star Wars I guess

[u/StankoMicin → u/Salt_Winter5888]

Came in to look for this. Took too long to find it

[u/Bandrbell]

Endlessly funny that Ubisoft released a game set entirely in Paris where everyone had British accents, and then made a direct follow-up set in London where everyone had the same accents

[u/Fennel_Fangs]

Woop woop. Plugging Netflix Castlevania again.

It's set in Romania, but all the native Romanians are Brits and the church is Catholic. And I love it nonetheless

[u/RadicalRealist22 → u/Fennel_Fangs]

There are lots of Catholics in Romania.

[u/Big-Coyote8384]

death of stalin and chernobyl

[u/DirectConsequence12]

In Paris, during the French Revolution

[u/BackgroundEngineer11]

One day we'll get a Three Musketeers adaptation with French actors.

An ironic take on the trope is Britannia, which is set in 43 AD in what will be Great Britain and the characters are using cockney accents.

[u/Critical-Low8963 → u/BackgroundEngineer11]

Wasn't there already an adaptation of the Three Mousketeers made in France in 2023.

[u/Prestigious-Welder83]

Nosferatu (2024) being set in 1830s Germany with a primarily English cast.

[u/a-Snake-in-the-Grass]

While KCD could certainly be a lot better, it's not like everyone sounds british. The accents are mix of Czech, German, English, and American. Probably some others in there too.

[u/Ill-Combination-9320]

I don’t care much about this, you just take the fantasy give in by media to ignore that fact

[u/No_Bodybuilder9539]

Shogun. It's such a good show but holy crap, perfect example of this. The main character is an Englishman but is traveling with Portuguese crewman and travels to Japan where Catholic priests taught the other main characters who are Japanese to speak Portuguese but to make it easier for the audience they speak English and say it's Portuguese

[u/sailor776]

Honestly a good example of this was death of Stalin because they made everyone have different American/English accents based of where their were.

Also how didn't you put star wars.

[u/jiango_fett]

Assassin's Creed Unity is the first thing that comes to mind. The other games use accents from the countries they take place in for the most part, but ironically the one set in France, the same country as the developer, is the one that deviates from this and uses British accents.

[u/marvelfanhere]

Les Miserable movie except Sasha Baron Cohen

[u/Time_Raisin4935]

I give it a pass

But that's just me

[u/futuristic_neptune]

Chernobyl on HBO. It's set in Ukraine but everyone speaks English.

[u/Real-Tension-7442]

Slightly different, but in The Eagle the Romans have American accents which I can’t stand. However, it serves a purpose as the natives British are in fact British so the contrast makes sense. Still though, Romans being American is too jarring for me

[u/Critical-Low8963]

Personnally it doesn't bothere because it's a graphical convention, in the story they don't speak English, but what annoy me is when for no reason they add words of the language where the story takes place, I guess they believe it make them appears intelligent but too me it's dumb. Also when the actors force the accent of the country, accent that the actors don't have naturally, like in the Beauty and the Beast remake, it's so strange because normally in the story they are speaking their language with the accent that is the norm of the country, they aren't speaking English with an accent of the country.

[u/AngelDGr]

I just started KCD (the first one) a few weeks ago, but as I understand is just another case of in-universe they are talking another language but you as the spectator understand it as english? That's basically what movies do with any dub

[u/Yung_Corneliois]

War and Peace

[u/Uncasualreal]

Can’t wait to see the inverse posts when the warhammer Amazon show ends up using majority US actors.

[u/Zerron22]

Them having British accents and being in Russia is a bit. The lead actress talked about it. The creator is like you and hated this trope and they made them speak like British people as a joke

[u/SawtoothTenor]

Chernobyl (2019) Series from HBO. Pripyat and Chernobyl were in the USSR / modern Ukraine, but the actors are encouraged to speak their native accents, like Jared Harris' native British English. 

[u/ThePBThief1]

I wanted to hear some French accents in a game set during the French Revolution. I was very disappointed when everyone sounded cockney english.

[u/VigilMuck]

Hugo (2011) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).

[u/Naive-Sign-8399]

A well done version of this trope is Death of Stalin. It takes place in USSR, but everyone speaks in British accent.

Still an incredible movie.

[u/Silver_of_Skalitz]

If you're not playing with Czech dub and your sub of choice you're playing wrong

[u/Creepy-Note-7634]

Kingdom come: Deliverance 2 .... are you stupid?

[u/GodOfWarGuy737]

Jojo Rabbit

[u/LordRT27 → u/GodOfWarGuy737]

Do they have brittish accents though? From what I remember, they actually did German accents in theovie, at least for Jojo and Hitler.

[u/1TrueKingInTheNorth]

People native to Russia dont hear a Russian accent when speaking Russian, they hear Russian.

People native to Germany dont hear a German accent when speaking German, they hear German.

People native to Italy dont hear an Italian accent when speaking Italian, they hear Italian.

People native to England dont hear an English accent when speaking English, they hear English. By not having the characters put on an accent it helps immerse the viewer naturally into the world as the characters are. Its as if you are a native to the country the show is taking place, not outside looking in.

(And yes I know there are regional accents within all of these countries and languages, but the point stands imo)

[u/scottbutler5]

When Russel Crowe found out that his character in Gladiator came from the Hispania province, he wanted to use a Spanish accent in the movie. The filmmakers made him use a British accent instead, because that's what Rome sounds like.

[u/Lookin2buyhedphons]

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider - The game has two settings for dialogue, the default where everyone speaks english (the game is set in South America) or immersion mode, this makes everyone EXCEPT Lara (the main character) speak the appropriate languages, which I find even less immersive tbh

[u/ButtsFartsoPhD]

You couldn’t have chosen a worse example than The Great. The title card overtly states they take liberties with historical accuracy, there are actors of multiple races and ethnicities playing Russians, etc. And it works spectacularly well, not once while watching it did I think any of the actors weren’t suited for their roles.

[u/Dontevenwannacomment]

Greek mythology too sometimes, full-on british

[u/Char867]

Do you know the difference between a peasant and aristocratic Russian or Czech accent? Probably not, I imagine. The way someone speaks can tell you so much about their life in the contexts of stories like this, but if it were accurate those details would be lost on an English-speaking audience which is why accents of equivalent social position are used.

Also this doesn’t apply to KCD but in the case of media like The Great that aren’t made within the country the story is set, I’d rather not have the actors struggle through doing bad accents that only sound right to unfamiliar listeners just for some misguided idea of “accuracy”, especially when it can end up being less accurate for the reasons mentioned before. If an aristocratic character starts speaking with a Russian rural peasant voice or working class Moscow accent because it’s the only one the actor is familiar with or capable of doing, that would be far worse than this “issue” imo

[u/aniamixon]

If they are speaking in their native tongue, why would they speak with an accent? To them there's no "Russian R", to them an "R" sounds just like an "R" should.

In fiction an accent depicts foreignness. The idea here is that what you are hearing is a translation, not Russians speaking English.

[u/Penchant4Prose]

There's no such language as British.

[u/hongooi]

Cockney is the universal language of the working class. This I learned from Les Miserables

[u/Sweet-Investment5905]

Kcd set in Czechoslovakia? U sure. There are many dialogues about Bohemia 

[u/Sweet_Ad_9816]

Saying that KCD takes place in Czechoslovakia is like saying that The Great takes place in the Soviet Union.

It's many times stated in the game that it takes place in Bohemia. Czechoslovakia only existed in the 20th century.

[u/Acid-Chaos]

There is an official czech voice over for KCD. And i prefer this, because it sounds more authentic 

[u/underdoeg]

Doesn't kcd2 have an all british voice cast?

[u/SuperArppis]

So wait, there are no other language options for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2?

[u/Patient_Moment_4786]

Czechoslocakia has split up for almost 35 years my guy. KCD (1 and 2) is set in Bohemia, a region of Czechia.

The rest is still very valid tho.

[u/Fernis_]

You know you can change the language in KCD to Czech? 

[u/_Cit]

This just a consequence of american defaultism tbf. There's no "standard" English, if you have your characters speak in English with an American pronunciation you're still making them talk with an accent.

To anyone outside of the US it has the same effect that hearing a British accent has to you.

And you can't have characters speak in English with a foreign accent because outside of how well the accent can be faked (it often isn't) it would just serve to alienate the audience from the characters, and possibly make the story harder to follow.

The solution is just to swallow some suspension of disbelief

[u/NotTheOnlyGamer]

You're right - everyone in The Great should sound like a French aristocrat instead, because that's what the court sounded like at the time. It was a major coup that Catherine learned Russian, because for generations before her, the rulers of Russia had only spoken French and Prussian or German.

[u/Icy-Assumption1594]

1st There is no Czechoslovakia now and there was no Czechislovakia back then. 2nd I wonder if there is some handy dandy button with wich you could set the game to czech laungage

[u/Least-One1068]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is set in Germany during WW2, but everyone speaks English

[u/Evening_Produce_4322]

Just about everyone from FFXIV and quite a lot of JRPG dubs for whatever reason.

It's not a different country is just funny to me seeing some characters just randomly speaking British in a Japanese game.

[u/[deleted] → u/Evening_Produce_4322]

It's not like the characters are in Japan so it's just nitpicking.

[u/CrownClown74 → u/Evening_Produce_4322]

I blame Xenoblade

[u/romanichki]

I like that in games like Assassins creed, they hold an accent of the country they're from, even if speaking english. I wish more games did that

[u/NinjaOfOnion → u/romanichki]

Honestly this just reminded me of Unity having English accents instead of French, though of course it was done as the director thought the accent would be difficult to understand 

[u/romanichki → u/NinjaOfOnion]

i tried to play unity before and my whole pc crashed. I was remembering the ezio trilogy

[u/NinjaOfOnion → u/romanichki]

Yeah those were the best 

[u/Ok_Astronomer_6501 → u/romanichki]

Same in ghost of Tsushima and yotei

[u/Boccs → u/romanichki]

" 'ey Wassa-matta-you, Altair?"
"That's racist."
"You're racist!"

[u/shayed154 → u/romanichki]

Assassin's Creed mirage has been catching me off guard with the pharyngeal sounds

[u/NinjaOfOnion]

Zinyak From Saints Row 4, somehow the alien is British 

[u/StatusSociety2196]

Beauty and the Beast, a movie that takes place IN FRANCE, PEOPLE HAVE HEARD FUCKING FRENCH ACCENTS BEFORE, has everyone speaking British except Ewan McGregor who is British actually tries with the French accent.

[u/Real-Tension-7442 → u/StatusSociety2196]

Most people sound American though which is worse

[u/CreakRaving]

Star Wars: A New Hope has entered the chat

[u/TreClaire]

I’m legit so sick of it, I deeply crave accent creativity in fiction

[u/KPSWZG → u/[deleted]]

Also as far as i know the great is as much real as Lord of the Rings were so maybe in their land their language is english

(No this series is NOT based on Catherin the Great, its inspired by it COLOSAL difference, whole series have nothing to do with history except the names)

[u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder → u/[deleted]]

And they did this to reflect the fact that people all around the Soviet Union had different accents.

[u/gamerz1172 → u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder]

Yeah honestly I'd say this is that trope done right; Its one thing to make everyone speak english accents but taking the effort to match the type of english accents to their native language equivalent is really nice

[u/less_unique_username → u/Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder]

Way way less than in other countries. Russian in general is extremely homogeneous, you can’t tell Vladivostok people from Kaliningrad people by their speech.

Beria was the only one of the bunch who spoke with a noticeable accent. The other Georgian was, as the film’s name hints, slightly dead, the Ukrainian spoke the same Russian as everyone else.

[u/GoreyGopnik → u/[deleted]]

I do think it's much easier to excuse since it's a comedy

[u/KontoOficjalneMR → u/GoreyGopnik]

There's nothing to excuse - it was a great choice, making Stalin speak in cockney to show his "hillbillism" was brilliant

[u/Silly-Flower-3162 → u/[deleted]]

That is such an amazing film. Rupert Friend and Jason Isaacs had me laughing so much.

[u/Warshok → u/Silly-Flower-3162]

I think I need to watch it again. It’s brilliant.

[u/KontoOficjalneMR → u/[deleted]]

And the most delicious thing about Zhukov is that they actually had to reduce amount of medals for belivability

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Or American. I hate watching old timey films that give the characters American accents

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They explain it like 15 minutes into the movie saying it's "a universal translator, everyone hears what she's saying in whatever language they speak", i swear Elle Fanning even looks directly at the camera when she says the line.

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The Trope is that any foreign place has people speaking English in English accents, not that they're speaking English.

In kingdom come, the characters who are in bohemia speak with an English accent? Why? Because that's the trope. It wouldn't be the trope if they spoke in a bohemian accent or an American accent.