I recently re-discovered this movie on the (hopefully uncut) DVD (I lost the tapes I made from the original broadcast years ago)and as I'm watching it now, I notice something I never did before.
I think they dubbed Isabella Rosellini's voice over the girl playing Young Nimue's. Anybody know whether this is true?
I've heard it said several times, although I'm not 100% sure. She does look as though her voice is being dubbed.
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Yeah they did... and it was probably one of the worst decisions made in an entirely brilliant movie.
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I think they did too. It sounds just like her and I doubt they would make the girl who played her fake Rosellini's accent....Probably a last minute editing decision, and not necessarily a good one. However, maybe the girl's voice was so different that it would have been just another thing for us fans to nitpick about, lol.
shareI thought her voice was kind of creepy...
But I'm just being immature about it, I suppose.
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yes, they dubbed it, because the young Nimue had a Scandanavian accent that Isabella didn't have. If you watch the commentary, the director appologizes for it
shareI was going to say yes but I can't stand Nimue voice at all especially when she was younger because the voice was so low for a young girl.
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Isabella Rosselini does have a Scandinavian accent though for some reason...maybe her mother (Ingrid Bergman in case anyone can't tell) taught her English?
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Yeah they dubbed her voice over the real actors voice, at least according to imdb's trivia page for this movie. I think it's silly, I believe that the actress playing young Nimue could have pulled that accent off. But I love this movie despite that.
shareI love this movie. it never bothered me that the voice was the same the all way through for both actresses paying young and older nimue.
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Swedish accents are Scandinavian accents as they are spoken by speakers of the North Germanic/Scandinavian dialect continuum of mutual inteligable languages closer than many dialects of other languages (for instance Chinese dialects, or to use a closer example German ones). Isabella Rosellini sounds a lot like her mother Ingrid Bergman, more so than she sounds like an Italian or French woman (she grew up mostly in France) though maybe many aren't familiar with Ingrid Bergman now... she looks a lot like her daughter as well.
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That dubbing was a horrid decision. I love the movie all the same but it's beyond me why they opted for it.
And Isabella Rosellini and Ingrid Bergman don't simply look alike, she is the spitting image of her mother.
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Actually, I like it that way, & who is to say that young girls can't have a low voice?!!!
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