Why cant foreigners make Films in English ?

I did not mean the Box office intake...wouldn't an english release helped get better recognition?
Wouldn't an English release get the actor who played Hitler a sure shot oscar nomination?





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A nazi speaking german is the most evil thing ever created by man. The language is very harsh sounding & doesn't flow like french or italian.

" If it weren't for our soldiers Saddam hussien would have started a third world war"


LOL..they surely scared sh*t out of you just by putting that stupid "security threat" indicator on your TV screen;)Or did you manage to find WMD somewhere? Educate yourself a bit- use google: Iraq before and after the "liberation" and guess what the bigger threat is. Oh, and don't forget Afganistan...

Poor American soldiers...



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Anyone who would rather hear Hitler rant in English instead of his native German would probably have very little interest in this type of film in the first place.

I believe there is a new dumberer and dumbererer movie this summer, and it's in English. Sounds right up your alley transformer boy, go get in line right now!

There are 300 million people in America. There are more than a billion people in China and about that many in India. There are also a lot more Russians than Americans So if American films really want the largest box office possible our films should be either in Chinese, Hindi or Russian and not English, by your logic.


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Actually, I'm American...but I like to think that I do have a pretty good handle on English.

So take your "blah blah blah" about foreigners elsewhere, okay? Oh, and the Russians toppled Nazi Germany...and the Hussein thing is so laughable, I won't even touch it. haha

Getting to the crux of the actual ISSUE, no, I don't think that Ganz's performance as Hitler would've gotten better recognition had he played it in English, because...HE'S PLAYING HITLER. What's amazing about the performance is how unbelievably similar it is to the real Hitler. Which it really wouldn't be nearly so much if he were speaking ENGLISH, now would it? No...because Hitler spoke GERMAN. Just like in the movie. Get it yet? Making him speak English would rob his brilliant performance of much of its authenticity, and therefore, it wouldn't be nearly AS brilliant.

And where the hell have you been? This movie WAS nominated for an Oscar.

And I have to ask, why the hell should German filmmaker be forced to make films in English? This is like saying that American filmmakers should make their movies in Chinese. Guess what? All over the world, people watch SUBTITLED American movies. Why is it that the Europeans and Asians don't have a problem with watching an English-language film in English, but so many Americans turn up their noses at anything that isn't in English? As an American, myself, I find that absolutely ludicrous...not to mention arrogant. The English language is a comparatively young one. Not everyone in the world speaks it, nor should they have to. Deal with it and move on.

This film is marvelous...and being one of the few GERMAN-LANGUAGE films about Nazi Germany makes it all the better. While I was watching it, I felt like I was getting a glimpse into Hitler's bunker, as it really was. Wouldn't have felt that way had everyone been speaking English. Bruno Ganz was amazing, as was the supporting cast, and considering the subject matter, the fact that they were speaking German was a pro, not a con. And even if this film wasn't about well-known German historical figures, the very idea that foreign filmmakers should have to make their films in English is idiotic and jingoistic, to say the least.

"Every where I go I see...americans are rude,ignorant,fat slobs who do not care about the world."

Wonder why that is? Have you read your own posts? It's funny tho, cause everywhere I go, I see the same hoes...hmmm.

Sadly you are right about the sales being higher if the film were in English. But I'm not sure that's something to celebrate. It's a sign of the ignorance of the American audience as a whole (and to a larger extent, the audience of the Anglophone world...) It just shows that people put convenience over historical accuracy or the integrity of the art, and that people don't want to think while being entertained (which is ok sometimes, but it shouldn't be the exclusive trait of moviegoers...)

And...

"If it weren't for our brave soldiers,the world would be a nazi haven today
If it weren't for our soldiers Saddam hussien would have started a third world war
so show some respect to those brave souls."

Hahahaha. Yeah, Saddam was so dangerous with his "WMDs" and America stopped the Nazis all alone. Let's ask the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have died since the war began if America has made their lives better...oh wait.

Don't worry too much about people bashing the US. They might scream louder at the moment, thus pretending to be the majority. But rest assured, that there is a quiet majority of people who indeed look up to what the USA stands for and what they owe them. They might not all speak up just yet. But we (Europeans) slowly start to realize, that it is time to emancipate ourselves from the lies and propaganda, that we are fed day after day, denouncing western culture and western values. And this is for certain: no country represents these values as much as the US does.

So take heart and be proud.

If it weren't for our soldiers Saddam hussien would have started a third world war

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Dude I'm going to start following you around, you've had me in stitches. You are priceless my friend, keep up the good work.

"If it weren't for our soldiers Saddam hussien would have started a third world war "

You mean with his *beep* army or his fictional cache of WMDs?

(first of: english = not first language, so appologies for the misspellings etc.)

Oh come ooooon. Not the "support the american soldiers-rant" again.

First of all, it's got nothing to do with the toppic.

Second, as far as I know, during the war of liberation against the english, USA received some help from the french. Where is your everlasting gratuity towards them? You never fail to remind them, that they should kiss your feet for WW2.

Third: in english, this movie had probably never been as great as it is. Just look at Das Boot. Amazing movie in german, but saw it once on TV with american/english dubbing, and it ruined everything.

Fourth: We don't think americans to be rude,ignorant,fat slobs EXCEPT if they make bulls**t statements like yours.

So stop assuming that you are the center/leaders/rulers of the world and the rest of the world will buy you beer at the nearest bar, and love you for being the nice people you are 99% of the time.

Ronager - you're an idiot.

1) It's a german film. So it's in german. Is that really so hard to grasp?

2) Erm... The Soviets killed 80% of all german soldiers killed in WWII and Britain had easily as big a part as the americans did. Stop insulting the lives of the brave British and Russian soldiers you sick little man.

Hussein starting a third world war. Wow. You really are an indoctrinated xenophobe aren't you?

Show some respect for *our* brave soldiers.

People simply took my appeal in a wrong way.What I meant to say was had this film been made in english,it would have been seen by more people thus higher box office intake and please dont give me those garbage remarks about BO being nothing important.

Ok, I wont even answer the statements about the US soldiers, because this isnt a political board.

If more movies were made in the languages they should have been, German people talking in German, Italians talking Italian, Spanish speaking Spanish, Swedes speaking Swedish and so on, maybe the US audience wouldnt shun this movie in the first place.
For a bad trend to break, someone has to take the first steps, and it has been taken multiple times, but it always slides back unfortunately because the audience is too used to seeing movies where they only speak english instead of the language they should have spoken from the start.

In sweden (Scandinavia even) we do not dub anything, we only sub it (except for childrens cartoon and such which is dubbed). This means that we are so much more used to hearing different languages in our movies, and have no problem at all watching it. Personally I believe that is the model that should be used all over the world. If not, you'll get too used to one single language and get disturbed so mucht hat the movie gets ruined because of the language.


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Man you have to be a troll. noone could be that dumb.
Who arked the Yanks to come into the European theatre in ww2?
Why didnt they stay home and mind their own business, or stay in the pacific.

Saddam hussein? Because the iraq war was a perfectly thought out war that went well... lol. those wmd turn up yet?..

Your brave soldiers?
If it wasnt for brave Europeans the USA wouldnt exist.... YOU ARE BASICALLY EUROPEAN.

Eat the Neocons.