Why is everyone in Justine's family speaking with an English accent but her. That drives me up a wall and takes me out of the movie because it doesn't make sense. Either have everyone be American or English but making her the only one with an American accent is a blatant standout.
shareI think Von Trier wanted Justine to stand out from everyone. Even within her own family. Or she was raised abroad most of her life.
shareThat and/or she has as the youngest become americanised. It's a british family living in America-tat's why they have american husbands and staff.
shareOf course anyone who knows about American Geography knows there is no place like this in America. But it's nice to dream, ehh.
I see it as a sell out from the director (don't get me wrong, I'm still a huge fan of Lars) using American actors in his movies to sell more tickets. Let's be honest, that's what it is.
There is zero sellout from LVT about the accents. It's a constant throughout his career that he does not care about accents at all. In Dogville he refused to pay for someone to alter Paul Bettanys british accent for example. Why he feels that way, I don't know, but I have the feeling he thinks it's an irrelevant detail and that the audience should be able to appreciate the film regardless of such "imperfections".
Paul Bettany spoke with an American accent in Dogville.
shareFamilies which have lived in more than one country often have different accents from one another. My husband and his family grew up in N. Ireland, and moved to Canada when the three children were teenagers. The oldest child also lived in Canada up until the age of six. They all have different accents because they all had different amounts of time in each country, and different influences. And that's only siblings raised together who spoke the same language in each country and at home. The differences could be even greater if they'd been raised apart, gone away to school, spoke other languages, et cetera.
Plus, I think it also sets her apart from everyone else, which it might be meant to do.