1--there were clues before the wedding waltz
2--Tom and Isobel both had no Australian accents--strange when they both were supposed to be middle to lower class...even if her father was a teacher and she, as well, there is really little likelihood that in normal history, they would have had a more polished, neutral speech pattern...
I imagine that was a deliberate choice on producers to make the film more appealing/reachable to the world in general since they were in so many scenes w/o others...
Liberating the language/accent from specific region opens up the connectivity psychologically for so many fil goers who might "hate" a foreign film...yes, I know that sounds illogical when Vikander and Fassbinder are not American and the greater market is the US release any way...but just my opinion...Fassbinder can certainly do an accent...as "Inglorius Basterds" illustrates...
I haven't heard Vikander do any English language dialogue in anything but "plain" American...
3--Jack Thompson, the supply boat captain, and Bryan Brown, the wealthy landowner who was Lucy Grace's grandfather, both kept their normal Aussie accents and frankly were about the only ones who did sound local...
"That's the beauty of argument, Joey...if you argue correctly, you are never wrong...",
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