So a Russian spy "family" that had years of training (the adults at least) and spent years undercover in the US with perfect American accents choose between speaking in Russian and English with a Russian accent...OK. Makes no sense.
shareIt’s laughable
shareThis is done for such obvious reasons and is hardly unique to this movie.
If Schindler's List gets away with it, Black Widow certainly does too.
I know why it's done. Because Americans are lazy and don't like subtitles/can't read.
shareYeah, and the accent?
shareIt's an unnecessary detail that wouldn't provide anything to the movie. For what, a sense of realism? This movie requires the suspension of disbelief in so many other ways already. I don't see how adding subtitles would improve the film.
While it is certainly true that the majority of Americans don't like subtitles, that is obviously not the reason why the characters played by Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour and Rachel Weisz don't speak Russian to each other, even though they are all Russians - it's because it's an American movie with English-speaking movie stars, not a Russian movie with Russian actors. It would be absurd to make the stars of the movie speak Russian (with what would certainly be poor accents) just for the benefit of authenticity, and it would be even more absurd to hire unknown Russian actors for all the main parts.
Good catch. Didn't even occur to me.
shareUh, they spoke in normal English when they were in Ohio.
There's no reason for them to do so afterwards.
Marvel has always been inconsistent with accents
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