Every other high profile movie these days seems to be directed by a non-native speaker and more and more movies are casting non-native speakers in high profile roles. A good example would be Bill Skarsgard in It. Another example before that is Christoph Waltz. Just today, I read of Alexander Skarsgard being cast in a high profile role in the latest The Stand adaptation.
I have always been critical of Waltz as his performances are stilted as fuck and irritating to me, which I think is because he's a foreigner speaking English in an English language movie, and it shows.
Same with Skarsgard in It. First of all there is little acting required in that role as CGI does most of the work for him, but what acting is required is, again, stilted sounding and irritating to me. He just sounds weird, with none of the levity or charisma brought to the role by Tim Curry.
It's the same with directors. I just feel they bring a different expertise from coming up in different countries with different artistic sensibilities and I don't think it translates to the movie culture I'm familiar and comfortable with.
I hope I've explained myself well. I know it's likely to be a divisive opinion, but it's just not a trend I'm a fan of. And I would characterise it as a current trend, much like the trend of adapting King movies, or "rebooting" movies, or superhero movies, or ignoring source material by casting actors based on sociopolitical or sociocultural trends [the latest being the groundswell of support behind casting a female James Bond].
Submitted September 13, 2019 at 04:56AM by LovedYouCyanide https://ift.tt/2ZUJDwE