Comments on: A Dangerous Method — Sometimes a Cigar is a Cigar; At Others It’s a Giant Riding Crop http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/09/a-dangerous-method-sometime-a-cigar-is-a-cigar-at-others-its-a-giant-riding-crop/ Thoughts on Film Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Brandon http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/09/a-dangerous-method-sometime-a-cigar-is-a-cigar-at-others-its-a-giant-riding-crop/#comment-820 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:17:31 +0000 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=4406#comment-820 Fair point, but the complaint about inconsistency still stands. There are plenty of movies that are subtitled. However, Freud and Jung also wrote quite a bit in English — as did Spierlein– so to suggest that there would be a lack of authenticity is a bit inaccurate in itself.

]]> By: Ed http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/2012/09/a-dangerous-method-sometime-a-cigar-is-a-cigar-at-others-its-a-giant-riding-crop/#comment-819 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:42:00 +0000 http://www.moviesaboutgladiators.com/?p=4406#comment-819 I think you’re missing the point regarding the accents.
In real life these three people would undoubtedly have been speaking German to each other. Two of them natively and the third as a second language.
When making an English language film about them complete authenticity is not possible. But by exchanging English for German it’s still possible to retain the aspect of there being two native speakers and one foreigner, but having the one person who would (probably) have been speaking German with a Russian accent in real life use English with a Russian accent here.You may not agree with this choice, but it’s certainly consistent.

Making Freud and Jung speak English with German accents would not have added authenticity as they did not actually converse with each other in heavily accented English. But it would have shown them as people communicating through a language barrier which wasn’t actually there historically.

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