Gang’s all here; let’s discuss. Photo: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Approximately eight months ago, the paparazzi surprised us with a gift that keeps on giving: a first look at House of Gucci, Ridley Scott’s retelling of the assassination of Maurizio Gucci , through photos they snapped from the sets in Italy.
Italian also makes fewer distinctions in the sounds vowels make: “ship” may sound like “sheep,” “cat” may sound like “cot,” “ankle” may sound like “uncle.” English, by contrast, is a stress-timed language, as is Russian: stressed syllables come at regular intervals, punctuated by shorter, unstressed syllables. “When Lady Gaga speaks, she doesn’t lose that quality,” De Fina explains, “so that’s one thing that I think makes it sound strange to us.
Which underscores a related point: Gaga committed to this bit 200 percent, gestating her accent over nine unbroken months during which she purportedly spoke exclusively as Reggiani — or her version of Reggiani; Gaga never met with her subject, to Reggiani’s chagrin — both on set and off. She even dyed her hair brown to heighten the accent’s effect. The end result packs immense transportive force.
Without the trilled R notes and the expansive vowels, Gaga’s pronunciation becomes clipped and guttural. Her rhythm, intonation, and collapsing of unstressed vowels feel more appropriate to Russian pronunciation: “Ethical” rather than the Italian “etical-e”; “puhrson” rather than “pehrrrrson-e.”Or in direct comparison with Reggiani, who puts the full range of Italian trademarks on display in the interview below.
claire_lampen All the biopics lately seem better suited for the Lifetime channel or maybe Netflix rather than the big screen.
claire_lampen I'm italian, the first time I watched the trailer I was like hell no, this is ridiculous. But now I feel like the weird accent actually makes the movie, I'd refuse to watch it in italian because it would lose all that campy appeal.
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claire_lampen That one rymfarr tweet’s impact
claire_lampen Answer: NO. It makes them sound ridiculous. However the real point is: WHY? Reggiani would have spoken to Gucci in Italian, & so everybody else. They would not have spoken to each other in English. Why not sticking to their standard English accent then? Incomprehensible decision.
claire_lampen Thank you for this article. It’s very well written and shows that there’s nothing like a true Italian accent. Gaga did a fantastic job with developing her character and we should commend her for that.
claire_lampen That's why I'm going to watch at all. It's about their accents mainly and then about brand history🤑, not so much about the cast.
claire_lampen Roma, cannoli, god-fardur
claire_lampen I have a sort of family (by marriage to family) relationship to someone who says in Italy they are more Americanized today than you might think, street signs often in English (if not also Italian). English is the lingua franca of net, and as such...
claire_lampen Thin line between reporting on a movie and hyping a movie.
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