Trailer was good, I like the classic tale of a greedy team of thieves fighting over loot, and with it being set in a Submarine really adds an "Alien" "The Thing" isolated feel to it.
However, not keen on Jude's accent. It was too staggered which for me seemed amateurish. The more I watched the trailer the more it seemed like it didn't matter if he was Scottish or not. Why not just keep him English?
Regarding Jude and his accent (which according to an IMDb "trivia" fact, it actually wasn't Scottish), why they couldn't have let him speak normally, I don't know, but what I imagine is that whatever his normal accent is would be too redolent of his pretty boy past and they wanted him very broken, low class, and tough. It seems to me that in movies, at least, the Scots are being stereotyped as being tough and violent, always ready to bash you unconscious with a heavy pint glass full of beer, or worse. If one has movies to go by, in modern days, the toughest and most violent Caucasians are Russians and Scottish, always up for a brawl or a stabbing or some other violence, and here this movie featured both in submarine.
shareRegarding Jude and his accent (which according to an IMDb "trivia" fact, it actually wasn't Scottish), why they couldn't have let him speak normally, I don't know, but what I imagine is that whatever his normal accent is would be too redolent of his pretty boy past and they wanted him very broken, low class, and tough. It seems to me that in movies, at least, the Scots are being stereotyped as being tough and violent, always ready to bash you unconscious with a heavy pint glass full of beer, or worse. If one has movies to go by, in modern days, the toughest and most violent Caucasians are Russians and Scottish, always up for a brawl or a stabbing or some other violence, and here this movie featured both in the closed quarters of a submarine.
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