Michael Fassbender

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#19,081
carmencrem said:
For Italians is different. In Italy they like English people and there's not any rivalry but they simply don't learn languages well. It's a fact... Then, it's difficult to get rid of Italian accent, it's too strong, especially the southern one [emoji28]
But it's kinda exotic for British people, right?
Btw I know we're going too off topic, but the discussion took me away, too interesting!
Sorry :)
I have never heard Michael speaking French -but I found it super funny when he made jokes about French people refusing to speak English and pretending they don't understand it at Fallon's- and it would be cool [emoji23]
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Haha, what Michael said is true ...... most British and Irish people have experienced that in France!!
 
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carmencrem said:
For Italians is different. In Italy they like English people and there's not any rivalry but they simply don't learn languages well. It's a fact... Then, it's difficult to get rid of Italian accent, it's too strong, especially the southern one [emoji28]
But it's kinda exotic for British people, right?
Btw I know we're going too off topic, but the discussion took me away, too interesting!
Sorry :smile:
I have never heard Michael speaking French -but I found it super funny when he made jokes about French people refusing to speak English and pretending they don't understand it at Fallon's- and it would be cool [emoji23]
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Funny enough I watched X-Men:First Class last night, in which he does speak a few sentences of French. I was wondering how it sounded to a native French speaker.
 
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pearlyqueen said:
Haha, what Michael said is true ...... most British and Irish people have experienced that in France!!
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Also Spanish, Italian and Russian people. Everybody, I think. I don't know why but French people are really a$$***** sometimes, when you don't speak their language properly or you just make an irrelevant mistake. Haha ok, it's funny how they pretend not to understand [emoji28]
 
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carmencrem said:
For Italians is different. In Italy they like English people and there's not any rivalry but they simply don't learn languages well. It's a fact... Then, it's difficult to get rid of Italian accent, it's too strong, especially the southern one [emoji28]
But it's kinda exotic for British people, right?
Btw I know we're going too off topic, but the discussion took me away, too interesting!
Sorry :)
I have never heard Michael speaking French -but I found it super funny when he made jokes about French people refusing to speak English and pretending they don't understand it at Fallon's- and it would be cool [emoji23]
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Was in Paris two years ago and speaking English was not render the ignorance from French people. I think the reason behind is money - they wanted to make money from us tourists. Economy is not good there and they no longer that 'proud '
 
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carmencrem said:
Also Spanish, Italian and Russian people. Everybody, I think. I don't know why but French people are really a$$***** sometimes, when you don't speak their language properly or you just make an irrelevant mistake. Haha ok, it's funny how they pretend not to understand [emoji28]
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At one time , learning French is like a glamour , posh thing to do - you are few nodes more classy if can speak French.
 
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Selayang430 said:
At one time , learning French is like a glamour , posh thing to do - you are few nodes more classy if can speak French.
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Yep. Well, it's a very elegant language. Personally I prefer northern and eastern languages among the European ones, but it's probably because I spent too many summers on holiday in France and Spain and now I'm a bit tired. But yes, and it's pretty difficult too, especially to write[emoji28]
 
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Yes, he's mostly very positive and they seem to have had a great working relationship, but there's definitely a couple moments where he implies that he thinks MF isn't a well-rounded actor. He says that he's seen MF's brain on the screen, but not his heart. He also says that he's "proud" of MF for opening up in this movie and gives himself and AV credit for pushing him. If he's saying that kind of thing on the promotional tour, where it's his job to be super-positive, then he's probably much more critical in real life.
ETA: The Muhammad Ali vs. Seabiscuit comparison kind of seemed shady to me too.
 
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Yeah, got it.
But I don't consider it being shady tbh.. I think he wanted to say something nice like "for the first time I saw his romantic side on screen", because it's undeniable Michael did a lot of great super great movies but his character wasn't involved in such an emotional love story. I think I can understand what Cianfrance meant by that sentence.. Probably because some years I go I had the tendency to have a similar feeling about Michael.. I obviously liked him anyways, but I felt there was something missing in his romantic side; I changed my mind before TLBO, probably seeing his interviews -in which is pretty clear he's a romantic/sweet person beyond many aspects, just in his own way, which is cool- and catching glimpses of that in many of his movies. I think he wanted to say he was positively surprised to see that Michael is not only able to play extreme (often "cold") characters with complicated minds but also the classic loving family man (with a complicated mind tho!) which is a kind of new role for him.
Tbh, even if I admit I definitely saw his heart in all of his movies -IMO especially in ADM, Shame, and -of course yes but not as much as in the other 2- Jane Eyre, I think this time it's a really different way of showing his heart. He's totally vulnerable, as Cianfrance said, and his actions are moved by love -for a woman and then for a daughter- since the beginning. He hadn't done many movies in which his actions are dictated by love/heart before TLBO. It doesn't mean he wasn't a good actor or something like that at all (!!!) but it's true it's a 100% new way of being fragile/exposed/vulnerable for him. Dramas/romances are a new genre for him. Well, wait, not a new genre, just a genre he has explored less than other genres until now, probably because he never found a script interesting enough/as much as TLBO's. He looks for real/strong/human stuff.

I didn't find his references shady. On the contrary I thought Cianfrance adored him very much.
 
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