Film set in Rome during the Roman Empire

>film set in Rome during the Roman Empire
>all the characters have British accents

That happens in a bunch of other historical settings as well, still better than when they just give them American accents though.

> film set in Russia, every character speaks English with Russian accent
You know who you are

The accent is what bothers you? Not that they're speaking english in the first place?

What accent would you prefer, wiseguy?

A NYC Italian accent?

>film stars ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians
>they're all white
Hmmm....

what other language would they speak? English is universal

Bump

How about Greek, or Latin, shitlord?

Bump

this is better than having them speak with a british accent.

>film set in Rome
>characters are white

WE

why don't they speak Italian then?

English is the new latin.. sooooooo

It sounds better than Italian.

This. Last I checked Rome is in Italy not Latin America, but they never show ancient Romans speak Italian.

>make a movie in Latin
Do you want America to give a shit about your movie at all?

1. The Italian language did not exist during Roman Imperial times.

2. The Roman Empire comprised more than just the Italian Peninsula.

I really hope these posts are ironic.

>OP tries to start a frogposter tv trope thread
>it turns into an actual discussion

>1. The Italian language did not exist during Roman Imperial times.
Did they all speak latin back then?

Where did italian come from?

>Character reads out phone number
>555-XXXX

>stars ancient Romans
>they're all blonde hair blue eye white Guys
You're telling me there's no good Mediterranean/Berber actors

Latin America, it was brought back via sailors on trading vessels.

Italian was created by Italian-Americans in New Jersey.

All the city states of Italy during the medoeval era had a different dialect that evolved from Latin. The Italian we use today comes from Florence.

cant tell if you are retarded or a troll

Italian isn't even a real language

its just a bunch of ibity bibity and exaggerated hand motions

>film made in hollywood
>all the actors have british accents

>Did they all speak latin back then?

No, but it was the "Lingua Franca" up until XVIII century CE.

>Where did italian come from?

From a mixture between Latin, and Italic languages, but even today, the Italian language is still "new" in that it is barely more than a synthesis of dialects.

>Italic languages
they emphasized every word? sounds exhausting

Why did Italy give up on Latin when it was so popular as a written language? Was it too hard to learn so they adopted hand gestures, gabagool and seizures instead?

the same reason UK and USA gave up on proper English

>He wants Roman movies to feature Vulgar and Classical Latin
I'd rather not thank you.

Then don't watch movies about Rome, idiot.

>movie set in france
>characters speak in english with american and english accents
literal shit

>all y'all not realizing one of the GOAT directors Mel Gibson filmed a movie in complete Aramaic
If he can do it in Aramaic, why can't a Roman film be filmed in the Roman language?

>Implying
Spanish is the closest language to Latin of any of the romance languages.
Conjugate all forms of "am" in Latin for me please. It's a messy language to learn since it has none of the saving graces of its descendants.

I honestly don't understand where family guy got the bobbity boobity, b is one of the rarest sounds in italian...
and in the passion of christ romans speak latin.

People didn't learn real latin and didn't care that they werent speaking the real deal and so it became romance languages, latin was preserved in places like Ireland in monasteries exactly because they made the effort to learn it from books rather than from what others were speaking

>the romans weren't white
>the shitty of (you)

>Did they all speak latin back then?
>Where did italian come from?

thanks for reminding me i am sharing this board with americans

The didn't "give up" on Latin, they spoke various dialects that were vulgar forms of Latin that eventually evolved into what we now call Italian.

>Spanish is the closest language to Latin of any of the romance languages.
not really, no. Sardinian is, the next one is italian.

>implying
No way I could ever forget sum es est sumus estis sunt

they did give up, Latin was too hard for Italians to learn

that's only the present

I guess inthe sense that most of the western world stopped learning Latin, but Classical Latin was never really the spoken language of most Italians or ancient romans.

then what did they speak back then?

>Spanish is the closest language to Latin of any of the romance languages
t. Juan Gonzalez Ramirez de la Fresca del Rio Grande

i am never conjugate verbs beyond active present indicative anyway

Various dialects of Vulgar Latin. Like Said modern day Italian is florentine Italian, which is essentially the florentine dialect of Vulgar Latin.

There's a reason behind it

Would you rather have them speak latin?

Nobody knows what they would actually sound like except maybe Italian and nobody wants to listen to a bunch a whops spaghettiing and gabagooling .