Haha, I wondered about the accents! You know, for all the anachronisms and artistic license of Turn, I have to say that the accents were absolutely wonderful to listen to. I don't know how close they came to capturing reality, but they certainly did a fantastic job of getting across the idea that late-18th-century Americans sounded nothing like what we would expect an American accent to sound like today. It would've been nice to have something like that here - especially since Luke Evans' (John's) natural accent isn't American anyway!
But I love Sara. I find her believable—not a twenty-first century woman imagined back into the late nineteenth, but a nineteenth-century woman not happy with her options and determined to make some new ones.
Yes!! I agree with this. She's not modern, she's a very convincing woman of her era struggling to break out of the role that she was cast into, but in ways that are plausible for a woman of her time. I love that even she is constrained in how she thinks of her own role in society - her surprise when the farm lady talks about mountain climbing, for example, as she has clearly never imagined women doing such things.
You say "puppy eyes," but when they're fixed on someone he's questioning or doesn't like, I see nothing but steel!
Oh yes, I completely agree! That fixed, intent look he gets is fantastic. I think Brühl couldn't be more perfect for this role; he can really get across the vulnerability and yet the colder, harder aspects of Laszlo as well.
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But I love Sara. I find her believable—not a twenty-first century woman imagined back into the late nineteenth, but a nineteenth-century woman not happy with her options and determined to make some new ones.
Yes!! I agree with this. She's not modern, she's a very convincing woman of her era struggling to break out of the role that she was cast into, but in ways that are plausible for a woman of her time. I love that even she is constrained in how she thinks of her own role in society - her surprise when the farm lady talks about mountain climbing, for example, as she has clearly never imagined women doing such things.
You say "puppy eyes," but when they're fixed on someone he's questioning or doesn't like, I see nothing but steel!
Oh yes, I completely agree! That fixed, intent look he gets is fantastic. I think Brühl couldn't be more perfect for this role; he can really get across the vulnerability and yet the colder, harder aspects of Laszlo as well.