As somebody who has been a Vietnamese for roughly 20 years I think the Vietnamese spoken in this movie is actually accurate, considering the tone, the grammar, and the pronunciation. Many of the actors in this show are native Vietnamese as well so I don't think it'd sound fake by any chance. Yes, the main character doesn't seem to be a local and sounded the most unnatural but I could tell what he's saying all the time with relative ease. I have only seen episode 1 tho and not being that much of a history buff so I don't know how accurate some of the historical aspects are represented in the show, but as far as the language goes they pretty much nailed it.
and that's not to say that the dialogue is 100% natural in a casual, conversational way. I don't think we exactly talk like this, maybe we word stuff a bit more casually and the some of the shouting/loud insults sound kinda corny, but in a movie/tv show context I'm not bothered by it at all
As for the historical stuff, they did have a lot of people in the project who lived through the war, such as Cao Ky Duyen (who, fun fact, played a character based on her mother, and was a pre-teenager in 1975) and Kieu Chinh and others. There's a behind the scenes clip where they said a lot of the actors, which included background actors and other staff, who lived through the war were really emotional filming the getaway scene in episode 1. They said for some, it was really healing and cathartic, but difficult. And for the lead actor, who wasn't even born at the time, said he learned a lot about what people went through during that time, considering, like most people, his parents never really talked about the war. All in all, I think it was as accurate as it could have been.
@@aznmochibunny woa thanks for your input, I've finished the show now and I really liked what I saw. The show was not as concerned with the history as I'd thought and went in a more satirical and almost slice-of-life direction after ep1 for some reason (?) and it definitely got really weird towards the end but it did make me feel a lot of things.
Don't show this to your professor lol. Thanks for the thoughts on this being very LA, sounds like it's not for me.
As somebody who has been a Vietnamese for roughly 20 years I think the Vietnamese spoken in this movie is actually accurate, considering the tone, the grammar, and the pronunciation. Many of the actors in this show are native Vietnamese as well so I don't think it'd sound fake by any chance. Yes, the main character doesn't seem to be a local and sounded the most unnatural but I could tell what he's saying all the time with relative ease. I have only seen episode 1 tho and not being that much of a history buff so I don't know how accurate some of the historical aspects are represented in the show, but as far as the language goes they pretty much nailed it.
and that's not to say that the dialogue is 100% natural in a casual, conversational way. I don't think we exactly talk like this, maybe we word stuff a bit more casually and the some of the shouting/loud insults sound kinda corny, but in a movie/tv show context I'm not bothered by it at all
As for the historical stuff, they did have a lot of people in the project who lived through the war, such as Cao Ky Duyen (who, fun fact, played a character based on her mother, and was a pre-teenager in 1975) and Kieu Chinh and others.
There's a behind the scenes clip where they said a lot of the actors, which included background actors and other staff, who lived through the war were really emotional filming the getaway scene in episode 1. They said for some, it was really healing and cathartic, but difficult. And for the lead actor, who wasn't even born at the time, said he learned a lot about what people went through during that time, considering, like most people, his parents never really talked about the war.
All in all, I think it was as accurate as it could have been.
@@aznmochibunny woa thanks for your input, I've finished the show now and I really liked what I saw. The show was not as concerned with the history as I'd thought and went in a more satirical and almost slice-of-life direction after ep1 for some reason (?) and it definitely got really weird towards the end but it did make me feel a lot of things.