20-02-2025 20:01 via theconversation.com

How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts

The movie industry has gotten much more careful in the past few decades about authenticity (Emilia Pérez notwithstanding). Yet screenwriters won’t write out foreign-language dialogue, or phonetically spell dialects or regional accents, in the formal screenplay itself, and there are good reasons for that. – The Conversation
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