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Thread #58488   Message #937706
Posted By: JJ
22-Apr-03 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: Review: A Mighty Wind
Subject: RE: Review: A Mighty Wind
My Swedish friend Birgitta writes:

"Hur aer laeget lilla gumman" (How's It Hangin' Grandma) is colloquial Swedish and idiomatically correct. So much so that the Guest/Levy writing team must have asked someone who grew up in Sweden to give them the wording.

But Ed Begley pronounces it so badly that it took me several viewings of the trailer to get it. That's my only beef with the movie -- couldn't they have taken the trouble to get him to say it right? I mean, he's an *actor*, surely he took Dialects and Accents 101 or whatever in college...