Does anyone in 'House of Gucci' actually sound Italian? claire_lampen asked Italian linguists to review the movie's accents
Gang’s all here; let’s discuss. Photo: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Approximately eight months ago, the paparazzi surprised us with a gift that keeps on giving: a first look at House of Gucci, Ridley Scott’s retelling of the assassination of Maurizio Gucci , through photos they snapped from the sets in Italy.
Italian also makes fewer distinctions in the sounds vowels make: “ship” may sound like “sheep,” “cat” may sound like “cot,” “ankle” may sound like “uncle.” English, by contrast, is a stress-timed language, as is Russian: stressed syllables come at regular intervals, punctuated by shorter, unstressed syllables. “When Lady Gaga speaks, she doesn’t lose that quality,” De Fina explains, “so that’s one thing that I think makes it sound strange to us.
Which underscores a related point: Gaga committed to this bit 200 percent, gestating her accent over nine unbroken months during which she purportedly spoke exclusively as Reggiani — or her version of Reggiani; Gaga never met with her subject, to Reggiani’s chagrin — both on set and off. She even dyed her hair brown to heighten the accent’s effect. The end result packs immense transportive force.
Without the trilled R notes and the expansive vowels, Gaga’s pronunciation becomes clipped and guttural. Her rhythm, intonation, and collapsing of unstressed vowels feel more appropriate to Russian pronunciation: “Ethical” rather than the Italian “etical-e”; “puhrson” rather than “pehrrrrson-e.”Or in direct comparison with Reggiani, who puts the full range of Italian trademarks on display in the interview below.
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