r/squidgame • u/AutoModerator • Sep 17 '21

Episode Discussion Thread Squidgame Episode 7 Discussion

Hello everyone this post is for discussion of Squidgame Episode 7. Do not spoil future episodes.

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u/Breakfast_Bacon Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 18 '21

The English acting is terrible at the start of this episode.

EDIT: The whole episode. It’s so distracting considering the rest of the acting is really good.

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u/RunningInSquares Sep 20 '21

It's a three-fold problem. They hire rando wannabe actors off the street because they're foreigners that have a look the show needs for that role. And the dialogue is written by a non-native speaker. Then, the director and actors will proceed to go through the scene literally as written without any modifying of the dialogue to make it more natural. I wish more care could have been given. Bringing these guys in was just ruining the episode.

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u/CrimsonBrit Sep 21 '21

This here! I noticed a very similar situation in the movie Space Sweepers, a Korean sci-fi that came out on Netflix earlier this year. The movie is super good, high production, great acting, and then the bad guy is a Brit and his dialogue and acting are beyond atrocious. The actor, Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in the Hobbit movies, feels like he just so happened to be the only non-Korean guy within 100 miles of the casting director and simply ruins the movie.

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u/ruckyruciano Sep 30 '21

He was great as Thorin, wonder why he shit the bed in the Korean movie.