I'm going to be working on a production of ASSASSINS in a few months, and as I read the script, I'm shocked to discover that no published version has the exact text of Zangara's Italian speech to Oswald. The translation of what he is saying is provided but it seems like the actual words are left up to the actor or dramaturg's ability to use google translate. I've listened to the cast albums of this show and indeed the text is drastically different in two of the recordings (the most recent off-Broadway revival didn't include it on their cast album.) I speak a very small amount of Italian myself but not nearly enough to listen and transcribe it. Does anyone with better italian than mine know what was said in either production?
This chapter will present an overview of the effects of anarchist assassinations and assassination attempts on the political, social and cultural history of Italy from the 1870s to the 1930s. Assassinations carried out by anarchists had a significant effect on the politics and the political culture of modern Italy, especially during the 1890s and the middle 1920s. I will examine how the intended and the unintended effects of these acts shaped the liberal and fascist states. This will be followed by a discussion of the effects of these acts on Italian culture and particularly on the culture of the left. This will include an examination of the social and cultural contexts of the assassins or would-be assassins themselves. Finally, the conclusion examines the mysteries, the serendipity, and the maze of competing narratives surrounding their acts.
The ethereal Italian assassin Amara character concept pass. I looked at baroque fashion and gothic material to get the look for the character. I also wanted to implement the italian flag colors in his gear, but make it subtle. What I wanted to stand out, was his baroque styled armor and the accent of his coat.
Hello people, before you flip I'll present myself. I'm an AC fan from Italy who's been thrilled as anybody else for chapter II being set in our beloved Venice.
Here comes the angst: yet a long way from stopping us from buying the game, the improvedly ethnic voiceovers from the latest E3 movie has been bugging many italians. Hence this pacific protest (all I want to to do is to make the problem known).
Those voiceovers are not real italian. It is the speech of italoamericans immigrants as The Sopranos, wrong both in accents and words usage. Venice had its own separate language back then, but really even just normal italian would be fine. American "itarian" is not, quite inauthentic and cheap.
Of course, only an italian speaker could discern it: all others would ignore the problem if it wasn't for this protest. Most won't even care, but it's right for us to say something. Which is: please use actual italians for the italian voiceovers, it's not rocket science Ubisoft!
Yes they should have correct and authentic accents but dont expect them to actually speak italian all the time because in the story its that the ANIMUS translates vital words spoken into english that the main character hears, it was the same in AC 1 with arabic
So yeah, real italian people would be good
Meh, i dont care, Ubisoft is full of frenchies and am sure that it will not be to their liking to make italians look good. Besides, remember how crappy Altair's voice actor was? That fool did not sound like a terrorist and neither did many of the other characters. As long as the story gets told. Besides, what does it matter if they have the right accent, as long as it conveys what its supposed to because then you might as well have them speak italian.
imo, you say it all yourself, an italian version will be released in italy, and you say yourself that true italians are the only people that will be able to easily tell the difference, with those two facts in mind, the market of people that would notice the difference enough to take offense to it is so small that it is pointless for ubisoft to change it, not to mention probably really expensive
Yes, Italian. In love with our food, our gastronomic culture. Being born in Bologna, one of the capital towns of italian food, eating is not just a necessity, is a way of sharing love and care with your friends and family.
A mysterious story about near-future Templars and virtual-reality access to the memories of 12th-century assassins acted as backdrop to beautiful open-world parkour and stealth. Does the sequel surpass its predecessor? After a week of play, here's how we felt.
Retirement planning is difficult for dictators at the best of times. For paranoid and psychopathic dictators, retirement is particularly difficult. Tonight a television documentary will argue that Julius Caesar was not surprised when his friend Brutus and half the Roman Senate stabbed him, but had in fact played a part in engineering this extraordinary political event. A retired Italian forensic police officer and a psychiatrist from Harvard who specialises in criminal profiling turn the conventional historical account of Caesars murder on its head. Instead of being taken surprise by his assassins, Caesar in effect courted the outcome. He normally knew what his enemies were planning and was well prepared for them. Yet on the day he was killed, he ignored his wives pleas to stay away from the Senate and went there with out his bodyguard. The motive for his reckless behaviour, according to this reconstruction of events that happened more than 2,000 years ago, is that the great general feared the frailties and indignities of old age. Plutarch says Caesar had epilepsy, and other contemporary accounts suggest that he was afflicted with diarrhoea. At 56, Caesar was already quite old by the standards of ancient Rome. As a military hero and a politician he was obsessed with his image and placed great importance on his personal dignity. Allowing his enemies to kill him would have enabled Caesar to avoid the public humiliations of temporary loss of consciousness, extreme behaviour and diarrhoea associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. Assassination in this account not only provided him with a dramatic exit but would also secure his families succession and lead to the destruction of his enemies. By co-operating with his killers, Caesar was sacrificing himself for the future of his heirs and for what he regarded as the good of Rome. Saddam, by taking on the full might of America and Britain, may also be courting death rather than retirement. Marx famously said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. But at this grim stage, it is hard to see a Kenneth Williams of the future portraying Saddam as a camp buffoon after the fashion of his Caesar in Carry on Cleo.
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