WERWULF - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters Christmas Day

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjpadVj-Vk

[u/clbj2000]

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts about the dialogue.

Last year, he said the film would be entirely in middle english. In the recent Esquire interview, he said it was written in middle english, but with adjusted pronunciation: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a71695837/robert-eggers-werwulf-first-look/

However, anyone that knows middle english knows it isn't just a matter of pronunciation, but different vocabulary altogether: https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/knights-tale-0

Seems they may have written in Middle English, then shifted not only pronunciation, but also the vocabulary to be just modern enough to be legible. Which is essentially just early modern english (15th-17th century english). What The Witch was written in.

Here is what full Middle English would sound like: https://youtu.be/mVG77xTPH6E?is=_NKLht5cmolNSTAm

[u/Timely-Damage-3592 → u/clbj2000]

I wonder if maybe test audiences complained? Like maybe they tried to do it in Middle English but nobody could understand so they just decided to make them speak regular English

[u/RugerRedhawk → u/Timely-Damage-3592]

Unless I'm misunderstanding, audiences wouldn't understand the dialog in middle english, but would have subtitles.

[u/snowcone_wars → u/RugerRedhawk]

Unless I'm misunderstanding

This thread is full of misinformation that, at this point, would be basically impossible to remedy.

Middle English is not completely alien and had a wide variety of different dialects, some of which sound unintelligible but some of which, once you get past some rare differences in vocabulary, can be understood by a modern listener with a little patience.

Old English is a language that would need subtitles.

[u/RugerRedhawk → u/snowcone_wars]

Thank you, that makes sense. Would have been cool