Loved hearing Hanks Speak Bulgarian

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2004)

Hello,
I am a Bulgarian-English interpreter from Massachusetts and it is not every day I hear Bulgarian in a movie (or on the street, unless I am in Sofia)! My husband and I got a real kick out of Hanks speaking Bulgarian - it would have been a little better if they had had him hailing from the actual country rather than a fictitious one. (Although a drawback to that might have been confusion over the war - most Americans are not familiar with current events in the Balkans and might think that, God forbid, Bulgaria was at war.) Although his accent was not perfect (for example, he routinely put the emphasis on the wrong syllable), that is really splitting hairs...how many actors would reember that mustard is "gorchitza" in Bulgarian?! Compared to other, fake sounding Hollywood Eastern-European accents, (the Russians in Rambo III; anything Dracula,) Mr. Hanks did an incredible job with a difficult language. Fun film overall. Bulgari Yunatsi!