Submitted by LocalAfter4312 t3_z8vq2h in gaming
As a relatively old guy in the gaming community, I spend a lot of time hearing gripes from the young 'uns that are often based in not knowing any better. I let a lot of them roll off my back, but I chime in when I know it's blatant misinformation. This is one of those times.
MARIO. IS. NOT. FROM. ITALY. He never has been.
Mario Mario and his brother Luigi are Americans of Italian descent, NOT Italian, and have been since they were given the name Mario Bros. They are from Brooklyn, NY. All the source material confirms this. They've never had their backstory changed, and every pre-N64 bit of media around them depicts them as having Brooklyn accents of various degrees of severity (it is literally the ONLY thing the God awful live action movie got right).
Then Charles Martinet got hired, and suddenly, again, without backstory change to make it make sense, the Mario Brothers started sounding Giorgio Armani after a helium binge. For over a quarter of a century.
Do I think Pratt is the best choice? No. Danny Devito, hands down. Even DeNiro. But Pratt isn't the worst choice. That goes to Charles Martinet and whomever decided to give them that ridiculous mockery of an Italian accent to begin with.
/rant.
TurbulentAd4089 t1_iydit5e wrote
Americans with italian descent can have an italian accent