Why English used in American films is different from the English literary ?

English taught in schools is "Proper English" No one uses it in real life conversations. Its like any language. There is what they teach you, and what people really use. For instance in high school I took spanish. One day I was talking to some spanish speaking people, and I tried to communicate with them with the spanish that I knew. They started laughing. I was embarrassed, and said "this is what they taught me in school. They taught me wrong." They said no you're spanish isn't wrong, its just no one talks like that. And now I'm learning tagalog. I have this language program on my computer. I tried using it with my wife, she laughed. She said that's wrong. I said oh great so I got a program with bad translation. She said no its right, but its old. No one talks like that. Also as you have noticed there are 2 main types of english. British english, and American english. British english is the original english. They have words that americans don't have. If I were to talk to a brit I would be lost. America speaks english because the brits use to control America before its independence. So it is the main language (unofficially), but in America we are not one group of people. We are made up of people from all over the world. Each with their own languages, and accents, blended with the english, to form the english that is spoken today in America, and in most movies. We do have hollywood.

True. i noticed that too. English in films are different from the English literary. most of the literaries are taught in school. i know its confusing. English taught in school like what the other respondent said, are more formal. they teach you the basics like sentence construction, tenses, pronunciation, grammar, spelling, etc. American English is the most common since Americans have developed numerous shows and movies which now affects the way most people talk. like any other languages, English has evolved and have adopted some words and considered it English. Look at the dictionaries, every year they add certain number of words, which people generally accepted as a word, like "doable". as for British and American English, there are a lot of differences especially when it comes to pronunciation, accents and spelling, so as, Filipino English, Australian English, Indian English... British English stand out in America because of their accent. doesnt mean they're not fluent though! and vice versa.

in my country we have our own literature and the way we speak the language is immensely different to what you read from literary books.there are words which are only use for conversation and does not apply to literature and i think that it goes the same to any country then.English literary is somewhat poetic you don't want to speak every now and then like Shakespeare right?

Literary language and spoken language is different in all countries. Also there are different kinds of English, as American and British English aren't completely alike. In the case of a movie, it has to be realistic, so instead of making the language beautiful they need to express emotions, and that kind of languages is different from the one that you use to make the reader understand what's going on in a book. It's all English, it's all correct, but used for different situations.

American movies use language that is spoken by the subject's characters in order to make the story seem more realistic. We have a lot of slang words in America, and within American those slang words are different according to where in the country you live, the environment you live in, etc. Age and technology have also produced a lot of slang words that I don't always understand and I've lived here all my life! But I think it is the same in all countries. I couldn't get used to the English saying "pissed" because it means mad here, and drunk there! I don't think that pronunciation is necessarily so different, but the accent in different parts of the country might make it seem so, especially in New York and in the deep south where accents seem to be the heaviest. It's one of those things you can only learn the way you are doing it now...to ask what it means. Soon enough you will be incorporating those words into your everyday language. That isn't necessarily a good thing. Now the thing that I find about the way we speak is that too many of us use terrible grammer. We were not taught it that way either.

Oh yeah, it's quite different between oral English and written English. I'm a Chinese student, as we were taught in class all the times, I believe that if I greet somebody, an American e.g. , "How are you?" He will certainly reply "Fine." But someday I asked an real American, he answered "Good". I asked why, He answered:" 'Fine' is too formal, and we said 'fine' almost 60 years ago." So the English we learned in school is not modern English, the English in movies is the real English. My English is not so good, because of the Education of our school. This is my first reply, so please excuse my Chinglish ^_^

Language learning is funny like that. For example, the french we learn here in american french is almost useless in the french-Canadian provinces Quebec and New Brunswick. The french most schools here teach is propper parisian french. I am going to assume the english taught in your schools is more along the line s of "queens english", or propper brittish english. Usable but it misses a lot of the subtle things like slang, emphasis and inflection. Then there are dozens of various accents in the U.S. depending on where you live here. The northern new england region (3 most north east states) is somewhat different from that of the mid west, or even southern new england (the 3 states right below northern new england). Go to the south and you have another accent entirely, several in fact. Then there's a very distinct accent that comes from one of the very most southern states, Lousiana (almost another language in itself) refered to sometimes as cajun. Go out to the west coast and it changes again.

I think a lot of people have more or less answered this. When a language is taught, any language, not just English, one learns the more proper, and formal language. For instance I studied Spanish and French. Now the proper way to say how are you? Is Como esta Usted? (In Spanish) or Comment allez-vous? in French, but rarely is one so formal in real everyday speaking, instead it might simply be Como esta? or Comment ça va? Also there is no real American English spoken if one considers the different accents due to different regions of America...a person from New York will talk differently than a person say from Georgia. Even UK English isn't the same as they have different dialects also

This because American was a multi living, the combine from so many culture.And as we know that most of the people who brought English language to there was a civilian people.Not a baron are kingdom family are kind like that, so their grammar or style was different with the UK. In my country Indonesia, exspecialy the Javanese.The language will be different between a civilian with a kingdom.And this brought until right know.

English in films is usually based on how it was spoken during the time it was made. Every day the way people speak changes seems like every ten years or so, slang has switched up and what was said once isn't said now. Quite often films don't depict how people actually speak, but rather how properally taught people should speak. It can be difficult, but that's just how it is.