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Posted by Richard C. on 06/07/07 19:59
"Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message
news:46683b41$0$19512$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> Richard C. wrote:
>> "Phisherman" <noone@nobody.com> wrote in message
>> news:hfpe63pio9jf4m8gar5h9kl7qoian7vi04@4ax.com...
>>> The Pan's Labyrinth DVD that is at our local Blockbuster is in Spanish
>>> with English subtitles. Can't see how a movie that is in Spanish is
>>> in high demand (there may be less than 500 Spanish speaking folks in
>>> out town) or movie watchers don't mind reading English captions? Has
>>> anyone seen Pan's Labyrinth dubbed in English?
>>
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>> You haven't seen many good foreign films, have you?
>
> Nor does he live in my city. Univision (Spanish-language network) has just
> moved into second place for viewers of local news broadcasts.
>
> Also, a chance for a rant: I hate dubbed movies. Although I am
> monolingual, I would much rather see a subtitled one than a dubbed one. I
> still remember some Italian movie (perhaps Bitter Rice) in which the
> speaker talks for several seconds waving her arms; the dubber replaced the
> voice with "no". Even if the dubbing is more authentic, it still can't
> match the speech patterns of the original IMNSHO. One of my favorites in
> Almodovar's "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"; he eliminated the
> chance of its being dubbed by giving some of the main characters jobs as
> movie dubbers.
> Allen
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I agree.
In a dubbed version the emotions and inflections of the voice are ALL wrong.
Witness Crouching Tiger - LOUSY in the dubbed version.
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