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Re: Ep1 peeves (includes spoilers)
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lugnet.starwars
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Sat, 29 May 1999 01:08:48 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Karim Nassar writes:
> Richard Dee wrote:
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> > On Sun, 23 May 1999 19:41:56 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following
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> > > 3. What's up with those cheesy 50's-Japanese-sci-fi-movie-dubbed voices
> > > on the Trade Federation moguls? I guess it was kind of funny if it
> > > was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek or a tip-o'-the hat, but it sure
> > > was distracting. >X'I
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> > It was an anti-Japanese statement. Greedy Trade Federation=Greedy Japanese.
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> Interestingly, at times, the Nemoidians sounded very Japanese, but at other • times, their accents
> were not at all Japanese (listen to the way they say "blockade")... I don't • really know what to
> think about this... it was distracting, but I can't decide if the accent was • deliberately meant to
> sound Japanese (and they made lots of mistakes?) or whether it is a periodic • coincidence...
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> Regardless if the above statement is in fact correct, I am quite disappointed • in GL... considering
> that the vast majority of the story influences and ideas and even thematic • devices of the entire SW
> saga are clearly Japanese in origin... (admittedly so: GL himself has said • that he was greatly
> influenced by Akira Kurosawa and elements of the Samurai tradition... even • the word: Jedi comes from
> a medieval Japanese samurai drama called "Jidai Geki")
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> --Karim
I kept wondering if the Nemoidians were named after Leonard Nemoy:)
With the way GL names things, you never know.
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| (...) Interestingly, at times, the Nemoidians sounded very Japanese, but at other times, their accents were not at all Japanese (listen to the way they say "blockade")... I don't really know what to think about this... it was distracting, but I (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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