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Re: "There are always possibilities" (possible braod Ep. II Spoilers)
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:01:51 GMT
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Jonathan wrote:
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> In lugnet.starwars, Tom McDonald writes:
> <possible spoilerage>
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> > I occasionally found it difficult, if not impossible, to understand his
> > dialogue, as his accent was often affected to the point of unintelligibility.
> > I think the Jar-Jar character would have sounded much better with a
> > lower-pitched voice.
> >
> > The trade federation toadies also suffered from unintelligibility, but not as
> > much. I understand these are not supposed to be "English" speaking characters,
> > but the audience here in America is, and if we can't readily understand them,
> > then either redub the voiceovers or use subtitles.
> >
> > It is also quite likely the theatre in which I saw the movie twice(1) suffers
> > from an inferior sound system, but I thought all that was supposed to be taken
> > care of.
> >
> > -Tom McD.
> > when replying, meesa gonna cuddout da spamcake.
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> I don't think the quality of the sound system has a tremendous amount to do
> with the unintelligibility of both Jar Jar and the trade fed toadies. I'm not
> sure what the condition of your theater, but here, they seem to be popping up
> all over the place. What I'm saying is that most of the theaters here in
> Philadelphia, PA are brand new. I can think of 4, all within 20 minutes of me
> that have been built within the past 3 years. They have all the state of the
> art equipment, etc. The one, in particular, that I saw TPM in is less than a
> year old. I sat in a spot where I could here even the most miniscule sound
> (though I'm surprised I could hear anything after the pod race), but I still
> had trouble with all three of these characters. I strongly agree with you about
> subtitles. If they were going to stretch it that far from English, subtitles
> would be helpful. With Jar Jar they could've done something like they did with
> Chewie and R2-D2 where whoever they're talking to, sort of repeats the
> question.
> -Jonathan
I have to say that despite hearing many comments about how hard it was
to understand Jar Jar, I only found myself straining a couple times to
understand what he said. I had more problems with the Trade Federation
dudes (their speach sounded more slurred to me).
--
Frank Filz
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