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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 23:10:12 GMT
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Interesting, I saw the movie twice (Ha, I saw the ET's!), and the Trade
Federation guys were not too bad dialogue wise, I guess I picked it up pretty
well (Outside of them getting a masters degree in the "Bad Guy School of
Incompetence" >:( ). Ja Ja, on the other hand, I had a horrendous time figuring
his language.
"Messa thinka Ia needa Englisha coursea," or whatever. Were there people
actually protesting Ja Ja on his dialogue? Oh well, at least the Lego Droids are
cool! :)
Scott "Does anybody need some Ja Ja Minifigs?" Sanburn
Jonathan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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
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