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Subtitles - foreign films
Don McManus
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Why, when you are watching a foreign film with subtitles do they put things like ‘cattle mooing’ or ‘birds chirping’?
I would much prefer to know what the cows and birds are actually saying.
Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.
Brad Steele
Brad Steele
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It can be done, it's just that there's so many dialects of "bird" and "cow" and "horse" you can't fit them all on the selection list. They tried then the horses got their tails up, the cows were NOT a-mooosed, the pigs got their panties in a twist, the SPCA was called in and they just trashed the whole project.
many years ago I started working for a Japanese company
and well I had to ask 😁 for many years watching countless war movies and such I just had to assume what was translated or just back go round talking not translated . was it up and up or just BS made up words or thinks Like I cant wait to get out of this stupid outfit and see my gal LOL one of my bosses was married to a Japanese lady and could speak it and read it
said he never gave it much thought but from what he had paid attention to it delt with what ever was going on in the film
but did say when he was around Japanese that had no idea he understood them is where the fun came in
I don't really mind the subtitled background stuff but boy! I sure wish I could read FASTER!! 😲
I use subtitles on everything because voices, not volume gives me trouble.
My two favorite subtitles are 'insects chittering' and 'ethereal music playing'. What the heck is a chittering insect?
I agree. I would just once like to see Gary Larson subtitle a western.
’Hey, Bob, before we get to Abilene what say we spend some time with the heifers?’
Brad Steele
Back in the early days of Hollywood A director asked real Indians for a "War Cry" he could use in his movie. They told him something (cant remember the word or movie but it sounded scary). The director had the actors playing Indians yell it during an attack scene. Bet the Indians got a real kick out of watching actors yelling "Hello" while attacking everyone. 🤣🤣🤣
my problem with them is i concentrate on reading them and stop watching the characters in the movies. from what i have researched that is a common thing.
We turn on Closed Captioning for a lot of BBC Mysteries. Without it, we keep asking each other "What was that?" and" What'd he say?"
It REALLY helps to have an ZVox sound bar that uses hearing aid technology to filter out the overbearing music and stuff in favor of voices, but sometimes even that isn't good enough.