Re: Miyazaki Movies on TCM

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:44:31 -0500, Marilee J. Layman
<marilee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:25 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
>prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Dormer) wrote:
>
>>In article <Lo9wf.18$9V6.0@xxxxxxxx>, eleeper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Evelyn C.
>>Leeper) wrote:
>>
>>> IMHO, the Miyazaki films seem to be acceptable dubbed in a way that the
>>> recent Godzilla films are not. (We won't even talk about the older
>>> ones!) It could be that the lack of precise lip movement helps.
>>
>>As it happens, there was a documentary about recent Japanese cinema on the
>>BBC last night and it included a clip from the dubbed version of Spirited
>>Away, and it sounded wrong to me. Possibly, this was because when I'd
>>seen it subtitled, I was hearing the words with an English accent, so it
>>sounded wrong with the characters speaking with American accents.
>
>Ah, the antidote! Whenever I watch Wyrd Sisters, I'm shocked at the
>English accents. Nobody on Diskword has accents, in my head.
>

BAck in the late 80's we got a space video, some kind of guide to the
Solar System iirc, narrated by Isaac Asimov. I'd been reading his
stuff for years, both fiction and non-fiction, but his accent still
came as a fairly major surprise!

Alan Woodford
The Greying Lensman
.

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