Re: Translations (was Re: An introduction)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 14:34 |
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:37:58PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Another weird DVD translation issue: I was looking at a DVD of Princess
> Mononoke, an anime movie, and it said that it had English and French
> audio tracks, and that was all. Now, why have two different translated
> tracks, but omit the original, Japanese, track? :-)
Lack of star power, perhaps? At least in the version that screened in theatres
here, Mononoke had celebrity voices doing the English dubbing - Billy Bob
Thornton as the monk was particularly jarring.
Give me Japanese audio with subtitles any day. :)
-Mark
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