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In a message dated 8/21/2004 1:15:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I sit through
Bruce Lee movies for the awesome fight scenes and giggle over the awful
dubbing which has old Chinese men talking like American gangsters. >>


SOmething I've noticed about JC's movies. He films mostly in CHina using
native companies. When He is speaking to another Chinese Character, they film in
Chines and later dub English in. When he is speaking to an English speaking
character, they speak English.
BUT!
They tweak the soundtrack so that the words and their lips are still slightly
off. Cracks me up everytime.
Elissa Jill
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
They're supposed to help you discover who you are.
~Bernice Johnson Reagon


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Robyn Coburn

<<<SOmething I've noticed about JC's movies. He films mostly in CHina using
native companies. When He is speaking to another Chinese Character, they
film in
Chines and later dub English in. When he is speaking to an English speaking
character, they speak English.
BUT!
They tweak the soundtrack so that the words and their lips are still
slightly
off. >>>

I once was propmaster for a Taiwanese company shooting a film in Los Angeles
starring a Chinese-American teen boy band who lived in obscurity here in LA
but were bigger than the Backstreet Boys in Taiwan - mob scenes of teenage
girls wherever they went there. It was an extraordinary experience of
culture clashing and different ways of working. However the relevance to
this topic is that not recording live sound - dialogue or effects or room
tone or anything - is the "way it is done" generally in Asia. On that movie
everyone just spoke their native tongue - either Mandarin (I think) or
English - making for some odd scenes. I'll tell the whole story to anyone
who is interested in funny "behind the scenes" stuff if I ever see you. The
movie, which seemed appallingly bad to all of us local workers, was
evidently the biggest hit in Taiwan of that particular summer.

Robyn L. Coburn

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