Comments on: A whole new world...

A whole new world...

reklaw — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:54:54 -0800

I ca n show yo u the world
Shin ing, shimmer ing, sp len did ...

By: jouke

jouke — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:05:34 -0800

"Onze wereld is mooi, spannend, schitterend, stralend..."

By: whatnot

whatnot — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:10:06 -0800

Is there no japanese word for "princess"? I find that odd.

By: aws

aws — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:15:34 -0800

There is a Japanese word for princess - "hime" - but Japanese songs often borrow English words.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:18:18 -0800

Arabic?

By: davenportmom

davenportmom — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:26:47 -0800

How fun was that-It just goes to show you how vast the Disney empire is. Is it just me, but does Jasmine sound like the same singer in all but the Asian versions? Thanks, that was a great diversion from cleaning house.

By: grateful

grateful — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:30:32 -0800

So this YouTube, it's something you need to be at home to understand?

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:53:02 -0800

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By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:01:34 -0800

Jordanian.

By: wavespy

wavespy — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:16:45 -0800

It sucked in english too!

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:33:31 -0800

I can just imagine the little Thai boy or girl..."Mommy? Why don't Americans stop moving their mouths when they're finished talking?"

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:02:00 -0800

I was wondering about that too, stbalbach. How did this movie go over in the middle east, anyways?

By: semmi

semmi — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:20:57 -0800

The best of the web.

By: linux

linux — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:42:40 -0800

The Chorus: English: A Whole New World French: This Blue Dream French-Canadian: A Whole New World Italian: The World Is Yours Spanish: An Ideal World Latin-American Spanish: An Ideal World Portuguese: An Ideal World German: In My World/In Your World Dutch: A New Beginning Swedish: A Whole New World Finnish: A Whole New World Russian: A Magic World Cantonese: A Whole New World Mandarin: Looking at the World Thai: A Whole New World [IN ENGLISH] Japanese: A Wonderful World I always liked the way Portuguese sounded, and the song sounds nice in it. The French was quite nice, as well. The Russian female lead has a lovely voice (I never liked Lea Salonga -- bit this is a bias going all the way back to seeing her on TV in Filipino variety shows).

By: linux

linux — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:47:04 -0800

Okay, Mandarin is better as "Seeing the World".

By: jozxyqk

jozxyqk — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:06:20 -0800

French and French Canadian, Spanish and Latin-American Spanish, Portuguese but no Brazilian Portuguese version?

By: lampoil

lampoil — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:41:23 -0800

We had to memorize Un Mundo Ideal and many more in my high school Spanish class. Other great ones included: El Ciclo Sin Fin from The Lion King Suena from Hunchback (which I think was called Someday in the English version--it was the credits song). And something weird from Mulan

By: cardoso

cardoso — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:20:05 -0800

Brazilian portuguese translations for Disney movies are great. Most of movies and TV translations suck, but since forever Disney took control of the entire process, including aproval of all the voices. They don´t FORCE translations, the music must follow the melody, and the lyrics must contain the message, the essence. "Under the sea", from The Little Mermaid became "Onde eu nasci", "where I was born", the sound fits perfect with the original melody. And the lyrics talk about the sea, etc, the same things Ariel sings. Dreamworks did a new rendering of a scene in Monsters, Inc. because Sully had a phrase "three little words.." and counted on his fingers. There was no phrase in portuguese that fit the 3-word rule, so a new scene, with 4 fingers and a new lipsynch was rendered. Cool.

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:42:13 -0800

I never liked this song much, but the male lead in the Swedish version is terrific. Sexy, even.

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:18:11 -0800

Just to be pedantic, Monsters Inc. was Pixar, not Dreamworks. Dreamworks makes the second-rate computer-animated stuff. :) I enjoy watching Japanese anime in both subtitled and dubbed versions, just to see the differences in translation. They can vary pretty wildly. I was particularly impressed with the Cowboy Bebop series and Princess Mononoke. They came up with dialog that not only conveyed the original essence of what was said, but also matched the mouth movement fairly well. Some of these companies have SERIOUSLY talented people working for them. That said, the constraints of matching the mouth movement do cause story changes, and you'll usually get a more accurate rendition with subtitles.

By: booksandlibretti

booksandlibretti — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:24:57 -0800

A lot of people collect whole albums from Disney movies in as many different languages as possible. It's tough to buy the CDs because they're imports, if they're available at all, but that's just another thing the internets have been able to help out with. Check your favorite groups for something like "foreign Disney" or [language] Disney.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:15:11 -0800

To judge from the wikipedia article on the television series, the Arabic-speaking world was pretty fond of it (see the last line of the summary paragraphs). A little research turns up the controversy surrounding a line in the opening song ("where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/it's barbaric, but hey, it's home") that was changed. I don't know if it made it to the middle east before that was changed, though. There's a pretty thorough article here about the reception the movie had in Muslim countries in Asia, which might give a sense of how it went over in the Middle East.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:41:10 -0800

Norwegian Arabic Icelandic Hebrew The movie was done in a bunch more languages and just about all of them are available on YouTube. All the different translations makes it seem like some sort of capitalist counterpoint to The Internationale.

By: moss

moss — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:41:30 -0800

I'd just like to point out the moment one minute and 45 seconds into the Dutch version, when you can hear the sphinx guy gasp as he realizes what he's done.