Unlike many cinematic exports,
the Disney canon of films distinguishes itself with an impressive dedication to
dubbing.
Through an in-house service called
Disney Character Voices International, not just dialogue but songs, too, are
skillfully re-recorded, echoing the voice acting, rhythm, and rhyme scheme of the original work to
an uncanny degree (while still leaving plenty of room for
lyrical reinvention).
The breadth of the effort is surprising, as well -- everything from
Arabic to
Icelandic to
Zulu gets its own dub, and their latest project,
The Princess and the Frog, debuted in
more than forty tongues.
Luckily for polyglots everywhere, the exhaustiveness of Disney's translations is thoroughly documented online in
multilanguage mixes and
one-line comparisons, linguistic kaleidoscopes that cast new light on old standards.
Highlights:
"One Jump Ahead," "Prince Ali," and
"A Whole New World" (
Aladdin) -
"Circle of Life," "Hakuna Matata," and
"Luau!" (
The Lion King) -
"Under the Sea" and
"Poor Unfortunate Souls" (
The Little Mermaid) -
"Belle" and
"Be Our Guest" (
Beauty and the Beast) -
"Just Around the Riverbend" (
Pocahontas) -
"One Song" and
"Heigh-Ho" (
Snow White) -
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (
Cinderella) -
Medley (
Pinocchio) -
"When She Loved Me" (
Toy Story 2) -
Intro (
Monsters, Inc.)
posted by Rhaomi
on Nov 12, 2010 -
31 comments
Inception (WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW) (
trailer) (
prequel comic) (
cast interviews), the new film about shared dreaming by
Christopher Nolan, has shocked audiences into
gasps of delight and confusion. Two days in, the film,
having impressed critics, is already inspiring elaborate debates about its complex and surreal plotline, with theories and heated discussions
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here.
posted by shivohum
on Jul 18, 2010 -
468 comments
First, there was
colossal miscalculation. Something so bad it could
make parable a four-letter word. Didn't faze him. His next was
"bizarrely compelling... Slower than watching a train wreck," but yet invoking,
"that same level of disbelief." It was also like swallowing spiky
clusters of manure. Maybe he had
lost his mind? But yet he rose again... Or should we say he blew? No really, it was the wind this time .
A feeble gust of an environmental horror story. "You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career." Alas, like the undead, you cannot stop him. His latest, sitting at a paltry 0%* on the
Tomatometer, is
whitewashed, and offers an experience that's a
headache-inducing,
joyless,
soulless, husk that Roger Ebert called
"agonizing... in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented." It enchantingly makes,
"Jake Lloyd’s performance in The Phantom Menace look studied." And,
"the Golden Compass... look like a four-star classic." With
$150 million spent on production, and $130 million on marketing alone, has this
"auteur" finally created his
masterpiece? Or will it be the Last Straw® (in
3d!)?
[more inside]
posted by PBR
on Jun 30, 2010 -
267 comments
Java 4-Ever (safe for work apart from that one bit) - an amusing language centric film trailer made to promote the Scandinavian
JavaZone conference.
posted by Artw
on Jun 25, 2010 -
25 comments
If you buy it,
people will come. The property from the movie
The Field of Dreams is
for sale. You could own a 193 acre farm, along with a baseball field, and a tourist destination that gets approximately 65,000 visitors annually. The current owners even have permission from Universal to sell memorabilia. Along with ownership of the property comes ownership of the
Field of Dreams site. The asking price is $5.4 million.
via.
posted by bove
on May 14, 2010 -
44 comments
If you look at that video of Mohammad Sidique Khan [one of the 7/7 bombers] recording a video for his nine-month-old daughter, when he thought he was going to fight and die in Afghanistan, he was saying, ‘You and your mum are the best thing in my life, and I’d love to watch you growing up and learning to speak.’ And you realise that he’s making a pretty soppy speech from a middle-of-the-road Hollywood movie. He’s the ‘good dad’. And in his head he is. And that doesn’t preclude him going out and doing something violent. You do bad things not because you think they’re bad, but because you think they’re good — unless you’re a nihilist. British satirist Chris Morris discusses his first feature film
Four Lions, which is a comedy about Islamist suicide bombers.
Trailer.
Clip, concerning peroxide. Audio interview with Morris about the film,
Part 1 and
Part 2.
posted by Sticherbeast
on Apr 6, 2010 -
47 comments
