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From: esco@ssc-vax.UUCP (Michael Esco)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: MAD MAX
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 12:32:30 EDT
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> To answer Joe Barone's question regarding the dubbing of MAD MAX, I saw it in
> a movie theater, not on cable, and it contained the same idiotic dubbing.
> 
> Maybe the distributor thought that American audiences couldn't understand
> "Austrailian English"?  In any event it destroyed the movie 100%,  but at
> least we know why Max got mad.
> 				David Cherson

I saw `Mad Max' a couple years back with what I believe was the original
soundtrack. While "ausie" isn't all that hard to decipher under good
circumstances, I remember the sound as being very bad in this film. It
probably had a signal-to-noise ratio of maybe 3 dB in spots. I haven't
seen (or heard) the dubbed version, but I wouldn't blame someone re-recording
the dialog in order to make it audible. You don't make much money from
a film you can't understand.

						Michael Esco
						Boeing Aerospace