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Subject: re: MAD MAX
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 03:27:27 EDT
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> From:	dec-fsleng!cherson	(David Cherson)

> 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.

I wouldn't agree that "it destroyed the movie 100%", but it certainly was
annoying. They didn't even overdub it completely. There are times when I
was sure that I was hearing Mel Gibson's real voice, and other times when
I was sure I wasn't. It all seems so ironic, too, considering that Gibson
was born in the U.S.

The first U.S. distributor for MAD MAX was American International, a firm
that wouldn't know a class act if it came up and bit them on the nose.
After Orion Pictures picked up THE ROAD WARRIOR for distribution, they
bought MAD MAX away from AI. I had hoped beyond hope that Orion would've
gotten fresh prints of MM to distribute, but they apparently just bought
up all of the prints that AI had in its possession and re-circulated those.

Of course, there *is* a way around this mess for anyone who is not adverse
to a great expenditure of effort (let alone money), and really cares enough.
If a videocassette of MAD MAX exists in Japan (which uses NTSC, like us; I
don't know for sure, but Australia *probably* uses PAL) that is subtitled
rather than dubbed into Japanese, it might be possible to get an unadulter-
ated version of the movie. I have no idea how to go about inquiring about it,
but its possible that someone on the net does know. I've heard of some folks
who are fans of Japanese animation and trade material with people in Japan.
That's a possible route.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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