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From: liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang)
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Subject: Re: Re: The Gods Must be Crazy
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 20:53:40 EDT
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> > I just saw this movie for the third time and I thought it was sooo funny.
> > My only complaint has to deal with the lip synch/dubbing.  Does anyone know
> > why this movie was dubbed at all?  I mean, our brothers in South Africa
> > speak English don't they? 
> 
> The majority of whites in South Africa (60%) speak a variant of Dutch called
> Afrikaanse, and while I don't know for sure I would suspect that this movie
> is in Afrikaanse.  Hence the dubbing....
> 
> I too thoroughly enjoyed this movie; the humor was a bit cliched in places,
> but over-all I thought it was one of the funnier movies I saw this year.
> My enjoyment was tempered, however, by nagging suspicions that the movie
> had racist overtones.  A review in one of the local papers accused the movie
> of being patronizing to African blacks--the term "noble savage" was bandied
> about in the review in a derogatory fashion.  Personally, I didn't find the
> movie racist; it seems to me that fundamental human traits, rather than
> stereotypically "black" traits, were being parodied.
> 
> Any discussion, netlanders?
> 
> Rance Cleaveland

I'm sorry to have spoken before thinking.  I've gone about under the
impression that South Africans (the white minority) were much like
Australians....  But of course, no that I think of it, the whites in
South Africa derive from Dutch settlers and not the English...  Something
from a World History class ages ago.

-eli
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