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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Gods Must be Crazy
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 16:47:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 16:47:53 1985
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In article <384@cvl.UUCP> liang@cvl.UUCP (Eli Liang) writes:
>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?  

I think that the movie was postsynced.  In other words, they didn't record
the dialog at the time of the shooting, but added it later, dubbing it in.
The Italians are the masters of this.  Most Italian films are shot this way,
even when they are to be shown in Italian.  The technique is cheaper because
you don't ruin shots because of bad sound, you don't need to work at keeping
as quiet a set, you don't have to pay as many sound people, etc.  The Italians
have become so adept at this that they can make English language films and TV
look like they were made in Italian.

>Its unfortunate that this movie received little
>attention in this country.  It is quite a gem.

For a foreign movie not from Britain, it's received a lot of attention.  It's
grossed, if memory serves, in excess of $20 million dollars.  Of course, it's
release pattern was big city first, but I imagine it's made its way to most
American cities by now.
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        			Peter Reiher
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