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From: rance@cornell.UUCP (W. Rance Cleaveland)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: The Gods Must be Crazy
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 13:50:26 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