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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: Dubbing Max Revisited
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 21:33:44 EDT
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In article <797@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes:
>For some inexplicable reason I watched the better part of "The Road Warrior"
>on NBC Sunday night.  I guess I must have wanted to hear the sound track in
>stereo in the privacy of my own home.
>
>I should have bought the record.
>
>For some inexplicable reason the TV cut of the film has dubbed the narrator's
>voice with someone who is trying to sound like the original narrator, but with
>a less Austrialian accent.  Insofar as I can tell, the script (in that area)
>was unchanged, just a different voice was used in the voice-overs.
>
>As the original was quite intelligible, I can find no reason for this beyond
>the fact that NBC might have wanted the film to be more "American."  Any
>ideas?

I've seen the Road Warrior 2 times, plus seeing it on NBC the same night.  I
couldn't tell any difference.


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