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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Subtitling vs. Dubbing
Message-ID: <1168@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:27:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:27:27 1985
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>                           ...My wife and I happened to catch "The Wizard
> of Oz" dubbed in Italian when we were in Rome this summer.  The dubbing
> over Margaret Hamilton was wonderful, and the person who dubbed Judy
> Garland managed to actually capture the nuance of the voice, as did the
> individual who dubbed Bert Lahr.  Most of the jokes actually made it
> intact and the substitute puns were inspired. "There's no place like
> Home" however, was translated to something on the order of "There is no
> place to go like the place where you originally came from" and had to
> be stretched over two iterations of the original.  Sorta destroyed the
> final mood. 
> 
> 						Byron C. Howes

I saw "The French Connection" subtitled in Danish.  *That* was
funny, since there was no Scandinavian counterpart for much of
the New York drug culture patois.  They often went with a
literal translation, which made hilarious mincemeat of such items
as, "Do you still pick your feet?"
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