Does Everything Have To Be Dubbed? And Why Is Something Always Blowing Up?
This weekend I had a very interesting conversation with one of my coworkers while manning the Box at amc. One of our Guest asks what the movie The Protector was about. Not the theater provides a summary of its movies for us to give out when asked. But those summaries tend to suck and nobody wants to stand there and listen to them any ways. So I gave a brief assessment based of the previews shown and what I heard from my other coworkers when the Guest tuned me out as I was reading the summary provided by amc. Then the guy manning one of the other registers asks if they had seen a film called ONG BAK 2. As it turns out The Protector and ONG BAK 2 are the exact same film. In fact you can walk right across the way and buy it on DVD rather than spending the money at the theater to see it. However there is one difference between what you'll see in theaters and what you'll see on the DVD being sold at the other end of the mall. The movie being shown in the theater has had about 20 to 30 minutes cut out of it to 'make it suite American audiences'.
Now I myself have never seen either of these movies and there for I am not stating my own thoughts or views of the films, but merely relaying what I have been told. According to the individual I spoke with, who has seen both The Protector and ONG BAK 2, the original was the better of the two and that he felt that The Protector was geared more towards fighting. Which is what people where coming to see. Originally the movie was about the quest for the retrieval of something sacred and that the main character held dear to himself in his own right. Now it's become some guy out for revenge.
It kind of makes you wonder if the only thing people are interested in is mindless violence. I offer Crank (which I have in fact seen) as an example on this front. That is basically all that movie is. Just one act of random violence after another. Not only that, but the main character spends about 20 minutes running around in a hospital gown with his ass hanging out for all the world to see. There's even a public sex scene. Don't get me wrong I thought it was a good movie and funny as Hell at some points but still. Hell even on our slow days the movies that get the most attendance are the one where something blows up or offers the best chance of seeing something blow up.
Now I can see making a movie geared to a specific audience type. But to cut up a perfectly good film to make it fit someone else's standards of acceptable is too much really. Don't even get me started on the dubbing of Japanese's Animation. Trust me you could fill a book with what I have to say on the topic. Basically what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't have to take something that's good in its own right and change it so that it can be considered ok by the masses on the other side of the globe.
Now I myself have never seen either of these movies and there for I am not stating my own thoughts or views of the films, but merely relaying what I have been told. According to the individual I spoke with, who has seen both The Protector and ONG BAK 2, the original was the better of the two and that he felt that The Protector was geared more towards fighting. Which is what people where coming to see. Originally the movie was about the quest for the retrieval of something sacred and that the main character held dear to himself in his own right. Now it's become some guy out for revenge.
It kind of makes you wonder if the only thing people are interested in is mindless violence. I offer Crank (which I have in fact seen) as an example on this front. That is basically all that movie is. Just one act of random violence after another. Not only that, but the main character spends about 20 minutes running around in a hospital gown with his ass hanging out for all the world to see. There's even a public sex scene. Don't get me wrong I thought it was a good movie and funny as Hell at some points but still. Hell even on our slow days the movies that get the most attendance are the one where something blows up or offers the best chance of seeing something blow up.
Now I can see making a movie geared to a specific audience type. But to cut up a perfectly good film to make it fit someone else's standards of acceptable is too much really. Don't even get me started on the dubbing of Japanese's Animation. Trust me you could fill a book with what I have to say on the topic. Basically what I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't have to take something that's good in its own right and change it so that it can be considered ok by the masses on the other side of the globe.
posted by Draca at 10:00 PM
1 Comments:
I also agree; I feel that Americans will change anything just to make a few extra dollars. Referring back to the comment about Japanese anime, American have even taken these cartoons and changed them to fit what we consider as American standards. I can understand changing the language from Japanese to American but American doesn’t need to change the entire format of these shows.
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