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What is your first language if i may ask? Curious what other languages have a lot of movies? Hindi?
by throwaway7645 10y ago
What is your first language if i may ask? Curious what other languages have a lot of movies? Hindi?
- smitherfield 10y agoMany countries dub Hollywood movies.
- throwaway7645 10y agoAh, was curious as I didn't think Czechoslovakia or now the Czech republic had a film industry.
- vetinari 10y agoActually it has a movie industry. Many movies from Czechoslovakia period are being considered "classic" and are still popular, with quotes from them being used all the time. For foreign movies, there were also cases, when the dubbed versions were better (sounded better) than originals - for example Louis de Funès movies or MASH.
- abrowne 10y agoThere are some great Czech films. Check out Jan Švankmajer!
- cletus 10y agoWhat I find really interesting is that non-English speaking countries dub basically everything yet English speaking countries subtitle most of the time. Sometimes even things in English get subtitled (e.g. The Full Monty for the US market). As a native English speaker dubbing drives me nuts. I want to see Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon subtitled not dubbed. Why the preference? I know the French are super paranoid about the cultural hegemony of English. Is this the case elsewhere?
- johanj 10y agoInteresting. I had the opposite perception. Most Europeans I know (Scandinavians, Germans, Dutch, British) prefer subtitles on movies (even when they are foreign non-English movies), whereas the impression I have gotten of Americans through e.g. news broadcasts and talkshows, have been that everything is dubbed into English (for example interviews from the EU parliament or other foreign countries). I am sure it depends on the context, but now I wonder if there are any statistics on when things are dubbed vs subtitled.
- ajmurmann 10y agoI am not sure if Europeans in general prefer subtitles. Most of my friend in Germany do. However, they are younger and well educated. Most people from my parent's generation probably would prefer dubs. It turns out that almost everything in Germany gets dubbed. You really gotta go out of your way if you want to see subs.
- cdcarter 10y agoI wouldn't say news broadcasts and talk shows are a fair comparison here, as those are often watched passively (while cooking, cleaning, getting ready, chatting with friends) as opposed to film or dramatic television which are usually watched actively.
- vacri 10y agoDubbing also destroys immersion, which is bad for a story, but irrelevant for an interview. Rare is the dub where all the voice actors get all the emotion in the voice correct.
- TomMarius 10y agoI'm Czech and a very large portion of the country doesn't speak any other language (not even Russian or German) at all, and they don't suffer from it at all.
- int_19h 10y agoI'm curious; I get why it's "even German", given that they're an economically prosperous neighbor with jobs etc. But why "even Russian", today?
- vacri 10y agoI imagine that there's quite a lot of Czechs over the age of 27.
- TomMarius 10y agoWhat vacri said; also, nowadays, some people choose Russian (you have to pick one foreign language that you'll learn next 7 years - parents do the choice) because it's relatively simple compared to English for Slavic native speakers.
- corford 10y agoThe French have a robust film industry
- throwaway7645 10y agoI wonder how many are actually seen stateside. I know Amelie was a French film, but that's where my knowledge ends.
- corford 10y agoIf it's anything like the UK, not many. Which is a shame because they produce some fantastic stuff. For a solid introduction to a few, the best film selection of the Cesars is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Award_for_Best_Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Award_for_Best_Film
- literallycancer 10y agoA lot of small countries have a local film industry, but don't expect large-scale unlimited budget productions like you'd see in Hollywood. Generally, if you are a small country, you have to pour a lot of money into the industry to be able to even compete with Hollywood, otherwise the small market size doesn't make it worthwhile to produce anything. It's essentially the state paying for a public good, where the good is culture in your own language.
- progre 10y agoSwedish. Edit: The market for scandinavian language entertainment is perhaps 15 milion people. Not a lot and theese industries is in no way a golden ticket to unlimited fortunes but the output is pretty consintently high quality stuff.
- throwaway7645 10y agoI absolutely adore the melodic way Swedish and Norwegian sound (I know they are mutually intelligible). I also like Finnish, but i know that is Uralic and completely different. I really wish I could pick up the language. Is there anything high quality outside crime dramas and the like?
- kqr 10y agoBooks. Plenty of really good classics around. If you want simpler Swedish, perhaps start with Astrid Lindgren (children's books primarily) or Tove Jansson (also children's books in the book stores, but they have many undertexts and are appreciated on more levels the older you get).
- throwaway7645 10y agoWhat's your preferred way to get Swedish books in the U.S.?
- progre 10y agoThere may be some kind of bay of disreputable sailors where such items may be available for download
- progre 10y agoIf you can get your hands on some Lars Molin films I can warmly recomend them. Usualy small comedic dramas in rural settings.
- throwaway7645 10y ago