Worse: martial arts movies in Chinese context with Chinese actors speaking different languages at each other. eg Crouching Tiger. Horrid.
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@starsandrobots Cantonese for Leung and Mandarin for Zhang. Drives me crazy. You can’t shoot someone speak English & someone reply in Greek. -
@skinnylatte yeah! + occasional Japanese ya? I was just not sure if that was a ..thing. Or how an audience was supposed to take it. -
@skinnylatte but people do actually watch it this way? and do most people mostly get what's going on or? -
@starsandrobots what’s weirder: recent fad to get Japanese, Korean, Chinese top actors to act in same movies. Acting in language that
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@starsandrobots crouching tiger was the worst offender: Mainland Mandarin, Malaysian Mandarin, Taiwanese Mandarin, Cantonese MandarinThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots but I am also sure my opposition is entirely due to my dislike of Cantonese :) -
@skinnylatte I really gotta get on studying a language besides Cantonese ;) -
@starsandrobots@skinnylatte come over to the Mandarin side! -
@corbett speaking of, how's Mandarin at the pole? -
@starsandrobots good studying time, though no native speakers (Also German movie nights, and Spanish conversation meetups with natives)
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@starsandrobots Possibly the most interesting film for polyglots I've ever seen.@skinnylatteThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots IIRC, the language shifts were to blur the lines between what was memory & present & future & their contexts.@skinnylatteThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@starsandrobots that movie uses Japanese too at times. & the characters shift & break context, deliberately. Fascinating film@skinnylatteThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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