What would you do if they dubbed american movies in australian?

[Peegee]

Because I am trying to watch 'crouching tiger hidden dragon' in cantonese and it's driving me !?>#22222 -- the original dialogue is in mandarin and to see it dubbed over in another chinese language both confuses and enrages me.

Granted 'american' and 'australian' is not the same as 'cantonese' and 'mandarin' in difference, but that's about the closest I can imagine -- the languages are basically the same buy people pronounce words differently.

So yeah, watching say, Arnold Swarzenegger talking like an Aussie. Am I out of line?

I think not.

[Samuraid]

I would have fun watching movies dubbed into Aussie. That would probably result in some quite hilarious phrases.

[Shoeberto]

Arnold Schwarzennegar is an Aussie, silly. Put another shrimp on the barbie, Arnie! Ha ha!

[Lon611]

i think European and American English would be a better anology (no offense to australians) but to me at least, europeans tend to not only have an accent, but have a different set of vocabulary. at least in my opinion. or maybe thats just bollocks :rolleyes2

neways, id laugh hysterically. the end. *goes to sleep*

[Cruise Control]

It would be very entertaining, like british comedies!

[nik0tine]

Arnold Schwarzennegar is an Aussie, silly. Put another shrimp on the barbie, Arnie! Ha ha!
He's Austrian. :p

eh... I guess that could be an "Aussie", but only very loosely.

[Shoeberto]

He's Austrian. :p

eh... I guess that could be an "Aussie", but only very loosely.
"That's a lovely accent there...New Jersey?"
"It's Austrian."
"Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!"

[Dreddz]

It would just remind me of that Snake Catcher from Australia, damn he was the coolest

[xtreme112]

time for my comment ^_^

Firstly, Mandarin and Cantonese ARE NOT the same thing, I study mandarin and I've heard cantonese, there is a really big difference.

I would agree that it would be pretty funny translating it, but it would also be very pointless, you know not all of us australians talk with a dumb accent that the americans try to imitate, and NOBODY puts shrimps on barbies!
-I hate to burst the bubble, but they're just the facts...

[Mitch]

He's Austrian. :p

eh... I guess that could be an "Aussie", but only very loosely.
"That's a lovely accent there...New Jersey?"
"It's Austrian."
"Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!"
shut up, Harry.....or maybe Lloyd

[Peegee]

time for my comment ^_^

Firstly, Mandarin and Cantonese ARE NOT the same thing, I study mandarin and I've heard cantonese, there is a really big difference.

I would agree that it would be pretty funny translating it, but it would also be very pointless, you know not all of us australians talk with a dumb accent that the americans try to imitate, and NOBODY puts shrimps on barbies!
-I hate to burst the bubble, but they're just the facts...

There is a huge difference -- much more between any 'dialect' (if any) of english, which is why I had to resort to accents.

[Yamaneko]

Does that mean Crocodile Dundee would make sense?

[Kakashi509]

Does that mean Crocodile Dundee would make sense?
I don't think anyone can understand that movie

[ThroneofDravaris]

Wouldn’t work. Not even Australians can understand the butchery of the english lanugage they use here. You might as well get the actors to do a voice track after drinking hydrofluoric acid.

[Mo-Nercy]

Would work for me. *is Australian*

Australian english is a naturally smart-arse langage. If someone was to ask an Aussie a question, it's likely that they'll say what they're NOT and then let you work out the rest. For example:

Q: How are you?
A: Not bad.

Q: How long did that take?
A: Aw, not long.

Q: How much was that?
A: Wasn't cheap!

And they're PRAWNS, dammit! PRAWNS! wtf is a shrimp!? Bloody drongos.

[Mitch]

I'd kill myself *is a Kiwi*

[Meow]

It would be very entertaining, like british comedies!

Half of British comedy for Americans is the accent. i mean, it's not like any of us get the jokes.

[Mitch]

Aren't a lot of British programmes remade for ignorant Americans??
(Kidding, I love all the Americans I know)

Like Men Behaving Badly and The Office

[Project G]

I would piss myself with laughter, it's funny as it is with the dubbed martial arts films.

And Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, the changed it to sorcerors stone

[Devourment]

It gives you something to do then doesn't it?! Learn Cantonese.

[WildRaubtier]

Bloody drongos.
I reckon.

[Peegee]

It gives you something to do then doesn't it?! Learn Cantonese.

Knoh sic gong jun wah

(I know speak cantonese)

[Rye]

It would just remind me of that Snake Catcher from Australia, damn he was the coolest

Steve Irwin? :D He's awesome.

[crazybayman]

I think it'd be pretty pointless to dub it to another english dialect. The accents, and dialects gives the audience more feel to the atmosphere, of the place where the movie is set.

For example: Braveheart was done with Scotsmen, englishmen, and Irishmen. Wouldn't it be rather dumb if it were done (or dubbed ) in a North American accent? Mel Gibson did work hard to nail down a Scottish accent after all, (although it wouldn't surprise me if many Scots feel that it sounds fake). The reason Mel did that, is because its better than speaking in his Aussie, or his North American accent. It gave the viewers more atmosphere to the setting.

Likewise with a movie like Tombstone: They did the best western and southerner accents they could. It be really stupid if were done, or dubbed in Australian, or British. It would take away from the setting and atmosphere of the story.

The dialect of English used gives you a sense of the location the story is set in.

[Meat Puppet]

I would need subtitles to watch a movie dubbed in Australian. For example, I went to buy a loaf of bread yesterday, and I went home with the mispurchase of a piglegged prostitute in a barrel. I'm really no good with foreign languages.

[Lon611]

Half of British comedy for Americans is the accent. i mean, it's not like any of us get the jokes.

[-N-]

Wouldn’t work. Not even Australians can understand the butchery of the english lanugage they use here. You might as well get the actors to do a voice track after drinking hydrofluoric acid.http://snf.stanford.edu/Safety/AboutHF.html

[Mitch]

I think it'd be pretty pointless to dub it to another english dialect. The accents, and dialects gives the audience more feel to the atmosphere, of the place where the movie is set.

For example: Braveheart was done with Scotsmen, englishmen, and Irishmen. Wouldn't it be rather dumb if it were done (or dubbed ) in a North American accent? Mel Gibson did work hard to nail down a Scottish accent after all, (although it wouldn't surprise me if many Scots feel that it sounds fake). The reason Mel did that, is because its better than speaking in his Aussie, or his North American accent. It gave the viewers more atmosphere to the setting.

Likewise with a movie like Tombstone: They did the best western and southerner accents they could. It be really stupid if were done, or dubbed in Australian, or British. It would take away from the setting and atmosphere of the story.

The dialect of English used gives you a sense of the location the story is set in.

I think you are taking it a little seriously.

[GooeyToast]

What could i do?


~Keep it gooey~

[crazybayman]

I think it'd be pretty pointless to dub it to another english dialect. The accents, and dialects gives the audience more feel to the atmosphere, of the place where the movie is set.

For example: Braveheart was done with Scotsmen, englishmen, and Irishmen. Wouldn't it be rather dumb if it were done (or dubbed ) in a North American accent? Mel Gibson did work hard to nail down a Scottish accent after all, (although it wouldn't surprise me if many Scots feel that it sounds fake). The reason Mel did that, is because its better than speaking in his Aussie, or his North American accent. It gave the viewers more atmosphere to the setting.

Likewise with a movie like Tombstone: They did the best western and southerner accents they could. It be really stupid if were done, or dubbed in Australian, or British. It would take away from the setting and atmosphere of the story.

The dialect of English used gives you a sense of the location the story is set in.

I think you are taking it a little seriously.

Oh! Its a joke then?!? of course!! haha!! hehe....hoho....heehee.....neh

*shrugs*

[Loony BoB]

Bloody drongos.
I reckon.
I wasn't aware "I reckon." was Australian. As far as I know - since I use it all the time too - it's just something that was used a couple of decades ago and Antipodeans just never really let it go.

Anyone who saw my tGA post with the Australian dragons should know how I feel on this issue.

[Lindy]

Every sentence would be a question, thanks to that damned Australian Question Intonation.

Gives me your clothes, your boots, and your <i>motorcyle</i>?
Come with me if you want to <i>live</i>?

Or imagine romantic films.

I'm sorry I ever left you?
I really mean it, I love you?
Lets never be apart?

[boris no no]

what if all actors were kangeroos and they kicked everyone in the head O__o

[Cruise Control]

xDThen Jurrasic Park would be even worse!

[ThroneofDravaris]

Wouldn’t work. Not even Australians can understand the butchery of the english lanugage they use here. You might as well get the actors to do a voice track after drinking hydrofluoric acid.http://snf.stanford.edu/Safety/AboutHF.html

Yes, I realize that it would kill them instantly. I couldn’t think of a better example (nice info though)

Anyway, they actually do dub some America commercials over here into Australian; I guess people think it makes them more ‘accessible’ to the audience.

And yes, it sucks.

[Kittay]

He's Austrian. :p

eh... I guess that could be an "Aussie", but only very loosely.
"That's a lovely accent there...New Jersey?"
"It's Austrian."
"Austria! Well, then. G'day mate! Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!"

Hahaha I love that quote.

Even more so since I have a Jersey accent. :p

[Itsunari 2000]

Lol Braveheart in Australian ...:)

William Wallace : Look Hamish , see how the cowardly English flee the field!!!
Hamish : Bonzer !

Personally though I think it's absurd that anyone would dub over standard English with respective accents , for the sake of authenticity ( ie. 14th century Scotland in this case)