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jubilant-barter t1_jegz61r wrote

Reply to comment by Asha_Brea in Why do so few American movies let foreign language speaking characters speak their own language? Why does everything have to be in English... by _wyfern_

In a lot of countries, it's hilarous. They'll overdub the audio, and only have two actors.

So you can still hear the original dialogue, it's just that one guy and one woman are rapid-fire and emotionlessly speaking Russian or Tamil or whatever over the other sounds.

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Asha_Brea t1_jeh0ov7 wrote

I search for subtitled screenings rather than dubs, so I haven't experienced that.

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Alive_Ice7937 t1_jeh14pe wrote

It's weird because the lips don't match the dialogue in the original audio anyway.

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