Subj : Re: Serenity and Chinese To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 15:54:59 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John I wrote: > Jim Larson wrote: > >> John I wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote: >>> >>>> John I wrote: >>>> >>>>> Jim Larson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Serenity and Chinese >>>>>> From: Jim Larson >>>>>> Newsgroups: alt.tv.farscape >>>>>> >>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Jim Larson wrote in >>>>>>> news:Xns96E4C20DFE5783v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Anyone know how well the actors were able to pull of the Chinese bits >>>>>>>> in Firefly? Usually they had to say no more than a couple of words, >>>>>>>> so maybe it's not that bad. In Serenity, there is a small bit where >>>>>>>> River curses(?) at length and probably pretty creatively in Chinese. >>>>>>>> I wonder if Summer Glau came even close to pulling it off. Must query >>>>>>>> Ted when he's seen it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> They had a specialist translator/teacher. I've seen some outakes >>>>>>> where >>>>>>> they had more than a little trouble. I'm not really good enough to >>>>>>> tell. I do know that there are certain sounds that are very unusual >>>>>>> for English speakers as they don't appear in English and different >>>>>>> ways of pronouncing certain letters. The best examples are a 6th >>>>>>> vowel n which is a sort of ew noise and h which is from the front of >>>>>>> the mouth rather than the back of the throat. Please bare in mind >>>>>>> however that I have only had two lessons. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll have no backtalk. Translate, damn you! >>>>>> >>>>>> *smacks Ted around as he alternates between saying "My sister" and "My >>>>>> daughter."*[1] >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Jim >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] Chinatown was on the other day. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That movie really captures the tone and look of the seventies. >>>>> >>>> >>>> (Kind of misses its intended period by a few decades then.) >>>> >>> >>> Wait. I mistook it for "The French Connection". >>> >> >> Both are Yay!able. >> > > I haven't seen Chinatown. It seems I must. I haven't seen either of them. If I add them to my netflix queue now, I'll see them sometime in the next 1.5 years. -- Tyler Trafford If built in great numbers, motels will be used for nothing but illegal purposes. -- J. Edgar Hoover .