Synopsis: Dubbing can make a film or TV show accessible to a whole new audience that previously didn’t have access… but at what cost if it isn’t done well? Ardath takes an uncomfortably close look at the dubbing work on the Pitch Black DVD to try to answer this.
Note: This was originally written sometime in early-mid 2002, and then was lost during AoVD’s very first site outage, when we lost a few months of posts to the vagaries of our former webhosting service. I dusted it off and reposted it in October 2003, and it vanished into the depths of the board where it has lain dormant since. But if you’ve ever wondered why cinephiles tend to insist on subtitles rather than dubs, most of the time, this might help explain. —A.
Category: Non-Fiction
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