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I rented Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this weekend and enjoyed it. It has an interesting story line and very nice music. In a thread from a few months ago the transliteration of Chinese into English was discussed. But this version, rather than using subtitles, was dubbed in English and I was amazed by how accurate the facial movements (in Chinese) were with the spoken English words. It was nothing like the horrid dubbing in older movies like Godzilla. I almost thought that they used computers to change their mouth movements, but you can't tell they didn't.
So what's up with this? Did the translators get better, or did they drastically change the script, and thereby the meaning, of the movie?
And secondly, I noticed on a second viewing that they rarely blinked and it looked very unnatural to me. Is there some Chinese folkway making it disrespectful to blink at someone?
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i don't know about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but many foreign movies now, have the actors "say" the lines in english.. and one or two frames (especially close ups) are added to film for foriegn distribution.
then, when the lines are dubbed.. the mouth movements "work" -- the actors don't have to get the lines perfect to have the dubbing look good.. so it doesn't matter if theys say fright or flight.. the shape of the mouth is the same.. and the professional who dub just work at getting the word right, and matched to the the actors lines..
since many film earn more in foreign distrubution than they do in home markets, its a cost effective decision-- some time there will be "takes" in several languages.
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Thanks, Helen, that makes sense. At first, that seems like it would take a long time, but in thinking back, when they start screaming at the beginning of a battle, the words didn't fit, so they probably didn't re-film the fight scenes. I guess it would have just been used for the close-up conversations.
That still doesn't explain why they didn't blink, though.
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Probably because the producer didn't blink at the exorbitant fees they charged for acting in his movie ...
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Prior to seeing LOTR in the last couple of weeks I rated Crouching Tiger as perhaps my all time favourite movie. Recommend it to anyone needing to destress. Both my wife and I commented how relaxed we felt when we came out of the cinema. This effect may be lost on the small screen however.
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This effect may be lost on the small screen however.Oh, no. The music was so soothing. I felt very relaxed and peaceful when I finished watching it. I felt like making a Zen garden. 
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