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Reading: "Will of the Whisps" (heavy revisions)
Music: Utopia's Bootleg Series
Link o' the Day:Le ZOMBIE
Most of tonight was spent doing some finishing touches to the Daws Butler book on voice acting. A couple of weeks ago I did some research on the laying out of such a book and think I have something which both the author and the editor will approve of. It was a little odd, however, looking through the section on dialects. They looked like such stereotypes that I wonder how offensive such accents are to some people. Granted, most voice acting is done off-camera so there isn't that feeling of mockery when someone like say, Harry Shear, does an Indian accent. Why not find Indian voice actors?
In Japan where anime voice actors enjoy a stature on a level of pop star, they will also often use a heavily-accented Japanese speaker saying lines in English or German. A few will use native voice actors to dub in, but if the "star" of the anime is bilingual, they just coach him or her into saying the foreign words--possibly without any more knowledge than how to pronounce.
It reminds me of a movie, "Tea House of the August Moon" starring, of all people, Marlon Brando as a Japanese interpreter in a small Okinawan fishing village. He squints a lot, speaks very short Japanese phrases and his "interpretations" tend not to match the native dialogue of the Japanese at all. Still, it's a good movie and I recommend it.
Meandering rant mode-off
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A few days ago I talked about Bob "Wilson" Tucker. For those who don't know, he started a fanzine back in 1939 called Le ZOMBIE. Well thanks to the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, you can read the first 12 issues of Le ZOMBIE! Be forewarned that these are scans of original paper pages, but it's still some fascinating reading. Also at this page or some recent editions of Bob's e-zine, e-zombie.
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Here's a quote I've never come across before:
Wow. I think that just about covers it. Everyone can go home now. Put the stools on top of the tables on your way out. Cabs to the left. Trains to the right.
Okay, back to work for me.
Cheers!
Music: Utopia's Bootleg Series
Link o' the Day:Le ZOMBIE
Most of tonight was spent doing some finishing touches to the Daws Butler book on voice acting. A couple of weeks ago I did some research on the laying out of such a book and think I have something which both the author and the editor will approve of. It was a little odd, however, looking through the section on dialects. They looked like such stereotypes that I wonder how offensive such accents are to some people. Granted, most voice acting is done off-camera so there isn't that feeling of mockery when someone like say, Harry Shear, does an Indian accent. Why not find Indian voice actors?
In Japan where anime voice actors enjoy a stature on a level of pop star, they will also often use a heavily-accented Japanese speaker saying lines in English or German. A few will use native voice actors to dub in, but if the "star" of the anime is bilingual, they just coach him or her into saying the foreign words--possibly without any more knowledge than how to pronounce.
It reminds me of a movie, "Tea House of the August Moon" starring, of all people, Marlon Brando as a Japanese interpreter in a small Okinawan fishing village. He squints a lot, speaks very short Japanese phrases and his "interpretations" tend not to match the native dialogue of the Japanese at all. Still, it's a good movie and I recommend it.
Meandering rant mode-off
* * *
A few days ago I talked about Bob "Wilson" Tucker. For those who don't know, he started a fanzine back in 1939 called Le ZOMBIE. Well thanks to the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society, you can read the first 12 issues of Le ZOMBIE! Be forewarned that these are scans of original paper pages, but it's still some fascinating reading. Also at this page or some recent editions of Bob's e-zine, e-zombie.
* * *
Here's a quote I've never come across before:
"Science Fiction is the improbable, made possible. Fantasy is the impossible, made probable." - Ted Sturgeon
Wow. I think that just about covers it. Everyone can go home now. Put the stools on top of the tables on your way out. Cabs to the left. Trains to the right.
Okay, back to work for me.
Cheers!
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