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Why Star Wars Was Dubbed into the Navajo Language | Native America | PBS
PBS via YouTube ^ | November 9, 2023 | PBS Staff

Posted on 11/10/2023 7:15:42 PM PST by thecodont

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/3L5EoQm | #NativeAmericaPBS

May the Fourth is a special night at the West Winds Drive-In in Glendale Arizona where Manny Wheeler is screening Star Wars, dubbed into Navajo. It's one of many innovative ways of preserving Native languages. Stream Native America Season 2 on pbs.org and the PBS App: https://to.pbs.org/3L5EoQm

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: navajo; starwars

1 posted on 11/10/2023 7:15:42 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

I know it’s a matter of preference but I like subtitles much better than dubbing. I prefer hearing the actors voices even if one doesn’t understand what is being said.


2 posted on 11/10/2023 7:39:25 PM PST by xp38
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To: thecodont

Yep, might as well dumb down every culture out there with make believe entertainment.

A couple of my gearhead buddies and I went to the first star wars movie in 77. We probably should have gotten tossed out for laughing at serious moments. The finale was hillarious: incredible spaceships fighting like Spitfires and ME109s. A ‘death star’ with totally inadequate defenses.


3 posted on 11/10/2023 8:01:02 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: xp38

I am with you. Subtitles every time for me. Sometimes you will actually get more details with subtitles than a crappy dubbing job. You are losing parts of the story because they are trying to cram the english dub job into mouth movements.

Freegards


4 posted on 11/10/2023 8:09:33 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: thecodont

dubbed into the Navajo language ...

to keep the secrets of Star Wars from the Japanese


5 posted on 11/10/2023 8:22:01 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: Zuriel
A couple of my gearhead buddies and I went to the first star wars movie in 77. We probably should have gotten tossed out for laughing at serious moments. The finale was hillarious: incredible spaceships fighting like Spitfires and ME109s. A ‘death star’ with totally inadequate defenses.

Star Wars III (1983) was especially hilarious, with those AWACs, or whatever those little critters were called, running around.

6 posted on 11/10/2023 8:28:07 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

**Star Wars III (1983) was especially hilarious,**

I don’t think saw any of the sequels, just clips in recent years.

Just last night I watched an about 10 minute long critique of airline movies, by an airline captain. I had no idea there were so many ridiculous story lines in airline movies.

And I thought the Airport one with Jack Lemmon and Karen Black was pathetic:

A highjacked luxury 747 belly flops at sea, fortunately in less than 100’ deep water. Lemmon’s character assures the passengers that they can hold out for hours because the aircraft is pressurized....

How is it pressurized?... by running jet engines.

The Navy raises the aircraft using underwater balloons for raising heavy steel subs and ships, but the balloon system barely can raise a jumbo jet that weighs much less.

Many ‘serious’ movies need misinformation disclosures in their trailers.


7 posted on 11/10/2023 8:50:51 PM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: thecodont

Uhhh...so white liberals would have something else to bitch about?


8 posted on 11/10/2023 8:54:57 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Zuriel

There’s a lot of sloppy research by screenwriters. For example, in “Swing Kids,” the Nazi invasion of Poland comes before the Sudeten crisis—kind of like having the Battle of Fort Sumter coming before the Dred Scott decision.


9 posted on 11/10/2023 8:58:46 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Zuriel
And I thought the Airport one with Jack Lemmon and Karen Black was pathetic:

The was Airport ‘77, and it was ridiculous. Those movies got worse with every sequel, but Airport ‘75 was actually pretty good. That was the one with Charlton Heston and Karen Black. It had some issues, but was far more realistic and plausible than the 747 as submarine in Airport ‘77. And the original Airport was actually very realistic, other than George Kennedy’s sometimes over the top character.

If you want to see a good movie about commercial aviation that doesn’t insult the audience’s intelligence, look for “The Pilot” starring Cliff Robertson. It came out in the early 70s, and has great photography of airliners in classic liveries during the golden age of commercial aviation. Robertson plays an airline captain who is a closet alcoholic, and how the movie depicts the airlines and aviation in general is very accurate. Pilot to ATC communications and terminology used are correct in every detail, which was shocking when I saw it since so many movies don’t even care about depicting any of that accurately. I’m a pilot and worked in airport management and airport operations for many years, so it drives me up the wall when movies don’t even try to depict aviation in a true to life way. The Pilot is a good movie, but even if you’re not that interested in the plot it’s worth seeing just to see how movies about aviation can be made entertaining without dumbing them down.

10 posted on 11/10/2023 10:57:20 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: thecodont

Ten percent of all indigenous people in the USA live in Arizona. Navajo, NOT Spanish, is the second most common language used in the State.


11 posted on 11/11/2023 12:03:43 AM PST by earglasses (I was blind, and now I hear...)
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Driving through Navaho territory, I picked up an AM station broadcasting their language. It sounds like a lot of glottal starts and stops with grunts in between. Then you come to “Johnny’s Fish Camp”!


12 posted on 11/11/2023 12:33:12 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: xp38

I know it’s a matter of preference but I like subtitles much better than dubbing. I prefer hearing the actors voices even if one doesn’t understand what is being said.
*******
I’m with you! I’m hearing impaired-not totally deaf, but I DO wear hearing aids.
I have the CC on all the time on the TV. I can’t turn the volume up loud enough for me. It’s closed captioning AND headphones, even with the hearing aids.


13 posted on 11/11/2023 6:37:25 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Fiji Hill

I like the old movie “The Ten Commandments”, but the screenwriters liberties taken with the story are numerous.

For example, Moses killed the Egyptian taskmaster, buried the body, and thought no one knew it, until the next day when Hebrew slaves mentioned it to him. He promptly fled Egypt.

In the movie, he is captured shortly after the murder, and sentenced to die by a slow death in the desert.

However, in order to make a 3 hour movie, Moses life up to that event needed some filling in where the scriptures are silent. So making Moses a general in Pharaoh’s army, and an architectual engineer, was as good a guess as anything else the writers could dream up.


14 posted on 11/11/2023 7:13:33 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel
You might recall that at the start of the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments, Cecil DeMille appeared on the screen and explained that he would be taking dramatic license to turn the Bible story into a good movie. He probably did that to stave off some of the flak he would get for making changes in the Biblical account.

I also like the 1923 version, which I saw in the theater at the La Brea Tar Pits, accompanied by a veteran theater organist who knew the score by heart. This movie tells the Biblical story and then tells a story showing how the Ten Commandments apply in our modern world.

15 posted on 11/11/2023 9:00:50 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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