Taking bold steps into a shiny new future
Taking bold steps into a shiny new future
Originally uploaded by itsjustanalias. The day before yesterday we went to the cinema because the weather was a bit dodgy. There’s a multiplex about 25 minutes walk away, and after looking over the listings in the sunday paper (La Nueva España this time) we decided on 21:Blackjack. There’s not so much in the way of V.O. here it seems (that would be the version with Spanish subtitles) so we got the dubbed version. Fortunately I read the book this is (so so loosely) based on a while back and the opening Monty Hall problem is a common theme on one of the geeky blogs I read so I was in a good position to follow it. So with the caveat that I missed about a third of the dialogue I thought it was a bit lame, the drama seemed shoehorned in and the relentless Vegasness of it just felt morally grubby.
Yesterday however, was a different kettle of fish. At the philharmonic theatre they’re putting on Lunes del cine (Mondays of cinema) and this month it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s World War, a selection of the master’s wartime work, it’s free entry too and that meant it was almost full. Last night it was Saboteur! This was much harder to follow, there seems to have been much more dialogue in old films, or this one at any rate (FSM help me if I get to watch Adam’s Rib or The Philadelphia Story). Some of the dubbing seemed to have been done from the bottom of a well, and the rate of some of the more patriotic speeches would have been hard enough to get in English, it’s harder still when you can’t use any lip reading to help you guess the sounds. Still, the ending was classic, a chase including a bad guy invading a cinema screen, improbable rescue notes and a final showdown in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
The chap introducing the film, I guess in keeping with the pacy dialogue, spoke at a fair lick too, I kept up better than Liz I think, because I knew a lot of the names he was using. His big joke was that handcuffs (esposas) is the same as a group of wives (esposas). Well I guess you had to be there…
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