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Nolan is to mumble-mouthed movie dialogue what David Carson was to illegible typography. Trend isn’t even the right word, though - it’s a fad, like grunge typography in the 1990s or the bizarre orange-teal color grading of movies during the 2000s.īut the other factor - which Pearson addresses directly - is the singular influence of Christopher Nolan. (Have I ever mentioned how fucking much I love Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite? My god, what a masterpiece.) So of course, you can, in theory, enjoy a movie recorded in your own language even if you can’t make out all or even a lot of the dialogue. Most people can thoroughly enjoy movies recorded in a foreign language with subtitles. I think part of this is a trend that might have been inevitable, as the language of cinema inevitably became the lingua franca of the world. Of complaints about dialogue intelligibility. Sound community, since they’re the ones who often bear the brunt Others spoke openly about the topic, and it quickly becameĪpparent that this is a familiar subject among the folks in the Only under the condition that they remain anonymous. Refused to talk to me, saying it would be “professional suicide” Of whom have won Oscars for their work on some of Hollywood’sīiggest films, to get to the bottom of what’s going on.
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