I will be brutally honest, I don't understand why English voice actors of anime are even considered celebrities in any way. Half the comments is still kissing the ass of this bitch, like she is some goddess.
Extremely weebery is cringe. Simping for the runoff of weeb culture, like some slightly coloured American bitch who makes annoying voices is even worse.
What I've always heard was that it was a contract issue that when they purchased the rights to distribute the anime, somehow they fucked up and that didn't include any of the script so they weren't allowed to use that to translate it and thus had to create a script all on their own so each day it was whoever came in first dictated how a scene went and they just had to base on something related to ghosts to fit the shows theme
Direction and editing is responsible for almost everything about a performance. My goto example is in Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a monkey. That monkey has lots of screen time. He hits his marks, says his lines, and even has a dramatic death scene. Now does that monkey deserve an oscar or do you think maybe the monkey's handlers were involved at some point? Actors are not so different from this monkey. If they're not giving you what you want then you need to try again until they do. If they can't do what you want, you need to edit around it.
Another example is Terminator 2. The entirety of John Connor's (Edward Furlong's) dialog was redubbed by another actor. Allegedly this was due to his voice changing during production, but I suspect it could have been because of performance weakness. The redub was expensive and hurt feelings, but it was what needed to be done. The movie is still a classic.
Compare that to The Phantom Menace where every moment of a child actor being on screen is pure suffering. At this point there's a cottage industry of pointing out the directorial failures of George Lucas so I don't think I need to go into it, but the contrast is stark.
I never knew that about T2. Is that true? That's a hell of a dub job if so; I've seen the movie so many times--it's my favorite action movie of all time--but I could never tell.
I just rewatched a bit of the director's commentary (it's been a while) and it turns out I misremembered. Edward Furlong's voice did change during the shooting, but he redubbed his own lines and it was only about half the movie.
"Hey, when you're giving the new guy all the info he needs, you're training your replacement. Don't do that."
I will be brutally honest, I don't understand why English voice actors of anime are even considered celebrities in any way. Half the comments is still kissing the ass of this bitch, like she is some goddess.
Extremely weebery is cringe. Simping for the runoff of weeb culture, like some slightly coloured American bitch who makes annoying voices is even worse.
many actors have the director to blame for poor performances, and the director usually gets away with it Scott free. Jake Lloyd comes to mind.
Steven Foster, a Sentai Filmworks director, was so awful at his job that he got himself blackballed from the business.
But people continue to sing his praises, because he just happened to be the director of Ghost Stories.
Also wasn't "the Japanese studio let us dub however we wanted because they weren't expecting the show to perform well anyway" a big fat lie?
No idea, but it's what I've always heard.
What I've always heard was that it was a contract issue that when they purchased the rights to distribute the anime, somehow they fucked up and that didn't include any of the script so they weren't allowed to use that to translate it and thus had to create a script all on their own so each day it was whoever came in first dictated how a scene went and they just had to base on something related to ghosts to fit the shows theme
Sounds like what happened to Samurai Pizza Cats.
That show was one-in-a-million. Should NOT have turned out anywhere NEAR as fun as it did.
why do you need a person to voice a dog?
Frank Welker made a career voicing animals.
We're in a new age now. We need authentic dog (Dogg?) representation here.
So did Mel Blanc (RIP)
Direction and editing is responsible for almost everything about a performance. My goto example is in Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a monkey. That monkey has lots of screen time. He hits his marks, says his lines, and even has a dramatic death scene. Now does that monkey deserve an oscar or do you think maybe the monkey's handlers were involved at some point? Actors are not so different from this monkey. If they're not giving you what you want then you need to try again until they do. If they can't do what you want, you need to edit around it.
Another example is Terminator 2. The entirety of John Connor's (Edward Furlong's) dialog was redubbed by another actor. Allegedly this was due to his voice changing during production, but I suspect it could have been because of performance weakness. The redub was expensive and hurt feelings, but it was what needed to be done. The movie is still a classic.
Compare that to The Phantom Menace where every moment of a child actor being on screen is pure suffering. At this point there's a cottage industry of pointing out the directorial failures of George Lucas so I don't think I need to go into it, but the contrast is stark.
George really needed to bring in someone who was good at working with kids
I never knew that about T2. Is that true? That's a hell of a dub job if so; I've seen the movie so many times--it's my favorite action movie of all time--but I could never tell.
I just rewatched a bit of the director's commentary (it's been a while) and it turns out I misremembered. Edward Furlong's voice did change during the shooting, but he redubbed his own lines and it was only about half the movie.
"He's a ferryman" I guess my knack for nearly useless knowledge finally comes in handy.
Knowing that Charon is the one that ferries you across the river Styx in Greek mythology, because neither of them had that info.
According to The Mythology Guy, that name is pronounced the same as "Karen."
Imagine THAT performance.
Great, more cheap untapped talent for my indie animation